PLC47 Conference Program
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 |
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9:00 AM |
SESSION 1A: Syntax I (4 talks)LDC Main Function Room |
SESSION 1B: Sociolinguistics (4 talks)LDC Conference Room |
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9:00 AM |
Variable verb-stranding ellipsis in UyghurRobin Jenkins [abstract] |
Effects of talker's dialect labeling and listener's language experience on the perception of nasal codas in Shanghai Mandarin |
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9:27 AM |
Agreeing with only in CantoneseKa-Fai Yip [abstract], [slides], [handout] |
Null subjects in Portuguese and the typology of conditioning on variationGregory Guy [abstract], [slides] |
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9:55 AM |
Against evacuation movement in NP-ellipsisJohanna Benz, Martin Salzmann and Gesoel Mendes [abstract], [slides] |
The Effects of Sex and Autism Spectrum Disorder on ProsodySten Knutsen, Alexandra Kuziemski, Megan Kenny, Sue Peppé and Karin Stromswold [abstract], [slides] |
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10:22 AM |
Object Preference, Object Shift, & Omnivorous Number: The View from Phorhépecha Clitics |
Novel and changing social evaluations of all-lowercase and exclamation pointsLena Abirou, Alexandra Kerrigan, Jay Michell and Lacey Wade [abstract] |
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10:50 AM |
Coffee BreakLDC Kitchen |
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11:10 AM |
SESSION 2A: Syntax II (4 talks)LDC Main Function Room |
SESSION 2B: Semantics/Syntax (4 talks)LDC Conference Room |
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11:10 AM |
Distinct Double Nominative Constructions in Korean |
Every provides an implicit comparison class when each does notTyler Knowlton and Florian Schwarz [abstract] |
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11:37 AM |
Postverbal gwai in Cantonese: A syntactic approach to rhetorical questions |
Ordering expectation: The semantics of scalar only in Indian English |
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12:05 PM |
External Possession Constructions with Color Terms in Mandarin ChineseLiumao Zhong [abstract] |
A deficient indexical in British English: An analysis of singular 'us'Beccy Lewis [abstract] |
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12:32 PM |
Two classes of 'anyone': A contrastive analysis of amwu and nwukwu in Korean |
Definiteness in plural generics: Decomposing maximality |
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1:00 PM |
Lunch Break
LDC Kitchen |
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2:30 PM |
SESSION 3A: Syntax III (3 talks)LDC Main Function Room |
SESSION 3B: Phonology (3 talks)LDC Conference Room |
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2:30 PM |
Detecting the antecedent complexity on VPE resolution: effects of semantic plausibility |
A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers |
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2:57 PM |
Morpho-syntax governs the embeddability of Utterance Honorifics: Evidence from Burmese |
Maximal feature specification is feasible; minimal feature specification not so muchKyle Gorman and Charles Reiss [abstract], [handout] |
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3:25 PM |
Does Telugu have wh-movement? : Surprising findings from native speakersC. Jane Lutken, Anhiti Dharmapuri and Karin Stromswold [abstract] |
Prosody reveals syntactic structure: Secondary predication in metrical finite corpus dataAnabelle Caso [abstract], [slides] |
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3:45 PM |
Coffee BreakLDC Kitchen |
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4:00 PM |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 (VIRTUAL)Streaming to: LDC Main Function Room, LDC Conference Room Heidi HarleyUniversity of Arizona,Professor of Linguistics nP-internal arguments, agency, causation and Relation R[handout] |
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5:30 PM |
Break |
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6:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM |
RECEPTION
3401 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, room 401B (4th floor seminar room) |
SUNDAY, March 19, 2023 | |
8:00 AM |
Registration & Breakfast
3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Main Lobby |
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9:00 AM |
SESSION 4A: Syntax/Semantics Interface (2 talks)LDC Main Function Room |
SESSION 4B: Historical Linguistics (2 talks)LDC Conference Room |
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9:00 AM |
Superiority effects and the French Plural Pronoun Construction |
Language-internal evidence for resisting contact-induced change in Gascon and Languedocien |
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9:27 AM |
Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic: Exploring the role of noun type |
On the timing of multiple exponence: Evidence from Arapgir and Erzurum Armenian verbs |
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9:55 AM |
Coffee BreakLDC Kitchen |
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10:30 AM |
Poster SessionLDC Main Function Room |
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Lexical, Phrase and Contrastive Stress: Similarities and DifferencesSten Knutsen, Jinnie Pang, Sue Peppé and Karin Stromswold [abstract], [poster] |
Compartmentalization in Middle Ottoman Turkish |
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The Italian negative system: expletiveness as a consequence of a diachronic change in the syntactic status of negationMatteo Greco [abstract], [poster] |
Cars and trucks [with permits]: Resolving legal ambiguities with psycholinguistic dataJanet Randall, Lawrence Solan, Anna Petti, Sofia Caruso, Manav Mehta, Rajvi Shah and Harrison Naftelberg [abstract] |
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Stuck with stems: Domains in phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Armenian verbsNikita Bezrukov and Hossep Dolatian [abstract] |
Why would you D that? On the D-layer in Greek clausal subjectsKatya Morgunova and Anastasia Tsilia [abstract], [poster], [handout] |
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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 EnglishYourdanis Sedarous [abstract] |
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Non-native Comprehension and Perception of a Japanese Dialect Spoken in YamagataMai Miura [abstract] |
Root Small Clauses in Greek |
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Probing the Learning Capabilities of RNN Seq2seq Models |
Czech "Se": Multiple Functions Are Better Than One |
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A Syntactic Construction Motived by Discourse : Repetitive Right DislocationDursun Altinok [abstract] |
Separating focus and contrast in Romance: insights from Camuno |
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11:45 AM |
Lunch Break
LDC Kitchen |
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1:00 PM |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2LDC Main Function Room Keith JohnsonUniversity of California, Berkeley,Professor of Linguistics Vowels in the brain |
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2:30 PM |
Coffee BreakLDC Kitchen |
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2:45 PM |
SESSION 5A: Morphology (3 talks)LDC Main Function Room |
SESSION 5B: Language Processing (3 talks)LDC Conference Room |
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2:45 PM |
A recipe for readjustment - the view from TeluguAkshay Aitha [abstract], [handout] |
Adults behaving childishly: errors in adult responses to wh-questions |
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3:12 PM |
A Case of "Elsewhere Reversal" in Iranian Armenian Verbs |
How much is too much? The impact of redundancy on syntax |
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3:40 PM |
Root Infinitives and the Acquisition of Morphological Marking |
Breaking Defaults: Grammar vs. DiscourseMarisa Nagano [abstract] |
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4:10 PM |
Break |
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4:10 PM |
Abstract Award Conferral &
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