MIT linguists had another strong year at the LSA 2017 Annual Meeting, this year held in Austin, TX from January 5th-8th, 2017.<\/p>\n
The following department members and recent graduates presented talks and posters:<\/p>\n
Athulya Aravind<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kristen Syrett (Rutgers):\u00a0Gradability and vagueness in the nominal domain: an experimental approach<\/em><\/p>\n Lauren Clemens (SUNY Albany), Jessica Coon<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘10), Carol-Rose Little (Cornell), and Morelia V\u00e1zquez Mart\u00ednez (ITSM):\u00a0Encoding focus in Ch\u0092ol spontaneous speech<\/em><\/p>\n Michel DeGraff<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Linguistics, STEM, educational justice and political and economic equality: MIT-Haiti as case study for retooling linguistics<\/em><\/p>\n Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘14): C-T head-splitting: evidence from Toba Batak<\/em><\/p>\n Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong> and Ted Levin<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘15): On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel<\/em><\/p>\n Rachel Dudley (UMD), Meredith Rowe (Harvard), Valentine Hacquard<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘06)\u00a0and Jeffrey Lidz (UMD):\u00a0Distributional cues to factivity in the input<\/em><\/p>\n Aron Hirsch<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0Fragments, pseudo-clefts, and ellipsis<\/em><\/p>\n Michela Ippolito<\/a><\/strong> (PhD ‘02), Angelika Kiss (UToronto), and Tomohiro Yokotama (UToronto):\u00a0The semantics of object marking in Kinyarwanda<\/em><\/p>\n Sudheer Kolachina<\/strong><\/a> (S.M. ‘16): Vowel harmony in Telugu<\/em><\/p>\n Hadas Kotek<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘14):\u00a0Movement and alternatives don\u0092t mix: a new look at intervention effects<\/em><\/p>\n Ivona Ku?erov\u00e1<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD ‘07):\u00a0Evidence against ?-feature resolution accounts of agreement with DP coordinations<\/em><\/p>\n Ted Levin<\/a><\/strong> (PhD ‘15): Palauan DOM is a licensing phenomenon<\/em><\/p>\n Lilla Magyar<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Gemination in loanwords: interaction between perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formed ness<\/em><\/p>\n Kevin Tang (Yale) and\u00a0Andrew Nevins<\/a><\/strong> (PhD ‘05):\u00a0Expectation and lexical retrieval in naturalistic and experimental misperception<\/p>\n Christopher O’Brien<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0ATB-movement and island effects: an experimental study<\/em><\/p>\n Wayne O’Neil<\/a><\/strong>: This time is different<\/em><\/p>\n Juliet Stanton<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0Interactions between prenasalized stops and nasal vowels<\/em><\/p>\n Coppe van Urk<\/strong><\/a> (PhD ‘15): Mixed chains in Dinka<\/em><\/p>\n Michael McAuliffe (McGill), Michaela Socolof (McGill), Sarah Mihuc (McGill),\u00a0Michael Wagner<\/a><\/strong> (PhD ‘04), and Morgan Sonderegger (McGill):\u00a0Montreal Forced Aligner: an accurate and trainable forced aligner using Kaldi<\/em><\/p>\n Michelle Yuan<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0On apparent ergative agreement in Inuktitut<\/em><\/p>\n Ryan Sandell (UCLA) and\u00a0Sam Zukoff<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0The development of the Germanic preterite system: learnability and the modeling of diachronic morphophonological change<\/em><\/p>\n Additionally, Christopher Baron<\/a><\/strong> (A prospective puzzle and a possible solution<\/em>) and Cora Lesure<\/strong><\/a> (Phonologically null morphemes and templatic morphology: The case of Chuj (Mayan) \u0091h\u0092<\/em>) presented at SSILA<\/a> (Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas) 2017, which was held jointly with the LSA annual meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MIT linguists had another strong year at the LSA 2017 Annual Meeting, this year held in Austin, TX from January 5th-8th, 2017. 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