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.

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.

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

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:

• 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

The 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 16), was held September 12-14 at the NOVA University of Lisbon. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:

• Yixuan Yan. A-not-A Questions in child Mandarin: Deletion or reduplication?
• Zixi Liu and Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. Early mastery of the Japanese Case system: New evidence from relative clauses.

… and posters by:

• Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto) and Stella Christie. Children are sensitive to the presupposition of you ‘again’ in Mandarin: Evidence from two alternative methods.
• Ayaka Sugawara, Koji Sugisaki (PhD 2003, now at Kwansei Gakuin University), Eri Tanaka, Satoshi Tomioka and Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University). Japanese-speaking children’s association of “only” in ditransitive sentences.

Part of the UConn linguistics contingent at GALA:

The 2024 edition of the meeting of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) colloquium took place August 6-8 in Ann Arbor, MI. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with the following talks:

• Diane Lillo-Martin, Linghui Eva Gan, Julie Hochgesang, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University). Assessing the Development of ASL by Deaf Children: Longitudinal Spontaneous Production Data
• Shengyun Gu. Crossing the boundary, but with a limit: Non-dominant hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language

… and the following poster presentations:

• Natasha Thalluri and Kathryn Davidson (post-doc 2012-13, now at Harvard University). Towards a unified view of “co-sign gesture” depictions as demonstrations
• Karahan Şahin and Kadir Gökgöz (post-doc 2013-16, now at Bogazici University): SL-AFE: Pose Estimation-based Sign Language Analysis Framework

Photo of (from left to right): Linghui Eva Gan, Kazumi Matsuoka (PhD 1998, now at Keio University), and Diane Lillo-Martin at the FEAST: