Structure building in language production Language production is one of the two primary ways in which we use our grammatical knowledge. However, compared to our understanding of how comprehenders parse...

Sierra Miwwok Templates-, Practice Talk for Prosodic & Segmental Patterns in Morpholog

Internal determiners in Pular relative clauses This talk presents novel data from Pular, an Atlantic language spoken in Guinea. I show that in Pular, it is possible to express the...

Agree is considered one of the fundamental operations of Minimalist Syntax, responsible for establishing long-distance dependencies (e.g. agreement, wh-movement). Various models of Agree have been suggested over the last few...

Towards predicting phonetic drift in heritage speakers

From Points to Polygons: Modelling Spatial Correlation, Practice Talk for Evolang

The Factative Effect in Avatime The Factative Effect (Welmers 1973) is a phenomenon found in many African languages whereby a single aspectual category, often labeled the factative, seemingly has a...