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Yu'an earns Honorable Mention in LSA's 5ML

January 09, 2022 Linguistics

A close portrait of the smiling face of Yu'an Yang, a PhD student in linguistics, holding up a gold medal that hangs from her neck by a ribbon

Five honorable minutes on learning to Identify questions in early speech to children.

Congratulations to Yu'an Yang, who earned "Honorable Mention" from the judges of the LSA's "Five Minute Linguist" competition, for her charming and effective five-minute video, "Are you asking me?," on how children come to identify the category of Question in their language.