UM Linguists at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
The following UofM-affiliated linguists will be giving talks this week-end at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Acrisio Pires (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Jason Rothman (University of Iowa): Competence divergence across heritage grammar.
Barbra Meek (University of Michigan), Gerald Carr (University of Michigan): The IRB in the bush: Protocols for linguistic fieldwork from within Native North America.
Miki Obata (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Marlyse Baptista (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Complementizer-alternation in Cape Verdean Creole: New evidence for spec-head agreement.
John Lawler (University of Michigan): The Data Fetishist’s Guide to Assonance Coherence
Xinting Zhang (University of Michigan): Lexical decision in Standard Chinese: Factors influencing speed and accuracy.
Andries W. Coetzee (University of Michigan), Rigardt Pretorius (North-West University, South Africa): Tswana voiced plosives: Observing change-in-progress.
Sally Thomason will begin her year as the President of the Society.