{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-17T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2008\/03\/17\/mit-at-wccfl-27\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T17:01:58","slug":"mit-at-wccfl-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/03\/17\/mit-at-wccfl-27\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT at WCCFL 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ucla.edu\/wccfl27\/Program.html\">preliminary program<\/a> of talks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistics.ucla.edu\/wccfl27\/Home.html\">WCCFL 27<\/a> at UCLA (May 16-18) has been posted, and MIT promises to be well represented!<br clear='none'\/>\nAccepted talks or posters by current or recent MIT affiliates include:<\/P><\/p>\n<p>Current MIT graduate students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Franz Cozier: Encoding perceived contrast between CC-clusters & simplified counterparts in coda CC simplification<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Coon: When Ergative = Genitive: Nominals and Split Ergativity<\/li>\n<li>Maria Giavazzi: On the distribution of velar palatalization in Italian<\/li>\n<li>Guillaume Thomas: An analysis of the Xiamen Tone Circle<\/li>\n<li>Gillian Gallagher: Identity and laryngeal features<\/li>\n<li>Claire Halpert: Overlap-Driven Consequences of Nasal Place Assimilation in Zulu<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Hartman: Dwarf-class verbs, Theta-theory, and Argument Linking<\/li>\n<li>Ezra Keshet: Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables<br clear='none'\/>\nJason Varvoutis: Verification Procedures for Modified Numeral Quantifiers (with Jorie Koster-Moeller and Martin Hackl)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MIT faculty: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Albright: Chaotic evolution in an unbiased learner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent alums: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liina Pylk&auml;nnen (plenary speaker, Saturday)<\/li>\n<li>Marta Abrusan: An interval-based semantics for degree questions: negative islands and their obviation (with Benjamin Spector)<\/li>\n<li>Heejeong Ko: Economy in rightward movement: moving into inner edge (with Jae-Young Choi)\t<\/li>\n<li>Martin Hackl: Verification Procedures for Modified Numeral Quantifiers (with Jorie Koster-Moeller and Jason Varvoutis); D-Raising in Restrictive Relative Clauses (with Jorie Koster-Moeller) <\/li>\n<li> Jon Nissenbaum: The scope of too with gapped infinitival clauses (with Bernhard Schwarz)<\/li>\n<li>Tania Ionin (BCS PhD): An experimental investigation of the semantics and pragmatics of specificity<\/li>\n<li>Christina Kim (2003 S.B, linguistics minor): Information integration and domain restriction: Interpreting &#8216;only&#8217; in context (with Christine Gunlogson, Michael Tanenhaus and Jeffrey Runner)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent or current visitors: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bartosz Wiland: Circumstantial Evidence for Syntactic Head  Movement<\/li>\n<li>Chiyuki Ito: Analogical Changes in the Accent of Sino-Korean Words in Yanbian Korean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Thanks to David Pesetsky]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary program of talks for WCCFL 27 at UCLA (May 16-18) has been posted, and MIT promises to be well represented! Accepted talks or posters by current or recent MIT affiliates include: Current MIT graduate students: Franz Cozier: Encoding perceived contrast between CC-clusters &#038; simplified counterparts in coda CC simplification Jessica Coon: When Ergative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}