MIT had a strong presence at this year’s LSA meeting, held in Pittsburgh, January 6-9. The following faculty, students, and recent graduates gave presentations:
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- Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/b>: The syntax of inverted conditional antecedents
\n- Jessica Coon<\/b> (Harvard): Prepositions and the perfective: Deriving aspect-based split ergativity
\n- Jessica Coon<\/b> and Omer Preminger<\/b>: Transitivity in Chol:
\nA new argument for the Split VP Hypothesis
\n- Kai von Fintel<\/b> (with David Beaver): Semantics
\nand pragmatics: The creation of an open access journal
\n- Suzanne Flynn<\/b> (with Janet Cohen Sherman,
\nAlex Immerman, Barbara Lust, James Gair, Jordan
\nWhitlock, and Diane Rak): Language in aging and
\ndementia: A pilot study
\n- Gillian Gallagher<\/b> (NYU): Auditory features: the case from laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions
\n- Peter Graff<\/b> (with Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger): Phonetic convergence among reality television contestants
\n- Peter Graff<\/b> (with Gregory Scontras and Noah D. Goodman): Plural comparison and collective predication
\n- Peter Graff<\/b> (with Jeffrey Lim and Sophie Monahan): The determiner complexity hierarchy
\n- Jonah Katz<\/b> (Centre national de la recherche scientifique): English duration patterns mirror perceptual asymmetries
\n- Giorgio Magri<\/b> (\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure): Towards a non-universal approach to the problem of the acquisition of
\nphonotactics in Optimality Theory
\n- Tara McAllister<\/b> (Montclair State University): Patterns of gestural overlap account for positional fricative
\nneutralization in child phonology
\n- Pritty Patel<\/b>: Binding conditions and alienable vs. inalienable possession
\n- Kirill Shklovsky<\/b>: Tseltal unnegatives <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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