October 3, 2018
The program for this year's LSA annual meeting has been released, and Berkeley linguistics will be represented in 14 talks and posters (plus an organized session) by students, faculty, and very recent alumni:
- Kenneth Baclawski Jr.(link is external): Optional wh-movement is discourse-connected movement in Eastern Cham(link is external)
- Amalia Skilton(link is external) and David Peeters (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Speaker and addressee in spatial deixis: new experimental evidence(link is external)
- Zachary O'Hagan(link is external): Two Sorts of Contrastive Topic in Caquinte(link is external)
- Emily Clem(link is external) and Virginia Dawson(link is external): Feature sharing and functional heads in concord(link is external)
- Noga Zaslavsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karee Garvin, Charles Kemp (University of Melbourne), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Terry Regier(link is external): Color-naming evolution and efficiency: The case of Nafaanra(link is external)
- Susan Lin(link is external) and Myriam Lapierre(link is external): Articulatory patterns in contrasting nasal-stop sequences in Panará(link is external)
- John Merrill (PhD '18): Polarity rules in Kobiana consonant mutation(link is external)
- Jesse Zymet(link is external): Learning lexical trends together with idiosyncrasy: MaxEnt versus the mixed logit(link is external)
- Andrew Cheng(link is external): Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent(link is external)
- Emily Clem(link is external): The cyclic nature of Agree: Maximal projections as probes(link is external)
- Nicholas Rolle (PhD '18): A cyclic account of a trigger-target asymmetry in concatenative vs. replacive tone(link is external)
- Virginia Dawson(link is external): Disjunction scope can be lexically encoded: Evidence from Tiwa(link is external)
- Tessa Scott(link is external): Cyclic linearization and the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Ndengeleko
- Martha Schwarz, Myriam Lapierre(link is external), Karee Garvin, and Sharon Inkelas(link is external): Representing Segment Strength: New Applications of Q Theory [in the special session on Inside Segments, organized by Myriam Lapierre(link is external), Karee Garvin, Martha Schwarz, Ryan Bennett, and Sharon Inkelas(link is external)!]
Congrats all!