{"id":1255,"date":"2010-02-08T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2010-02-07T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T02:13:19","slug":"mit-at-bls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/02\/08\/mit-at-bls\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>- Three department members will be speaking at the Georgetown Linguistics Society meeting, Feb 12-14, Washington, DC.  The conference topic is &#8220;Sound, structure, meaning: Explorations at the interface:&#8221;<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/strong>:   The Syntax of Syncretism.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Patrick Jones<\/strong>:   Accounting for the Distribution of -ire within the verbal system of Kinande.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Shigeru Miyagawa<\/strong>:   Causatives and the Syntactic Nature of Words (invited talk).<BR><\/p>\n<p>- MIT will be represented at the Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition, held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Feb. 13-14, by <strong>Adam Albright<\/strong>, whose talk is &#8220;Well-formedness across the word: Modeling markedness interactions,&#8221; and by recent alumnus <strong>Giorgio Magri<\/strong>,  who is presenting &#8220;An online model of the &#8216;early stage&#8217; of the acquisition of phonology.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Martin Hackl<\/strong> will be giving an invited talk at the Conference  on Linguistic Evidence 2010: Empirical, theoretical and computational perspectives, held in T\u00fcbingen, Feb. 11-13.  The title of his talk is &#8220;Processing quantifiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>- Three students presented talks at the Berkeley Linguistics Society meeting (BLS 36) this past weekend, held February 6-7 in Berkeley, CA:<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Young Ah Do<\/strong>: Satisfying output-output faithfulness with excessive morphology: Evidence from Korean acquisition.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Hrayr Khanjian<\/strong>: Negative concord in Western Armenian.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Yasutada Sudo<\/strong>: Person restrictions in Uyghur indexical shifting.<BR> <\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/strong> presented a talk entitled &#8220;The morphological basis of default-to-opposite stress in Nez Perce&#8221; at the 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) held in Ottawa, Feb 5-7. <BR><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>David Pesetsky<\/strong> and <strong>Jonah Katz<\/strong> gave a talk called &#8220;The identity thesis for language and music&#8221; on December 11, 2009, at Sounds and Structures: A workshop on relations between language and music, held in Berlin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>- Three department members will be speaking at the Georgetown Linguistics Society meeting, Feb 12-14, Washington, DC. The conference topic is &#8220;Sound, structure, meaning: Explorations at the interface:&#8221; Bronwyn Bjorkman: The Syntax of Syncretism. Patrick Jones: Accounting for the Distribution of -ire within the verbal system of Kinande. Shigeru Miyagawa: Causatives and the Syntactic Nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}