Maryland talks at LSA in Minneapolis

Work by Alexis, Angela, Chris H., Chris L., Dan and Dustin, with support from Jeff, Colin, Bill and Alexander, will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Minneapolis.

January 2-5, work by Alexis, Angela, Chris H., Chris L., Dan and Dustin, with support from Jeff, Colin, Bill and Alexander, will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Minneapolis. There will also be a presentation by Scott Jackson from CASL, and three talks (!) involving alumna Annie Gagliardi. Talks * Chris Heffner and Bill Idsardi, Limits on Phonetic Category Learning * Chris LaTerza, Ruth Kramer, Morgan Rood and Dustin Chacón, Plural Shifted Indexicals are Plural: Evidence from Amharic * Dan Parker and Colin Phillips, Negative polarity illusions and the format of hierarchical encodings in memory * Andrew Wedel, Rebecca Sharp and Scott Jackson, Phonetic cues distinguishing minimal pairs are hyperarticulated in natural speech * Ann Gagliardi, Input ≠ Intake: the case of Norwegian noun classes * Ann Gagliardi, Pedro Mateo Pedro and Maria Polinsky, The Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Q’anjob’al Mayan * Ann Gagliardi, Michael Goncalves, Nina Radkevich and Maria Polinsky, The Biabsolutive in Nakh-Dagestanian: Syntax and Learnability
Posters * Alexis Wellwood, Decomposing gradable adjectives and introducing degrees * Angela Xiaoxue He, Alexis Wellwood, Jeffrey Lidz and Alexander Williams, Assessing event perception in adults and prelinguistic children: A prelude to syntactic bootstrapping