The following UofM-affiliated linguists will be giving talks this week-end at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Bridget L. Anderson (Old Dominion University) & Jennifer G. Nguyen (University of Michigan): A comparison of African American and white vowel patterns in America’s most segregated city

Konstantia Kapetangianni (University of Michigan): Deriving partial control with movement

Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro (University of Michigan): Reformulating the adjunction analysis of coordination

Susannah Levi (University of Michigan), David B. Pisoni (Indiana University), Joshua L. Radicke (Indiana University) & Jeremy L. Loebach (Indiana University): Beyond the McGurk effect: Audiovisual consonant cluster formation

Miki Obata (University of Michigan) & Haruko Matsui (University of Tsukuba): V-Raising in Japanese complex predicates: New evidence from suppression of LCC effects

Anna Babel has advanced to doctoral candidacy after passing her preliminary examinations in Anthropology and her QRP in Linguistics.  Anna is now off to Bolivia for the next year to conduct her doctoral field research.