Except where otherwise noted, all events are in the Becton Seminar Room
(Dunham Labs MC035, 10 Hillhouse Avenue)

A printable PDF version of this program is available here

Saturday, December 9, Yale University

09:00 – 09:55 Check-in and Breakfast
Coffee and light breakfast provided

09:55 – 10:00 Opening remarks

10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: Phonology
Session chair: Christopher Geissler

10:00 – 10:30 A prominence-based analysis of nasal diphthong reduction in Brazilian Portuguese
Emanuel Quadros (Yale)

10:30 – 11:00 Phonological trends in Seoul Korean compound tensification
Seoyoung Kim (Stony Brook)

11:00 – 11:30 Old English poetic alliteration as correspondence
Naomi Lee (NYU)

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 12:45 Session 2: Morphology
Session chair: Parker Brody

11:45 – 12:15 Phonological constituents in Armenian: When cyclicity misaligns
Hossep Dolatian (Stony Brook)

12:15 – 12:45 He, he, it: Against universal restrictions on gender syncretism
Samuel Andersson (Yale)

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch break
Meal provided

2:00 – 3:00 Invited talk: Dr. Maria Piñango
The conceptual substance of lexical meanings: implications for linguistic meaning composition

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee break

3:15 – 4:45 Session 3: Syntax & Computation
Session chair: Emanuel Quadros

3:15 – 3:45 Finnish pragmatic enclitics, sentence final particle in second position?
Maxime Tulling (NYU)

3:45 – 4:15 Topic structure based on RST improves summarization performance
Natalie Schrimpf (Yale)

4:15 – 4:45 Preposition stranding in Southern Brazilian Portuguese
Mary Robinson (NYU)

4:45 – 5:00 Coffee break

5:00 – 6:30 Session 4: Experimental
Session chair: Martín Fuchs

5:00 – 5:30 Speech perception in “bubble” noise: Korean fricatives and affricates by native and non-native Korean listeners
Jiyoung Choi (CUNY)

5:30 – 6:00 Unfreeze rigid L1-Chinese inverse scope in L2-English comprehension
Jun Lyu (Stony Brook)

6:00 – 6:30 An ERP study of working memory effects as they build across consecutive nominal constituents
Alicia Parrish (NYU)

6:30 – Reception – Yale Linguistics Dept, 370 Temple St, Room 201
Dinner and beverages provided