The annual Language Acquisition Workshop of New England (LAWNE) took place on October 25th, hosted by Yale University. Several UConn PhD students presented at the workshop:

• Yitong Luo and Yixuan Yan. Acquiring two disjunctive morphemes in Mandarin-speaking Children: A preliminary study
• Zixi Liu. Are those in-tree-guingly early Mandarin SFPs adult-like?
• Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Yet another study on the acquisition of Japanese Disjunction
• Pravaal Yadav. Overuse of Wh-Scope Marking in Child Hindi: An Investigation of Long-Distance Questions 

Ryuta Ono gave a talk, titled “Pseudo-right dislocation in Kansai Japanese“, at the 18th Arizona Linguistics Circle, which took place on October 16-17th.

Sinn und Bedeutung 30 will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt, September 23-27, 2024. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference, with an invited talk by:

• Magdalena Kaufmann. Perspectives on possibility modals

… and talks by:

• Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Temporal connectives and measure phrases in Japanese
• Mingjiang Chen. A Causal Model Approach to the Agent Control Hypothesis
• Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Declarative but not inquisitive disjunctors derive conjunctive inference in child language: What to flatten?
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto), Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and Andreea Nicolae.Comparing disjunction across polarities: The source of strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language is scope, not strengthening
• Yusuke Yagi (PhD 2025, now at Waseda University) and Ka-Fai Yip. Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope

… and poster presentations by:

• Jon Gajewski. A source-based ambiguity in the semantics of believe
• Xuetong Yuan (PhD 2024, now at University of Chicago). Conditionality without if: conditional marking strategies in Mandarin

Photo: Most of the UConn contingent at SuB 30.

The 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 17), was held September 11-13 in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME). UConn linguistics was well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Elaine Grolla (PhD 2005, now at University of Sao Paolo), Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999, now at ZAS Berlin), Andreea Nicolae, Artemis Alexiadou, and Uli Sauerland. Resumption in matrix wh-questions
• Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Mandarin children interpret declarative but not interrogative disjunction as conjunction
• André Eliatamby and Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language
• William Snyder, Sahil Luthra, Nabin Koirala and Roeland Hancock. Passives, Raising, and the Experiencer Externalization Hypothesis
• Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn, Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University), and Noriaki Yusa. Filler-gap Resolution in Cross-linguistic Wh-questions: L2 English and Lti Japanese

… and posters by:

• Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. A Picture Selection Task for the Acquisition of Japanese Disjunction
• Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Napoleon Katsos and Uli Sauerland. A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production
• Pravaal Yadav. Do children use the same grammar for comprehension and production? A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi

Stefan Kaufmann presented his work on “Import/Export and other conditional invalidities” at this year’s Philosophy of Language and Linguistics workshop at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 8-12.

Diane Lillo-Martin and Shuyan Wang will present a poster, titled “Children’s online processing of scalar implicatures”, at the 2025 edition of the conference on Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025), hosted by the University of Zurich, September 1st-2nd 2015.

The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, organized by Cornell University, took place on June 13-15, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with talks by:

• Qiushi Chen. On the dual status of -e- in Old Japanese verbal morphology
• Xuetong Yuan (PhD 2024, now at University of Chicago). Evaluativity and practicality in conditionals: the case of tewa