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UPenn Department of Linguistics Designed by Eric Doty Last updated March 8, 2023

    PLC47 Conference Program

    PLC 47 Schedule of Events

    Please note: This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change according to author or presenter availability, room booking, among other factors.
    We do not have luggage storage facilities on the premises, so please make all due arrangements before arriving to the conference.
    We look forward to seeing you soon!

    SATURDAY, March 18, 2023
    8:00 AM

    Registration & Breakfast

    3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Main Lobby
    Coffee & bagels will be provided in the LDC Kitchen.

    9:00 AM

    SESSION 1A: Syntax I (4 talks)

    LDC Main Function Room

    SESSION 1B: Sociolinguistics (4 talks)

    LDC Conference Room

    9:00 AM

    Variable verb-stranding ellipsis in Uyghur

    Robin Jenkins [abstract]

    Effects of talker's dialect labeling and listener's language experience on the perception of nasal codas in Shanghai Mandarin

    Xin Gao [abstract], [slides]

    9:27 AM

    Agreeing with only in Cantonese

    Ka-Fai Yip [abstract], [slides], [handout]

    Null subjects in Portuguese and the typology of conditioning on variation

    Gregory Guy [abstract], [slides]

    9:55 AM

    Against evacuation movement in NP-ellipsis

    Johanna Benz, Martin Salzmann and Gesoel Mendes [abstract], [slides]

    The Effects of Sex and Autism Spectrum Disorder on Prosody

    Sten Knutsen, Alexandra Kuziemski, Megan Kenny, Sue Peppé and Karin Stromswold [abstract], [slides]

    10:22 AM

    Object Preference, Object Shift, & Omnivorous Number: The View from Phorhépecha Clitics

    Naomi Kurtz and Akshay Aitha [abstract], [handout]

    Novel and changing social evaluations of all-lowercase and exclamation points

    Lena Abirou, Alexandra Kerrigan, Jay Michell and Lacey Wade [abstract]

    10:50 AM

    Coffee Break

    LDC Kitchen

    11:10 AM

    SESSION 2A: Syntax II (4 talks)

    LDC Main Function Room

    SESSION 2B: Semantics/Syntax (4 talks)

    LDC Conference Room

    11:10 AM

    Distinct Double Nominative Constructions in Korean

    Heesun Yang [abstract], [handout]

    Every provides an implicit comparison class when each does not

    Tyler Knowlton and Florian Schwarz [abstract]

    11:37 AM

    Postverbal gwai in Cantonese: A syntactic approach to rhetorical questions

    Tsun Hei Choi [abstract], [slides]

    Ordering expectation: The semantics of scalar only in Indian English

    Kaustubh Ghoshal [abstract], [handout]

    12:05 PM

    External Possession Constructions with Color Terms in Mandarin Chinese

    Liumao Zhong [abstract]

    A deficient indexical in British English: An analysis of singular 'us'

    Beccy Lewis [abstract]

    12:32 PM

    Two classes of 'anyone': A contrastive analysis of amwu and nwukwu in Korean

    Rok Sim and Stanley Dubinsky [abstract], [slides]

    Definiteness in plural generics: Decomposing maximality

    Aviv Schoenfeld [abstract], [slides]

    1:00 PM

    Lunch Break

    LDC Kitchen
    Catering by Di Bruno Bros.

    2:30 PM

    SESSION 3A: Syntax III (3 talks)

    LDC Main Function Room

    SESSION 3B: Phonology (3 talks)

    LDC Conference Room

    2:30 PM

    Detecting the antecedent complexity on VPE resolution: effects of semantic plausibility

    Jiayuan Yue and Ming Xiang [abstract], [slides]

    A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers

    Caleb Belth

    2:57 PM

    Morpho-syntax governs the embeddability of Utterance Honorifics: Evidence from Burmese

    Keita Ishii and Juyeon Cho [abstract], [slides]

    Maximal feature specification is feasible; minimal feature specification not so much

    Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss [abstract], [handout]

    3:25 PM

    Does Telugu have wh-movement? : Surprising findings from native speakers

    C. Jane Lutken, Anhiti Dharmapuri and Karin Stromswold [abstract]

    Prosody reveals syntactic structure: Secondary predication in metrical finite corpus data

    Anabelle Caso [abstract], [slides]

    3:45 PM

    Coffee Break

    LDC Kitchen

    4:00 PM

    KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 (VIRTUAL)

    Streaming to: LDC Main Function Room, LDC Conference Room

    Heidi Harley

    University of Arizona,
    Professor of Linguistics

    nP-internal arguments, agency, causation and Relation R

    [handout]

    5:30 PM

    Break

    6:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM

    RECEPTION

    3401 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, room 401B (4th floor seminar room)
    Catering by Di Bruno Bros.. Drinks will be provided.
    More information will be provided on the day of the event.

    SUNDAY, March 19, 2023
    8:00 AM

    Registration & Breakfast

    3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Main Lobby
    Coffee & bagels will be provided in the LDC Kitchen.

    9:00 AM

    SESSION 4A: Syntax/Semantics Interface (2 talks)

    LDC Main Function Room

    SESSION 4B: Historical Linguistics (2 talks)

    LDC Conference Room

    9:00 AM

    Superiority effects and the French Plural Pronoun Construction

    Adèle Hénot-Mortier [abstract], [slides]

    Language-internal evidence for resisting contact-induced change in Gascon and Languedocien

    Kaitlyn Owens [abstract], [slides]

    9:27 AM

    Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic: Exploring the role of noun type

    Aya Zarka and Aviya Hacohen [abstract], [slides]

    On the timing of multiple exponence: Evidence from Arapgir and Erzurum Armenian verbs

    Nikita Bezrukov [abstract], [slides]

    9:55 AM

    Coffee Break

    LDC Kitchen

    10:30 AM

    Poster Session

    LDC Main Function Room

    Lexical, Phrase and Contrastive Stress: Similarities and Differences

    Sten Knutsen, Jinnie Pang, Sue Peppé and Karin Stromswold [abstract], [poster]

    Compartmentalization in Middle Ottoman Turkish

    Darragh Winkelman [abstract], [poster]

    The Italian negative system: expletiveness as a consequence of a diachronic change in the syntactic status of negation

    Matteo Greco [abstract], [poster]

    Cars and trucks [with permits]: Resolving legal ambiguities with psycholinguistic data

    Janet Randall, Lawrence Solan, Anna Petti, Sofia Caruso, Manav Mehta, Rajvi Shah and Harrison Naftelberg [abstract]

    Stuck with stems: Domains in phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Armenian verbs

    Nikita Bezrukov and Hossep Dolatian [abstract]

    Why would you D that? On the D-layer in Greek clausal subjects

    Katya Morgunova and Anastasia Tsilia [abstract], [poster], [handout]

    English Prosody Comprehension in Heritage Speakers: Is One's Mother's Tongue the Same as One's Mother Tongue?

    Sten Knutsen, Shreya Sekar, Sue Peppé and Karin Stromswold [abstract], [poster]

    The effects of derivational properties on the processing of structurally congruent phrases: Evidence from resumptive pronouns in Egyptian Arabic and English

    Yourdanis Sedarous [abstract]

    Non-native Comprehension and Perception of a Japanese Dialect Spoken in Yamagata

    Mai Miura [abstract]

    Root Small Clauses in Greek

    Patricia Schneider-Zioga [abstract], [poster]

    Probing the Learning Capabilities of RNN Seq2seq Models

    Zhengxiang Wang [abstract], [poster]

    Czech "Se": Multiple Functions Are Better Than One

    Nikola Datkova [abstract]

    A Syntactic Construction Motived by Discourse : Repetitive Right Dislocation

    Dursun Altinok [abstract]

    Separating focus and contrast in Romance: insights from Camuno

    Matteo Fiorini [abstract], [poster]

    11:45 AM

    Lunch Break

    LDC Kitchen
    Catering by Di Bruno Bros.

    1:00 PM

    KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2

    LDC Main Function Room

    Keith Johnson

    University of California, Berkeley,
    Professor of Linguistics

    Vowels in the brain

    2:30 PM

    Coffee Break

    LDC Kitchen

    2:45 PM

    SESSION 5A: Morphology (3 talks)

    LDC Main Function Room

    SESSION 5B: Language Processing (3 talks)

    LDC Conference Room

    2:45 PM

    A recipe for readjustment - the view from Telugu

    Akshay Aitha [abstract], [handout]

    Adults behaving childishly: errors in adult responses to wh-questions

    C. Jane Lutken and Karin Stromswold [abstract]

    3:12 PM

    A Case of "Elsewhere Reversal" in Iranian Armenian Verbs

    Jordan Kodner and Hossep Dolatian [abstract]

    How much is too much? The impact of redundancy on syntax

    Giacomo Presotto [abstract], [handout]

    3:40 PM

    Root Infinitives and the Acquisition of Morphological Marking

    Sarah Payne [abstract]

    Breaking Defaults: Grammar vs. Discourse

    Marisa Nagano [abstract]

    4:10 PM

    Break

    4:10 PM

    Abstract Award Conferral &
    Conference Conclusion

    LDC Main Function Room
    Thank you for coming to PLC47, and cheers to seeing each other in person again!