Maryland at LSA in DC

9 presentations on syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics, acquisition and outreach.

January 6-9, 2022, the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America is right downtown at the Washington Hilton. This year's meeting, a mixture of in-person and virtual presentations, features nine presentations by present Terps and recent alums – including PhD students Yu'an Yang, Craig Thorburn, Erika Exton, Kathleen Oppenheimer, Lauren Salig, Ayrnn Byrd and Zach Maher; postdocs Dan Goodhue and Meg Cychosz; faculty Valentine Hacquard, Jeff Lidz, Yi Ting Huang and Jan Edwards; and recent alums Tyler Knowlton *21, Rodrigo Ranero *21, Paulina Lyskawa *21 and Nick Huang *19 – on a gamut of topics. Yu'an will also be in this year's 5-Minute Linguist competition, "a high-profile event which features eight LSA members giving lively and engaging presentations about their research in a manner accessible to the general public[:] no notes, no podium, and an actual timer" [italics mine]. 

• Yu'an Yang and Nick Huang, How do learners know attitude verbs select what in wh-in situ languages?
• Margaret [Meg] Cychosz (HESP) and Kathryn French, Suitcase Phonetics: Creating a Portable Phonetics Laboratory
• Yu'an Yang, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, Are you asking me or telling me? Learning to identify questions in early speech to children
• Daniel Goodhue and Junko Shimoyama, Clausal complementation under to in Japanese
• Arynn Byrd, Zachary Maher, Yi Ting Huang and Jan Edwards, Development and Evaluation of a Dialect Experience Questionnaire
• Rodrigo Ranero and Paulina Lyskawa, True progressive harmony exists
• Tyler Knowlton and Victor Gomes, Linguistic and non-linguistic cues to acquiring the strong distributivity of “each”
• Margaret (Meg) Cychosz, Language exposure and the development of phonological working memory
• Erika Exton, Kathleen Oppenheimer, Lauren Salig and Craig Thorburn, Taking linguistics to Zoom school: Engaging children in virtual outreach