{"id":17753,"date":"2026-02-02T06:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17753"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:19:58","slug":"mit-linguistics-lsa-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/02\/02\/mit-linguistics-lsa-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ LSA 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>James Cooper Roberts<\/strong> (3rd year): An Agreement-interpretation puzzle concerning Indo-European fraction partitives<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Ad\u00e8le H\u00e9not-Mortier<\/strong> (PhD 2025)[Queen Mary University\u00a0of London]: Oddness, logical compatibility and granularity<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Devon Denny<\/strong> (SM 2022)[UCSD]: Dine? Bizaad (Navajo) Q-Particle Distribution is Sensitive to Information Structure<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Luwen Cao,<strong> Zhiming Bao<\/strong> (PhD 1990)[National University of Singapore], \u00a0Lei Feng, Tih-Shih Lee: Stratified Analysis of Voice Parameters in Cognitive Impairment: Evidence for Population-Specific Linguistic Biomarkers<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Tanya Bondarenko<\/strong> (PhD 2022)[Harvard]: Becoming a strong PCC language: a view from Alabama<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Fulang Chen<\/strong> (PhD 2023), Ka-Fai Yip: Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese?<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Jian-Leat Siah, <strong>Sam Zukoff<\/strong> (PhD 2017)[UCLA], <strong>Feng-fan Hsieh<\/strong> (PhD 2007)[National Tsing Hua University]: Generative Phonetic Modeling of Malay Nasal Harmony<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/strong> (PhD 2021)[University of Ghana], <strong>Ken Hiraiwa<\/strong> (PhD 2005)[Meiji Gakuin University]: Syntax of Concealed Sluicing in Buli<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Madison Enis,\u00a0<strong>Hadas Kotek\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD 2014)[MIT], Li Yuo: What Linguists Know and Your Team Still Doesn\u0092t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Ad\u00e8le H\u00e9not-Mortier (PhD 2025)[Queen Mary University\u00a0of London]: Oddness, logical compatibility and granularity Devon Denny (SM 2022)[UCSD]: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17759,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753\/revisions\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}