{"id":7122,"date":"2015-03-30T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2015-03-29T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T22:19:42","slug":"mit-linguists-at-wccfl-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/03\/30\/mit-linguists-at-wccfl-33\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguists at WCCFL 33"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four of our students traveled to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver to present talks at the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0(a.k.a. WCCFL 33):<\/p>\n

Isaac Gould<\/strong>: Learning from ambiguous input via parameter interaction (or lack thereof)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Nicholas Longenbaugh<\/a><\/strong>, with Bradley Larson<\/a> (Harvard) and Maria Polinsky<\/a> (Harvard): <\/a>Subject\/Object Parity in Niuean and the Labeling Algorithm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Lilla Magyar<\/a>:<\/strong> Are universal markedness hierarchies learnable from the lexicon? The case of gemination in Hungarian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Coppe van Urk<\/a><\/strong>: Multiple spell-out and the realization of pronouns<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u0097 where they were joined by two of our very recent PhDs, also presenting papers:<\/p>\n

Claire Halpert<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PhD 2012) (Minnesota): Raising Parameters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PhD 2011)\u00a0(U of Toronto) and Hedde Zeijlstra<\/a> (G\u00f6ttingen). Upward Agree is Superior<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Not to mention keynote speaker and distinguished alum Kyle Johnson<\/a> (PhD 1985) from UMass Amherst, and former visitor Hedde Zeijlstra (G\u00f6ttingen) (who presented a poster arguing, against all odds, that some of Jonah Katz<\/a>\u00a0(Phd 2010) and David Pesetsky<\/a>’s ideas about language and music <\/a>are wrong). Plus current visitor Lena Karvovskaya<\/a> (Leiden) and fondly remembered former postdoc Eric Schoorlemer<\/a> (Leiden), who presented a poster about ““The possessor that should have stayed close to home, but ran away”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four of our students traveled to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver to present talks at the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics\u00a0(a.k.a. WCCFL 33): Isaac Gould: Learning from ambiguous input via parameter interaction (or lack thereof) Nicholas Longenbaugh, with Bradley Larson (Harvard) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard): Subject\/Object Parity in Niuean and the Labeling Algorithm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","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\/7122","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}