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:

The 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 16) was held on July 15-19 in Prague, Czechia, and UConn Linguistics was represented at the conference with a talk by:

• Yixuan Yan. How do children distribute? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

… and posters by:

• Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Acquisition of epistemic modals in Mandarin Chinese
• Yixuan Yan. Does impoverished morphology make conditionals late? Counter-evidence from Mandarin

The 33rd annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33) was hosted by Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) on May 16th-19th. UConn linguistics was well represented with presentations by:

• Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell University). Negation and finiteness in BCMS
• Miloje Despić and Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at Reed College). On adjunction, complementation and the problem of present perfectives in BCMS
• Adrian Stegovec. Prosodic deficiency and person deficiency: What we can learn from cross-linguistic variation in Slavic clitic and weak pronouns (invited presentation, roundtable on “Trends and synergies in the research on Slavic clitics”)
• Krzysztof Migdalski (post-doc 2006-2008, now at University of Wrocław) and Hakyung Jung. Categorial mismatches of pronouns — a diachronic perspective
• Katarina Gomboc Čeh and Arthur Stepanov (PhD 2001, now at University of Nova Gorica). Processing syntactic dependencies in Slovenian heritage speakers
• Krzysztof Migdalski. UG determinism and phi-feature interpretability in the direction of language change (poster)

UConn linguists at FASL (left-to-right: Miloje, Krzysztof, Adrian, Neda):

The 45th International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC 2024) was virtually organized by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on 7-9 May 2024. UConn linguistics was represented with a talk by:

• Shengyun Gu, Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University), and Elaine Gale. ASL phonology develops early for deaf children in non-native signing home environment