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