Penn Linguistics Conference

    The 42nd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place March 23-25, 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA.

    PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

    This Conference is made possible by generous funding from:

    The Linguistics Data Consortium
    SASgov
    GAPSA

    Keynote Speaker:

    John Rickford (Stanford University)

    Keynote title: How I got into sociolinguistics, and what I'm (still) tryna get out of it [abstract]

    Special Panel:

    Signals and Symbols: Linking continuous and discrete representations

    The panel speakers and the titles of their talks are:

    • Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, moderator)
    • Jenn Segawa (Stonehill College):
      Searching the brain for speech representations
    • Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania):
      Evaluating how children might, or might not, interpret phonetic variation phonologically
    • Jeff Mielke (NC State University):
      Continuous and discrete representations in coarticulation to /ɹ/ in English
    • Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University):
      Signs, speech, and gesture: integrating continuous and discrete representations into a single proposition

      • The panel abstracts can be found here.

    This panel will take place in the afternoon on Friday, March 23, 2018.

    Conference Schedule

    Here is the PLC 42 schedule of events.

    Program

    The full program with all abstracts is available here.
    You can also find abstracts for each session here.

    Friday Reception

    Please note that a state-issued ID or passport is required in order to consume alcohol at the panel reception Friday evening. University policy requires us to have security checking IDs and issuing wristbands to those over 21 at the door.

    Party

    After the keynote address by Prof. John Rickford, we will have our traditional annual PLC party at Clarkville, on 4301 Baltimore avenue, starting at 9pm on Saturday.
    Please also make sure to bring a valid form of ID to the party on Saturday, since Pennsylvania bars are required to check the age of anyone that looks 30 or younger.

    Previous Conferences

    Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.