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Department of Linguistics

Stony Brook Linguistics at LSA 2020

Stony Brook Linguistics was well represented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 2-5, 2020:

<Awards>

Paola Cepeda and Hadas Kotek (Apple) received the Linguistic Service Award 2020 on behalf of the Pop-Up Mentoring Program leaders, all of them members of the LSA Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics.

<Poster presentations>

  • Andrei Antonenko & Colin Davis (MIT): Order Preservation in the Russian Nominal Phrase
  • Hyunah Baek: Prosodic Disambiguation in L1 and L2 Production
  • Ayla Karakaş: An IBSP Description of Sanskrit /n/-Retroflexion
  • Anna Melnikova: The Aspectual Distribution and Modal Licensing in Russian Infinitival Constructions
  • Nazila Shafiei & Thomas Graf: The Subregular Complexity of Syntactic Islands
  • Grace B. Wivell, Veronica Miatto, Jing Ji, Ayla Karakaş, Kalina Kostyszyn, & Lori Repetti: All about ablaut: a typology of reduplicative vowel change
  • Alex Hong-Lun Yeung: I got you: glide epenthesis as vowel hiatus resolution enhances the weaker vowel
  • Alex Hong-Lun Yeung, Hyunah Baek, Chikako Takahashi, Stephen Buttner, Jiwon Hwang, & Ellen Broselow: Too little, too late: a longitudinal study of English corrective focus by Mandarin speakers

<Oral presentations>

  • Andrei Antonenko, Mark Aronoff, Paola Cepeda, Aniello De Santo, & Lori Repetti: The world turned upside-down: flipping the classroom in a large linguistics lecture course. 
  • Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University), Francisco Ordóñez, Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona): Historical Development and Semantic Mapping of Modern Romance Split DP Systems
  • Paola Cepeda & Viviane Deprez (Rutgers University): Exploring the meaning of French expletive negation ne. An experimental approach.

<Symposium> 

  • Andrei Antonenko, Mark Aronoff, Paola Cepeda, Aniello de Santo, & Lori Repetti: Teaching Large General Linguistics Classes

<Tutorial>

Alëna Aksënova: SigmaPie for subregular and subsequential grammar induction

<Special events>

Paola Cepeda: Pop-Up Mentoring Program (In-Site Person)

<Poster presentations at Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)>

  • Aniello De Santo: MG Parsing as a Model of Gradient Acceptability in Syntactic Islands
  • Jonathan Rawski & Hossep Dolatian: Multi Input Strictly Local Functions for Tonal Phonology 

<Oral presentations at SCiL>

  • Hossep Dolatian & Jonathan Rawski: Multi Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology
  • Thomas Graf: Curbing Feature Coding: Strictly Local Feature Assignment
  • Max Nelson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski, & Brandon Prickett (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Probing RNN Encoder-Decoder Generalization of Subregular Functions using Reduplication

< Keynote Lecture at SCiL> 

  • Jeff Heinz: Mathematical Linguistics in the 21st Century