15 April 2012

UMass at Chicago Linguistics Society

The 48th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society meets Thursday (April 19) through Saturday (April 21) at the University of Chicago.

UMass graduate student Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten will present "Slightly coerced: Processing evidence for adjectival coercion by minimizers."

UMass alumnus Kai von Fintel is an invited speaker: he will present "What's an Imperative"

UMass alumnus John Alderete will present "Learning phonotactics without rules: A connectionist model OCP-Place in Arabic," a paper co-authored with Stefan Frisch.

UMass alumnus Elliott Moreton will present "Is phonological learning special?," a paper co-authored with Katya Pertsova