All talks will take place on Saturday, December 1, 2018 in the seminar room of the SBU Institute for Advanced Computational Science. The reception will take place in the seminar room of Linguistics Department.
The complete program is available as a PDF download here.
09:00 – 09:55 Registration
09:55 – 10:00 Opening remarks
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: Computational Linguistics
- Luke Lindemann (Yale): Entropy and (Mis)transcription in an Undeciphered Medieval Manuscript
- Hussein Ghaly (CUNY): Using prosody to improve parsing by selecting from an ensemble of dependency parsers
- Dustin Bowers (University of Arizona) and Yiding Hao (Yale): Rhythmic Syncope and Strict Locality in Subregular Phonology
11:30 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:40 Session 2: Syntax/Morphology
- Andrija Petrovic (Stony Brook): Epenthesis and morphology: Serbo-Croation Stem Extenders
- Kate Mooney (NYU): Tagalog Voice isn’t all about Voice: Evidence from the Recent Past
12:40 – 01:30 Lunch break
01:30 – 02:30 Keynote speech
- Prof. Thomas Graf (Stony Brook): Subregular Syntax: the What, How, and Why
02:30 – 02:40 Coffee break
02:40 – 04:10 Session 3: Semantics/Discourse
- Omar Agha (NYU) and Alex Warstadt (NYU): Fragment Answers to Polar Questions
- Ekaterina Levitskaya (CUNY): Construction of Space through a lens of a Social Media Discourse Analysis
- Anna Alsop (NYU): Experimental Evidence for Contrastive Inferences in Japanese
04:10 – 04:20 Coffee break
04:20 – 05:50 Session 4: Phonetics/Phonology
- Michael Stern (CUNY): Revisiting the “Perceptual Magnet Effect”: Language Experience and Perceptual Warping
- Samuel Andersson (Yale): I’m Sorry but Time Travel Isn’t Real: Against Counterfeeding from the Past
- Veronica Miatto (Stony Brook): Vowel Insertion in the Italian Adaptation of English Loanwords