Diane Lillo-Martin gave an invited talk on November 27th, 2024 at the Instituto Cervantes of Manchester titled: Bimodal Bilingualism: A Spoken Language and a Sign Language.
Talks
Van der Hulst at OCP Workshop
Harry van der Hulst gave an invited talk, titled “Transparency and opacity in vowel harmony“, at the OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony, which took place on February 4th as part of the 22nd Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP22), which took place at the University of Amsterdam.
Željko Bošković | Two invited talks at Leipzig University
Željko Bošković gave two invited talks this week at the Leipzig University Institute of Linguistics:
The talks were titled:
- “Nominal and non-nominal subjects: Adieu to the A/A’-distinction” (November 12th)
- “Spelling out phases and labeling” (November 13th)
Chuang at AMP
Jarry Chia-Wei Chuang gave a talk, titled “Where are you from? The status of prenuclear glide in Mandarin”, at the 2024 Annual Meeting on Phonology, which took place at Rutgers University on November 1st-3rd.
UConn Linguistics at BUCLD
The 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD49) is taking place on November 7-10th 2024. UConn linguistics is going to be well represented at the conference with a keynote talk by:
- Diane Lillo-Martin. Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right
… talks by:
- Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Madeline Quam, Marie Coppola, Jesse C. Snedeker and Annemarie Kocab. The role of language in building one and two-place predicates: event imitation in homesigners
- Annemarie Kocab, Madeline Quam, Marie Coppola and Jesse Snedeker. Who did what to whom? Marking event participants in Nicaraguan homesign systems
- Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto) and Stella Christie. Highlighting the presupposition trigger helps: Evidence from Mandarin-acquiring children’s interpretation of presuppositional you ‘again’
- Penelope Daniel. Clitics as prerequisites for Spanish DOM
… and posters by:
- Alyssa Vorobey, Nadia Faehndrich and Lyn Tieu. Children project the presuppositional inferences of co-speech sound effects
- Anita Sritharan, Janice Shum and Lyn Tieu. Extending presupposition projection to co-speech gestures: The view from child language
- Lea Heßler-Reusch, Ting Xu and Xiaolu Yang. Chinese L2 learner’s interpretation of telicity in German
- Madeline Quam, Annemarie Kocab and Marie Coppola. Pragmatic knowledge in asymmetric language contexts
- Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Acquisition of particle drop in Japanese: a preliminary study
- Chui Yi Lee and Angelica Hill. Children’s acquisition of circumstantial modals: Do they know where necessity can come from?
- Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Do children know that PolQs are not AltQs? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
In addition, Yixuan (Pepper) Yan was also awarded the Paula Menyuk Award for top-rated abstracts by student first authors. Congratulations!
Photo: UConn linguists and UConn-connected people at BUCLD following Diane Lillo-Martin’s keynote talk.
Magdalena Kaufmann | Two workshop presentations
Magdalena Kaufmann gave two presentations entitled “Reaching the remote and the impossible” at the Semantics Workshop at UMass on October 18 and at the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop on October 28.
UConn Linguists at NELS
The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society took place at Yale University, October 17-18. UConn Linguistics was well represented at the conference with an invited talk by:
- Vicki Carstens. The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu
… talks by:
- Beccy Lewis (PhD 2024, now at UMass, Amherst). An implicational hierarchy on the exponence of heterogeneous plurals
- Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University), Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser. Syntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification
… and poster presentations by:
- Jon Gajewski. On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora
- Qiushi Chen. N-to-D movement, scrambling, and DP-internal constituent order in Chichewa
Yixuan (Pepper) Yan | Invited talk at ILLC
Yixuan (Pepper) Yan presented joint work with Yitong Luo at the N∅thing is Logical (∅NihiL) seminar organized by the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam. The talk, given on October 1st 2024, was titled“Do children know that PolQs are not AltQs? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese”.
UConn Linguistics at SinFonIJA
The 17th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 17), is being held on 26-28 September 2024 at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference by the following talks:
- Praval Yadaav & Giulio Muramatsu. Reduplication dislikes Specificity: Restrictions in Long-Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
- Elena Guerzoni, Furkan Dikmen & Penka Stateva (PhD 2002, now at University of Nova Gorica). A novel account of Turkish singular and plural marking
… and with an invited talk by:
- Luisa Martí (PhD 2003, now at Queen Mary University of London). Impossible determiners
UConn Linguistics at SuB
Sinn und Bedeutung 29, hosted by Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale (CUMO) in Noto, Italy, took place September 17-19, 2024. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference, with the following poster presentations:
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Seungho Nam & Aarón Sánchez. Expressive contexts and descriptive subjects of Spanish imperatives
- Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu & Pravaal Yadav. PPI Disjunction and Epistemic Lists
Photo: Seungho and Giulio at SuB 29