| 8:00-9:15 | Registration and Breakfast (Rolfe Courtyard) |
| Chair: Bruce Hayes | ||
| 9:15-9:30 | Opening | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Elliott Moreton (UNC): Modularity Bias in Phonological Pattern Learning | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break (Rolfe Courtyard) |
| Public Affairs 1234 | Public Affairs 1246 | |
| Phonology 1 | Syntax-Semantics 1 | |
| Chair: Adam Albright | Chair: Roumyana Pancheva | |
| 10:50 | Guillaume Thomas (MIT): An analysis of the Xiamen Tone Circle |
Marta Abrusan (MIT) and Benjamin Spector (Harvard): An interval-based semantics for degree questions: negative islands and their obviation |
| 11:20 | Chiyuki Ito (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Analogical Changes in the Accent of Sino-Korean Words in Yanbian Korean |
Urtzi Etxeberria and Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS): Measure Phrases and Counting in Basque |
| 11:50 | Katharine Dutcher and Mary Paster (Pomona College): Contour Tone Distribution in Luganda |
Jon Nissenbaum and Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University): The scope of too with gapped infinitival clauses |
| 12:20-2:20 | Lunch Break |
| Public Affairs 1234 | Public Affairs 1246 | |
| Special Session: Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias | Syntax 1 | |
| Chair: Kie Zuraw | Chair: Felicia Lee | |
| 2:20 | Sara Finley and William Badecker (Johns Hopkins University): Analytic Biases for Vowel Harmony Languages |
Bartosz Wiland (University of Poznan): Circumstantial Evidence for Syntactic Head Movement |
| 2:50 | Adam Albright (MIT): Chaotic evolution in an unbiased learner |
Marijke De Belder (Catholic University of Brussels): Size Matters: Towards a syntactic decomposition of countability |
| 3:20 | Franz Katzir-Cozier (MIT): Encoding perceived contrast between CC-clusters & simplified counterparts in coda CC simplification |
Jessica Coon (MIT): When Ergative = Genitive: Nominals and Split Ergativity |
| 3:50 | Jie Zhang and Yuwen Lai (University of Kansas): Phonological Knowledge beyond the Lexicon in Taiwanese Double Reduplication |
Pavel Grashchenkov (Moscow State University) and Vita Markman (Simon Fraser University): Non-core arguments in verbal and nominal predication: high/low applicatives and possessor raising |
| 4:20-4:40 | Break (Public Affairs Terrace) |
| Public Affairs 1234 | Public Affairs 1246 | |
| Semantics 1 | Syntax 2 | |
| Chair: Elena Guerzoni | Chair: Andrew Simpson | |
| 4:40 | Ilana Mezhevich (University of Calgary): A time-relational approach to tense and mood |
Marjorie Pak (UPenn): A-movement locality and intervention effects in Luganda |
| 5:10 | Ezra Keshet (MIT): Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables |
Eric Potsdam (University of Florida) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard): Covert A-Movement: New evidence from the Caucasus |
| 5:40 | Daniel Altshuler (Rutgers University): The role of aspect and reference time in the interpretation of Russian indirect reports |
Minjeong Son and Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø): Microparameters of Cross-Linguistic Variation: Directed Motion and Resultatives |
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast (Humanities Terrace) |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Phonology 2 | Special Session: Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics (part 1) | |
| Chair: Michael Marlo | Chair: Nina Hyams | |
| 9:00 | Jiwon Yun (Cornell): Noun-Verb Asymmetries in Korean Phonology |
Tania Ionin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): An experimental investigation of the semantics and pragmatics of specificity |
| 9:30 | Darya Kavitskaya (Yale University) and Peter Staroverov (Moscow State University): Opacity in Tundra Nenets |
Laura Kertz (UC San Diego): Focus Structure and Acceptability in Verb Phrase Ellipsis |
| 10:00 | Wendell Kimper and Emily Elfner (UMass, Amherst): Reduplication without RED: evidence from diddly-infixation |
Jorie Koster-Moeller (Pomona College), Jason Varvoutis (MIT) and Martin Hackl (Pomona College): Verification Procedures for Modified Numeral Quantifiers |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break (Humanities Terrace) |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Semantics 2 | Special Session: Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics (part 2) | |
| Chair: Benjamin Spector | Chair: Carson Schütze | |
| 10:50 | Olga Kagan (UC Santa Cruz) and Ilona Spector (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Alternative Semantics for the Hebrew Determiner Eize |
Elsi Kaiser (USC) and Jeffrey Runner (University of Rochester): Intensifiers in German and Dutch anaphor resolution |
| 11:20 | Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford): Russian -nibud Items as Dependent Indefinites |
Jon Sprouse (UC Irvine): Magnitude Estimation and the (non-)Linearity of Acceptability Judgments |
| 11:50 | Adrian Brasoveanu (Stanford): Sentence-Internal Readings of Same / Different as Quantifier-Internal Anaphora |
Thomas Weskott and Gisbert Fanselow (University of Potsdam): Scaling Acceptability -- Different Measures, Same Results |
| 12:20-2:20 | Lunch Break |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Phonology 3 | Syntax 3 | |
| Chair: Jie Zhang | Chair: Peter Hallman | |
| 2:20 | Kuniko Nielsen and Colin Wilson (UCLA): A Bayesian Network Model of Multi-level Phonetic Imitation |
Clemens Mayr (Harvard) and Viola Schmitt (University of Vienna): Extraction from coordinate structures, the ordering of operations, and inaccessible domains |
| 2:50 | Ying Lin (University of Arizona): Stochastic Relaxation and the Innatist Approach to Language Acquisition |
Adam Szczegielniak (Harvard/Warsaw University): Islands in Sluicing in Polish |
| 3:20 | Uriel Cohen Priva (Stanford): Using Information Content to Predict Phone Deletion |
Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard): Relatively speaking (in Circassian) |
| 3:50-4:10 | Break (Humanities Terrace) |
| 4:10-5:10 | Poster Session (Roster) |
| Chair: Carson Schütze | ||
| 5:10-6:10 | Liina Pylkkänen (NYU) Semantic Composition and the Anterior Midline Field | |
| 6:10 | Dinner/Party (Rolfe Courtyard) |
| 8:30-9:00 | Breakfast (Humanities Terrace) |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Semantics 3 | Syntax 4 | |
| Chair: Daniel Büring | Chair: Maria Luisa Zubizarreta | |
| 9:00 | Oliver Bott (University of Tübingen): Doing it again and again may be difficult - but it depends on what you are doing... |
Jeremy Hartman (MIT): Dwarf-class verbs, Theta-theory, and Argument Linking |
| 9:30 | Elsi Kaiser (USC): Interpreting Finnish reciprocals |
Stephanie Harves (Pomona College): Intensional Transitives and Silent HAVE: Distinguishing between WANT and NEED |
| 10:00 | Christian Ebert (University of Bielefeld), Cornelia Endriss (University of Osnabrück) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (Humboldt University of Berlin): Topics as Speech Acts - An Analysis of Conditionals |
Martin Hackl and Jorie Koster-Moeller (Pomona College): Quantifier Scope Constraints in ACD: Implications for the Syntax of Relative Clauses |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break (Humanities Terrace) |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Semantics 4 | Syntax 5 | |
| Chair: Ivano Caponigro | Chair: Anoop Mahajan | |
| 10:50 | Vincent Homer (UCLA): Intervention by Presupposition |
Miki Obata and Samuel Epstein (UMich): Deducing improper movement from phase based C-to-T phi transfer |
| 11:20 | Luis Alonso-Ovalle (UMass, Boston) and Paula Menendez-Benito (UMass, Amherst): Minimal Domain Widening |
Galen Basse (University of Washington): Factive Complements as Defective Phases |
| 11:50 | Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa): Some remarks on domain widening |
Masaya Yoshida (The University of Edinburgh) and Ángel Gallego (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Phases and Ellipsis |
| 12:20-2:20 | Lunch (Humanities Terrace) |
| Humanities 135 | Humanities 169 | |
| Phonology 4 | Syntax-Semantics 2 | |
| Chair: Rachel Walker | Chair: Hilda Koopman | |
| 2:20 | Michal Temkin Martínez (USC): Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization |
Jesse Harris (UMass, Amherst): Interpreting Raising and Matching Analyses of Relative Clauses: Two Roads to Heim's Ambiguity |
| 2:50 | Gillian Gallagher (MIT): Segmental identity and in laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions |
Aviad Eilam (UPenn): Intervention Effects: Why Amharic Patterns Differently |
| 3:20 | Tobias Scheer (CNRS, University of Nice): Piece-driven phase and one single phonology |
Kathryn Davidson, Ivano Caponigro and Rachel Mayberry (UC San Diego): On the Syntax and Semantics of Question-Answer Pairs in American Sign Language |
| 3:50-4:10 | Break (Humanities Terrace) |
| Chair: | Hilda Koopman | |
| 4:10-5:10 | Hagit Borer (USC): Notes on Late Insertion | |
| 5:10-6:00 | Departing Reception (Humanities Terrace) |
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