About GLEAMSWelcome to GLEAMS 2018! GLEAMS (the Graduate Linguistics Expo at Michigan State) is Michigan State University’s Department of Linguistics and Languages’ departmental graduate student workshop, organized by the MSU Linguistics Student Organization. This workshop will showcase graduate work in phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and child language acquisition, giving graduate students the opportunity to present their work to colleagues within and outside the department. This year's invited speakers are Jason Shaw (Yale University) and Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). GLEAMS 2018 takes place November 2nd and 3rd, 2018.
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Event Schedule
Event |
Time |
Room |
Friday 11/2 1:00pm-5:05pm |
Wells B342 |
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Non-canonical argument realization (Yan Cong) |
1:35pm-2:05pm |
Wells B342 |
2:10pm-2:40pm |
Wells B342 |
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The Semantics of Basic Arithmetic (Adam Gobeski) |
2:45pm-3:15pm |
Wells B342 |
Coffee Break |
3:15pm-3:30pm |
Wells B342 |
3:30pm-5:00pm |
Wells B342 |
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Coffee and Fruit |
Saturday 11/3 10:00am-5:05pm |
Wells B342 |
Testing the independence of the semantic analyzer: An ERP study (Kaylin Smith and Ye Ma) |
10:35pm-11:05am |
Wells B342 |
Testing the phonological nature of lexical retuning (Scott Nelson) |
11:05am–11:35am |
Wells B342 |
Lunch (catered) |
11:45am-1:00pm |
Wells B342 |
1:00pm-2:30pm |
Wells B342 |
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Coffee Break |
2:30pm-2:45pm |
Wells B342 |
The role of underrepresented geminates in word segmentation (Sayako Uehara) |
2:45pm-3:15pm |
Wells B342 |
Modeling Acquisition of Number Morphology in Spanish (Amaresh Joshi) |
3:20pm-3:50pm |
Wells B342 |
Style and Attitude: The Social Evaluation of the BET Vowel (Matt Savage and Alex Mason) |
3:55pm-4:25pm |
Wells B342 |
4:30pm-5:00pm |
Wells B342 |
Keynote Talk Summaries
The What, Whether, and When of phonological structure in the speech signal
Jason Shaw (Yale University)
A long-standing assumption in linguistics is that speech articulation imparts to the acoustic signal certain phonologically relevant patterns to which listeners are finely tuned. Bloomfield (1935: 79) put it like this: “The speaker has been trained to make sound-producing movements in such a way that the phoneme features will be present in the sound waves, and he has been trained to respond only to these features and to ignore the rest of the gross acoustic mass that reaches his ears.”
Relating phonological knowledge to the continuous speech signal remains a major challenge, in part because existing phonetic heuristics for phonological structure are typically not robust to natural levels of variation in speech. The path forward, I’ll argue, is to develop analytical tools that factor natural variability into the analysis of how phonological structure shapes the phonetic signal...
Read the full abstract here
Relating phonological knowledge to the continuous speech signal remains a major challenge, in part because existing phonetic heuristics for phonological structure are typically not robust to natural levels of variation in speech. The path forward, I’ll argue, is to develop analytical tools that factor natural variability into the analysis of how phonological structure shapes the phonetic signal...
Read the full abstract here
Deconstructing Correlatives: Individuals and Properties -- the case of Georgian `rom' relatives
Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The literature on relativization makes reference to correlatives and internally headed relatives. Comparing Hindi-Urdu correlatives and `rom'-relatives in Georgian, we argue that these notions can be decomposed further. Correlatives have been taken to consist of an individual denoting free relative clause that is left-adjoined to a main clause that contains a demonstrative phrase associated with the free relative. `rom' relatives in Georgian satisfy half of this description- they are left peripheral clauses adjoined to a main clause which contains an associated demonstrative phrase. But we should that they on their own denote properties and not individuals. The definiteness found with Georgian correlatives is shown to follow from anaphora and not from the internal makeup of the relative clause. We propose that Georgian `rom' relatives can be seen as a kind of internally headed relative. This means that correlatives can be based on internally headed relatives as well as free relatives and that they can involve both individual anaphora and property anaphora.
Organizing Committee Members
Kaylin Smith Scott Nelson Rebecca Senn Ye Ma Danny Feldscher Josh Herrin Yan Cong Shai Salam Suzanne Evans Wagner (Director of Graduate Studies) |
Sponsored by
MSU Linguistics Graduate Program |