Yale linguists present at LSA Annual Meeting
January 31, 2022
Yale linguists presented a number of talks and posters at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) held both virtually and in person in Washington, D.C. from January 6-9. The talks/posters are listed below in order of their presentation in the conference schedule. Affiliations of collaborators from other institutions are listed in parentheses:
- Robert Frank & Hadas Kotek (MIT): Top-down derivations: Flipping syntax on its head
- Roslyn Burns: Balancing Social Determinism and Sound Change
- Ka-Fai Yip & Zhuo Chen (UCLA): Adverbial clauses with and without operator movement
- Sarah Babinski & Claire Bowern: Automatic Categorization of Prosodic Contours in Bardi
- Josh Phillips: Cyclicity, narrativity and Djambarrpuyŋu tense
- Michael Stern, Jason Shaw and Shigeto Kawahara (Keio University): Assessing phonological control of parasagittal tongue shape in Japanese sibilants
- Chelsea Sanker: Dialect-specific phonological features shape perceptual generalization
- Claire Bowern: Polysemy as a prelude to semantic change
- Ka-Fai Yip & Comfort Ahenkorah: Non-agreeing resumptive pronouns and partial Copy Deletion
- Claire Bowern & Ricker Dockum (Swarthmore College): Decolonizing Historical Linguistics in the Classroom and Beyond
- Amelia Lake, Juhyae Kim, Kassandra Haakman, Jeremiah Jewell, Irene Yi, Sarah Babinski and Claire Bowern: Accessibility, discoverability, and functionality of digital language archives
- Sarah Babinski, Jeremiah Jewell, Kassandra Haakman, Juhyae Kim, Amelia Lake, Irene Yi and Claire Bowern: How usable are digital collections for endangered languages? A review
- Irene Yi: Sociolinguistically-Aware Computational Models of Mandarin-English Codeswitching Using CART