MIT was well represented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Baltimore, January 7-10, 2010.<\/p>\n
The following department members and recent graduates gave talks:<\/p>\n
Gillian Gallagher<\/strong>: Systemic markedness and laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions<\/p>\n Maria Giavazzi<\/strong> and Jonah Katz<\/strong>: Interaction of phonology and morphology in Kinande loanword adaptation<\/p>\n Martina Gracanin-Yuksek<\/strong> (Middle East Technical University): Multiple guises of multiple coordinated wh-questions Peter Graff<\/strong>: Metathesis as asymmetric perceptual realignment Morris Halle<\/strong>: Dylan Thomas’s syllabic verse, polymeters, and Bracketed Grid Theory Jonah Katz<\/strong>: Phonetic similarity in an English hip-hop corpus<\/p>\n Ezra Keshet<\/strong> (University of Michigan): Focus on conditional and quantificational coordination<\/p>\n Giorgio Magri<\/strong> (Jean Nicod Institute): Constraint promotion<\/p>\n Wayne O’Neil<\/strong>: Looking beyond English: Linguistic inquiry for English language learners Omer Preminger<\/strong>: Basque unergatives, case-competition, and ergative as inherent case<\/p>\n Kirill Shklovsky<\/strong>: Syncope as failure to insert a copy vowel: A case of Tseltal (presented at the joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the America)<\/p>\n In addition:<\/p>\n
\n(with Barbara Citko, University of Washington at Seattle)<\/p>\n
\n(with Gregory Scontras, Harvard University)<\/p>\n
\n(with Nigel Fabb, University of Strathclyde)<\/p>\n
\nDaniel J. Ginsberg, Center for Applied Linguistics, and Maya Honda, Wheelock College)<\/p>\n