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MIT Linguistics @ LSA 2026

This year, the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America was held in New Orleans from January 8-11, 2026. Several MIT students and alums gave presentations:

  • James Cooper Roberts (3rd year): An Agreement-interpretation puzzle concerning Indo-European fraction partitives
  • Adèle Hénot-Mortier (PhD 2025)[Queen Mary University of London]: Oddness, logical compatibility and granularity
  • Devon Denny (SM 2022)[UCSD]: Diné Bizaad (Navajo) Q-Particle Distribution is Sensitive to Information Structure
  • Luwen Cao, Zhiming Bao (PhD 1990)[National University of Singapore],  Lei Feng, Tih-Shih Lee: Stratified Analysis of Voice Parameters in Cognitive Impairment: Evidence for Population-Specific Linguistic Biomarkers
  • Tanya Bondarenko (PhD 2022)[Harvard]: Becoming a strong PCC language: a view from Alabama
  • Fulang Chen (PhD 2023), Ka-Fai Yip: Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese?
  • Jian-Leat Siah, Sam Zukoff (PhD 2017)[UCLA], Feng-fan Hsieh (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University]: Generative Phonetic Modeling of Malay Nasal Harmony
  • Abdul-Razak Sulemana (PhD 2021)[University of Ghana], Ken Hiraiwa (PhD 2005)[Meiji Gakuin University]: Syntax of Concealed Sluicing in Buli
  • Madison Enis, Hadas Kotek (PhD 2014)[MIT], Li Yuo: What Linguists Know and Your Team Still Doesn’t