LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts

The LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts (ExtAbs) are detailed abstracts based on presentations given at the LSA Annual Meeting. They are published after the meeting in an Open Access format on eLanguage.net, the LSA'S electronic publishing platform.

 


LSA Meeting Extended Abstracts 2011

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Articles

Perception and representation of Mandarin fricatives
Yu-an Lu
 
Neighborhood density and word frequency in child German
Aleksandra Zaba, Thomas Schmidt
 
Resumptive Pronouns in Chinese Passives
Ting Xu
 
A phase theoretic account of coreference relations in picture DPs
Jason Ginsburg, Sandiway Fong
 
Nonfamiliarity and indefinite descriptions
Barbara Abbott, Laurence R. Horn
 
A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen
Hijo Kang, Seongyeon Ko
 
On the grammaticalization of nominalization marker =ay in Kavalan and Amis: a contrastive study
Haowen Jiang
 
Severing Scale Structure from the Adjective
Edward Matthew Husband
 
Aspect under (and out of) control in Mandarin Chinese
Thomas Grano
 
Negative word-order patterns among Breton-speaking adults and children
Holly Jane Winterton
 
Infants Use Prosody to Learn About Clauses
Kara E Hawthorne
 
Elliptical constructions and underlying clefts
Joanna Nykiel
 
Types of Degree Questions: Consequences of Different Adjective Classes
Katy McKinney-Bock
 
Rising intonation and uncertainty
Erin Zaroukian
 
Vowel hiatus and Dispersion Theory
Erika Varis
 
One =Mi: An Evidential, Epistemic Modal, and Focus Marker
Iksoo Kwon
 
Sentential adverb frankly as modifier of a deleted speech verb
Hector Velasquez
 
Relative clauses in Asheninka Perene (Arawak)
Elena I Mihas
 
Parisitic Gap Constructions in Lebanese Arabic: Resumption as Pied-piping
Youssef A. Haddad
 
I love me some Jiminy Glick: The semantic contribution of 'some' in personal dative constructions
Liela Edel Rotschy
 
Quantitative data as a clue to auxiliary contraction processes
Laurel MacKenzie
 
Crossover and ethical pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese
Ana C Bastos-Gee
 
Perceptual Cues to Lexical Tone in Burmese
James Gruber
 
Uncommon Common Grounds and the Korean Reportative Evidential –tay
Joo Yoon Chung
 
Cross-linguistic variation in 'before'-clauses
Yael Sharvit, Lyn Shan Tieu
 
What Determiners can do: Data from Mopan Maya
Ellen Contini-Morava, Eve Danziger
 
Why Prosody Matters: Surface Scope Bias in Russian Quantifier Scope
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina
 
The level of perception of illusory vowels
Jiwon Hwang, Ellen Broselow
 
"No news is good news": The Quantifier/State-of-Affairs ambiguity in English
Neal Whitman
 
Nonlinear development of speaking rate in child-directed speech
Eon-Suk Ko
 
Reflexives and blocking effects in Iron Range English
Sara Schmelzer Loss
 
Fast mapping from argument structure alone
Sudha Arunachalam, Sandra R. Waxman
 
Licensing of the NPI ʕumr and its implications for sentential negation in Cairene Egyptian Arabic
Usama Soltan
 
Probabilistic Modeling of Tone Perception: Autosegmental ‘targets’ are insufficient
Deepti Ramadoss
 
The effect of lexical stratum on perception of contrast
Ellen Broselow, Marie Huffman, Jiwon Hwang, Yu-an Lu, Jennifer Park, Jessica Fareri
 
Functional significance of rising-intonation declaratives in settings with special discursive norms
Michael A. Shepherd
 
Frozen Scope and WCO: New Insights into the Structure of Russian Ditransitives
Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina, John Bailyn
 
Acquisition of English verb transitivity by native speakers of Japanese
Tomonori Nagano
 


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