{"id":6389,"date":"2014-09-15T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2014-09-15T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:25:19","slug":"mitlagb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/09\/15\/mitlagb\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT@LAGB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We forgot to tell you last week, but several of our linguists - faculty and students both - spent the previous week in Oxford giving talks at the annual meeting of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagb.org.uk\/lagb2014\/programme\">Linguistic Society of Great Britain<\/a><\/strong> (LAGB).<\/p>\n<p>Faculty speakers included invited speaker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/albright\/www\/\">Adam Albright<\/a><\/strong>, who gave both a Masterclass on &#8220;Gradient Phonotactics&#8221; and the 2014 Association Lecture on &#8220;Generalizing  phonological  patterns  with  phonetic  and  featural  biases&#8221;, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/flemming\/www\/\">Edward Flemming<\/a><\/strong>, who spoke about &#8220;Deriving long-distance coarticulation from local constraints&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition, two talks by three students were delivered by two students (for homework, figure out the possible scope relations among these quantifiers, and which reading we intended): 3rd-year student <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/juliets\/www\/home.html\">Juliet Stanton <\/a><\/strong>spoke on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/002131\">Varieties of A&#8217; extractions: evidence from preposition stranding<\/a>&#8221;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/steddy\/www\/\"><strong>Sam Steddy<\/strong><\/a> gave a talk presenting joint work with <strong>Iain Giblin<\/strong> entitled &#8220;Where&#8217;s wh-?  Prosodic disambiguation of in-situ whphrases&#8221; (slides with audio <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14618056\/LAGB%20Presentation%20FINAL%20-%20compatibility%20version.ppt\">here<\/a> and handout <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14618056\/LAGB%20Presentation%20final%20pdf.pdf\">here<\/a>.  (True tidbit:  <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/juliets\/www\/home.html\">Juliet<\/a> was interrogated about her talk by the border control officer at Heathrow airport. After pondering for a moment or two, he expressed agreement with the crucial judgments in her paper, and let her into the UK.)<\/p>\n<p>Alumni of our program presenting at LAGB included <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceh.ilch.uminho.pt\/pagina_investigador.php?inv=maria_do_pilar_pereira_barbosa_ling.php\">Pilar Barbosa<\/a> <\/strong>(PhD 1995), who gave a joint talk with Cecile Decat on &#8220;Subject object asymmetries in Clitic Left Dislocation&#8221; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ysudo\/www\/\">Yasutada Sudo<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2012), whose joint talk with Patrick Elliott discussed \u0093E-type readings of quantifiers under ellipsis\u0094 &#8212; plus undergrad alum <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.uchicago.edu\/~cskim\/chris_kim\/\">Christina Kim<\/a><\/strong> (S.B. 2003), who talked about \u0093Predictability and implicit communicative content\u0094. Recent visitors Caroline Heycock and Gary Thoms also gave a joint talk on &#8220;Reconstruction and modification in relative clauses&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We forgot to tell you last week, but several of our linguists - faculty and students both - spent the previous week in Oxford giving talks at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of Great Britain (LAGB). 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