Yale Linguistics was well represented at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting held in New Orleans, LA from January 8th-12th 2026. Presenters included current graduate students, faculty, alumni and collaborators:
Talks:
- Lenition at left edges: interactions with phonological domains (Natalie Weber)
- Cyclic Reduplication in O’odham: A Stratal OT Account of Double Reduplication (Jeremy Johns)
- Pseudogapping Parameters (Yuyang Liu, co-authored with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee)
- Speech-based Generative AI for Low Resource Languages: Promises and Pitfalls (Claire Bowern, Alessio Tossolini)
- Articulatory movement and coordination under prosodic modulation in English and Mandarin (Mike Stern, Jason Shaw)
- Varieties of scalar exclusives (Ka-Fai Yip)
- Objects and nothingness: Applicative-licensed nominal ellipsis (Yuyang Liu)
- Concatenation occurs one morpheme at a time: Infixation in Choctaw (Dani Katenkamp, Finn Amber)
- Does the Williams Cycle apply to Mandarin Chinese? (Ka-Fai Yip, co-authored with Fulang Chen)
- First Steps in Collaborative Documentation of Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC) (Elena Koulidobrova, co-authored with Julio Aguirre, Jorge Banet, Fernada Bossano)
Posters:
- Tracing metonymic extensions of manner of motion verbs through diachrony (Teresa Borneo, Claire Bowern)
- When is ‘or not’ required in an embedded polar question? (Richard Luo)
- A Cognitive Bias for Individuation in Linguistic ‘mass’/‘count’ Uses Underlies Diachronic Trajectories of ‘Portioning’ and ‘Grinding’ Readings (Alessandra Pintado-Urbanc, Maria Piñango)
- Where Indigenous language revitalization and dominant L2 instruction meet: converging on the Indigenous pedagogy (Jeremy Johns, Elena Koulidobrova)
