MIT linguists had another strong year at the LSA 2017 Annual Meeting, this year held in Austin, TX from January 5th-8th, 2017.
The following department members and recent graduates presented talks and posters:
Athulya Aravind and Kristen Syrett (Rutgers): Gradability and vagueness in the nominal domain: an experimental approach
Lauren Clemens (SUNY Albany), Jessica Coon (PhD ‘10), Carol-Rose Little (Cornell), and Morelia Vázquez Martínez (ITSM): Encoding focus in Ch’ol spontaneous speech
Michel DeGraff: Linguistics, STEM, educational justice and political and economic equality: MIT-Haiti as case study for retooling linguistics
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (PhD ‘14): C-T head-splitting: evidence from Toba Batak
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Ted Levin (PhD ‘15): On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel
Rachel Dudley (UMD), Meredith Rowe (Harvard), Valentine Hacquard (PhD ‘06) and Jeffrey Lidz (UMD): Distributional cues to factivity in the input
Aron Hirsch: Fragments, pseudo-clefts, and ellipsis
Michela Ippolito (PhD ‘02), Angelika Kiss (UToronto), and Tomohiro Yokotama (UToronto): The semantics of object marking in Kinyarwanda
Sudheer Kolachina (S.M. ‘16): Vowel harmony in Telugu
Hadas Kotek (PhD ‘14): Movement and alternatives don’t mix: a new look at intervention effects
Ivona Kučerová (PhD ‘07): Evidence against φ-feature resolution accounts of agreement with DP coordinations
Ted Levin (PhD ‘15): Palauan DOM is a licensing phenomenon
Lilla Magyar: Gemination in loanwords: interaction between perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formed ness
Kevin Tang (Yale) and Andrew Nevins (PhD ‘05): Expectation and lexical retrieval in naturalistic and experimental misperception
Christopher O’Brien: ATB-movement and island effects: an experimental study
Wayne O’Neil: This time is different
Juliet Stanton: Interactions between prenasalized stops and nasal vowels
Coppe van Urk (PhD ‘15): Mixed chains in Dinka
Michael McAuliffe (McGill), Michaela Socolof (McGill), Sarah Mihuc (McGill), Michael Wagner (PhD ‘04), and Morgan Sonderegger (McGill): Montreal Forced Aligner: an accurate and trainable forced aligner using Kaldi
Michelle Yuan: On apparent ergative agreement in Inuktitut
Ryan Sandell (UCLA) and Sam Zukoff: The development of the Germanic preterite system: learnability and the modeling of diachronic morphophonological change
Additionally, Christopher Baron (A prospective puzzle and a possible solution) and Cora Lesure (Phonologically null morphemes and templatic morphology: The case of Chuj (Mayan) ‘h’) presented at SSILA (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) 2017, which was held jointly with the LSA annual meeting.