Summer and Fall 2019 brought a new wave of conferences, with our graduate students representing Cornell Linguistics.
International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24
- Francesco Burroni and Sireemas Maspong – Contrast Emergence, Preservation, and Loss: A case study of initial geminates
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
- Abby Cohn and Rachel Vogel - Variation in two patterns of word-initial deletion in Jakarta Indonesia: Insight from naturalistic data
GLOW in Asia XII in Seoul and SICOGG XXI
- Jing Gao – On the syntax of Mandarin post-nominal relative clauses
Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2019
- Forrest Davis and Abigail C Cohn – Effects of lexical frequency and compositionality on phonological reduction in English compounds
Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
- Peter Sutton and Carol-Rose Little – The Finnish partitive in counting and measuring constructions
- Carol-Rose Little – The interpretation of bare nouns in Ch’ol (Mayan)
Segmental Processes in Interaction with Prosodic Structure
- Rachel Vogel – Prosodic prominence effects on laryngeal and supralaryngeal properties of Nepali stops
Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL)15
- Eszter Ótott-Kovács – Genitive-marked subjects in Kazakh relative clauses
- Mia Gong – A Lowering Analysis of Dagur CASE-POSS Order
27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
- Seung-Eun Kim – The Prosody of Contrastive Topic in Korean
- Hitomi Minamida – Prosody and wh-scope in Osaka Japanese
50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
- Mia Gong – A Lowering Analysis of Dagur CASE-POSS Order
- Jing Gao – The syntax of non-restrictive relative clauses: a Mandarin case
- Carol-Rose Little – Left branch extraction, freezing and object shift in Tumbalá Ch’ol
Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology
- Nielson Hul – Dialect variation as evidence of subgrouping in Khmer
Linguistic Society of American Annual Meeting
- Eszter Ótott-Kovács – Possessed relatives in Turkic
- Carol-Rose Little – Left branch extraction and object shift in Tumbala Ch’ol
- Carol-Rose Little, Mary Moroney, and Justin Royer – Classifying classifiers: Two kinds of numeral classifiers across languages
- Forrest Davis and Abigail C Cohn – The relationship between lexical frequency, compositionality, and phonological reduction in English compounds
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
- Morelia Vázquez Martínez and Carol-Rose Little – Dimensions of definiteness in Ch’ol: A dialectical comparison
- Frances Sobolak – Montana Salish epenthesis and consonant class division
Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)
- Jacob Collard – Unsupervised formal grammar induction with confidence
- Joseph Rhyne – Reconciling historical data and modern computational models in corpus creation
