MIT is well represented at NELS 41, held this weekend (10/23-24) at the University of Pennsylvania. Noam Chomsky will deliver the keynote address, entitled “Should we study Language? If so, how?” The following students and recent alumni will be giving talks:
– Alya Asarina: Neutrality vs. Ambiguity in Resolution by Syncretism: Experimental Evidence and Consequences
– Bronwyn Bjorkman: A Syntactic Correlate of Semantic Asymmetries in Clausal Coordination
– Seth Cable (UMass): The Optionality of EPP in Dholuo
– Jessica Coon (Harvard) and Omer Preminger: Transitivity in Chol: A New Argument for the Split-VP Hypothesis
– Luka Crnic: Pragmatic Enrichment and Concessive Scalarity
– Maria Giavazzi (ENS): Getting Rid of Positional Faithfulness in Stressed Positions: The Phonetic Underpinnings of Prosodic Conditioning