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