Poster Session: Wednesday July 12

1	Mengchen Li, Macao Polytechnic University	“The Cognitive Principles of Iconicity in Language and Their Application in English-Chinese Translation”
2	Maik Thalmann and Andrea Matticchio, University of Göttingen	“No Hard Feelings, Karttunen: When Hard Presuppositions Project”
3	Yitong Luo, Peking University	“Non-assertiveness and Not-at-issueness: Laizhe in Beijing Mandarin”
4	Jiamu Zhu, Peking University	“Recombination in Chinese Word Pattern ‘X-hua51’ ”
5	Jiarui Zhang, University of Oxford	“Question tune in Guanzhong Mandarin”
6	Ashley Yount, University of Hawai’i at Manoa	“Duration as an Acoustic Correlate of Distinctive Features”
7	Shen Ching-Syuan, National Chengchi University	“Identifying Sortal Classifiers in Korean”
8	Emma Breslow, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and Caroline Hendy, Australian National University	“The macher wears a yarmi: A comparative study of Australian and American familiarity with Jewish English lexical items”
9	Andrew Kato, University of California, Santa Cruz	“Deriving anaphoric co-argumenthood and predicate binding”
10	Cor Zanda, University of California, Berkeley	“Morphosyntactic Changes in the Polynesian Thematic Suffixes”
11	Olivia Waring, University of Hawai’i at Manoa	“Auto-Transcription of Endangered Sign Languages Using Object Detection and Colocalization Analysis”
12	Madison Liotta, University of Hawai’i at Manoa	“A Preliminary Typology of Vowel Devoicing”
13	Yanting Li, Gregory Scontras, and Richard Futrell, University of California, Irvine	“Evidence for efficiency in Mandarin Chinese abbreviations”
14	Auromita Mitra, New York University	“Uncertainty, time, and modal-aspect interaction in Bangla conditionals”
15	Cassandra Caragine and Lydia Quevedo, University of Maryland, College Park	“Acquisition differences in Mayan languages: a prosodic account”
16	Solomeya Bagautdinova, University of Oslo	“Pseudo-imperatives in Russian”
17	Caihong Weng, Université Paris Cité	“Bilingual phonological contrast perception: The influence of Quanzhou Southern Min on Mandarin non-sibilant fricatives discrimination”
18	Fedor Golosov, University of Maryland, College Park	“Selection restrictions of the light verb p1r in Poshkart Chuvash: implications for the event structure of incremental predicates”
19	Hailang Jiang, University College London	“Mora-counting alternation of Japanese /g/ nasalization in compounds is not internalized”
20	Maria Evjen and Sverre Stausland Johnsen, University of Oslo	“An acoustic analysis of the Norwegian merger of /S/ and /¸c/”
21	Chihiro Taguchi, University of Notre Dame	“Incorporating AI-based Speech Transcription into Language Documentation: A case study of Imbabura Kichwa”
22	Dorotea Bevivino, Giuseppina Turco, and Barbara Hemforth, Université Paris Cité	“Breaking the French Accentual Phrase: Does Priming Prosodic Phrasing Modulate Sentence Processing?”
23	Dingyi Pan, Jiayi Lu, and Judith Degen, Stanford University	“Evidence for a Discourse Account of Manner-of-Speaking Islands”
24	Xiao Dong, Fengming Liu, Monica Nesbitt, and Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Indiana University	“Neutral Tone and Place Orientation in Beijing: An Update on Beijing Yuppies”
25	Priyanka Kharbanda, Western Sydney University	“Few observations from the latest fieldwork –word-formation strategies in Iwaidja”
26	Zihe Li and Wenjun Huang, Nanjing University	“The actuation and diffusion of cognate borrowing: the case of Guangshan variety of Chinese”
27	Connor Rodenbeck, University of Delaware	“Towards a Functional Explanation of the Quotative Be like: A Comparison of Mood in Say & Be like”
28	Tran Truong and Nathan Thompson, Pennsylvania State University	“Vocative suppletion & syncretism in Tariana”
29	Suyuan Liu, University of British Columbia	“Do speech models develop human-like perception? A comparison between English stop voicing classification by humans and wav2vec2”
30	Mafuyu Kitahara, Sophia University, Kiyoko Yoneyama, Daito-Bunka University, and Keiichi Tajima, Hosei University	“Stress levels in Japanese-accented English: Analysis of corpus and production data”
31	Angela Cao, University of Rochester, Atticus Geiger and Elisa Kreiss, Stanford University	“Causing, enabling, and preventing verbs with structural causal models”
32	Chang Wang and Jie Zhang, University of Kansas	“Investigating the Variability of External Sandhi Application – A Case Study of Morpho-syntactically Complex Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi”
33	Ma Ying, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing	“Exploring phonological encoding units in Mandarin Chinese spoken production: Evidence from a picture-naming paradigm”
34	Junseon Hong, Seoul National University	“The Semantics and Pragmatics of English Rising Declaratives”
35	Samuel Kennedy, University of Minnesota	“Taiwanese complementizer k´ong and Sentence-Final Particles in a Split CP”
36	Veronica Burrage, University of Rochester	“Three-Participant Serial Verbs in LFG: A Papuan Case Study”
37	Brianna O’Boyle, San Diego State University	“WeChat Usage and Emoji Ratings”
38	Jian-Leat Siah, University of California, Los Angeles	“Learnability of prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication”
39	Eva Neu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst	“Variable agreement with conjoined subjects in German”
40	Jack Yuanfan Yin, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland, College Park	“Do children overuse “the” phrases?”
41	Ivy Hauser, University of Texas at Arlington	“Persistence of alveopalatal assimilation across speech styles in Mandarin”
42	Vanessa Sheu and Elaine Francis, Purdue University	“Syntactic or semantic sensitivity? Comparing L1, L2, and heritage speaker incremental sentence processing in spoken Mandarin”
43	Ebony Pearson, Van Liceralde, Wei Lai, and Duane Watson, Vanderbilt University	“Stick a pen in it: Greater phonological competition in speakers with the pin-pen merger”
44	Marjorie Bates and Deanna Gagne, Gallaudet University	“Naive perception of abstract meaning in iconic signs”
45	Wei-Hsuan Cathy Chien, National Taiwan Normal University	“On verb copying constructions in Mandarin Chinese”
46	Skyler Jove Reese, Masoud Jasbi, and Emily Morgan, University of California, Davis	“Elastic Word Length in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus Analysis”
47	Liza Sulkin, Boston University	“Russian elision as lenition to zero”

Abstract Submissions (closed)

Your abstract can address any linguistic topic, but we especially encourage abstracts that address the theme of this year’s Institute – Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Universality and Variation.

Deadline for submission: 11:59pm, July 6, 2023 (anywhere in the world)


Abstract guidelines
Abstracts are not anonymous, so your abstract should begin with a title, followed by the author(s)’s name(s) and affiliation(s). Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. Paper size should be US letter, margins should be at least 1 inch (= 2.54cm) on all sides. Font should not be smaller than 11 point for any text, including figures, table captions, and references. Please ensure that labels for axes and legends in any figures are legible. Only PDFs accepted. Your abstract should be in a form and have content that you would be happy for everyone attending the Institute to see.

Submission Information
Submit your abstract here.

Once abstracts have been accepted to the poster sessions, they will be available for review by Institute participants and others after May 31st.

Please direct your questions to lsainstituteposter@umass.edu.