The 14th Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-14) took place in March 18-20th, hosted by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. UConn linguistics represented at the conference with poster presentations by:

• Mingjiang Chen. One Transition Point Hypothesis
• Jiayi Zhou and Marijke De Belder. Verbs or nouns? Mandarin compounds suggest a headedness model with probabilistic reasoning

… and a talk by:

• Brian Agbayani and Masao Ochi (PhD 1999, now at Osaka University). Tough constructions in Japanese and the Complex XP Constraint
  

 

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