LSA 2002 Annual Meeting Program

The authors and titles of papers to be presented in January are listed by day and session in alphabetical order by the author's last name. A complete program including times and room assignments will be available in the Annual Meeting Handbook.

The meeting will begin on Thursday, 3 January, with invited plenary addresses at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM. The last sessions are scheduled to finish by 12:00 PM on Sunday, 6 January.

Thursday Evening, 3 January

Friday Morning, 4 January

Symposium: Basic Tools for Linguistic Documentation
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Inst-Leipzig)
Languages & genes: Evidence from the Caucasus
Sean Crist (Swarthmore C)
An analysis of *z loss in West Germanic
Shoko Hamano (George Washington U)
A constraint-based reanalysis of the weakening of the labial obstruent in Japanese
Adita Lahiri (U Konstanz) & Astrid Kraehenmann (U Konstanz)
Notker's Anlautgesetz & initial geminates in Alemannic
R. W. Murray (Univ Calgary)
Syllable cut studies in English phonology: John Hart (1551) as pioneer
Mary Paster (UC-Berkeley)
Vowel height harmony & blocking in Buchan Scots English
Marc Pierce (U MI)
Exceptions to Sievers' law in Gothic: Sound change, analogy, or both?
Andrea Sims (OH SU)
Reining in analogy: Evidence from Slavic for frequency as a constraining factor

Barbara Abbott (MI SU)
Against a descriptive theory of proper names
Ron Artstein (Rutgers U)
The semantics of phonological decomposition
Ivano Caponigro (UCLA)
The semantics of indefinite free relatives
Luis Gonzales (Wake Forest U)
Episodic -ee nouns in English: A natural class
Martin Hackl (U MD-College Park)
Essentially plural predicates & their relational counterparts
Gianluca Storto (UCLA)
On the compositional interpretation of Italian 'bare partitives'
Stephen Wechsler (U TX-Austin)
Resultatives, telicity, & the scalar structure of adjectives
Phillip Wolff (U Memphis) & Bianca Klettke (U Memphis)
English & German speakers & the perception of cause

Mamiko Akita (U Electro Comm)
The developmental stages of the acquisition of schwa by Japanese learners of English
Juliette Blevins (U Cambridge)
A reanalysis of the Yurok vowel system
Michael Cahill (SIL)
Dissimilation of /r/ in Konni
Roderic Casali (SIL)
In search of Yoruba+: [ATR] dominance & vowel inventory structure
Ewa Jacewicz (OH SU)
Relative formant amplitude in the perception of the tense-lax vowel distinction in English
Aditi Lahiri (U Konstanz)
Processing & representation of umlauted vowels
Henning Reetz (U Konstanz)
Tokayo Sugimoto (U Hamamatsu)
Asymmetry in Japanese vowel coalescence & constriction features
Alan Chi Lun Yu (UC-Berkeley)
Auditory robustness & duration of vocalic cues
Aleksandra Makarova (UC-Berkeley)

Benjamin Bruening (U DE)
Two types of wh-scope marking
Ivano Caponigro (UCLA) & Carson Schutze (UCLA)
Parameterizing passive participle movement
Barbara Citko (U UT)
A unified approach to left branch extraction & preposition stranding
Mike Dukes (Stanford U)
English quotative inversion: A constructional approach
Grant Goodall (U TX-El Paso)
V-initial clauses & the categorial status of locatives & temporals
Ana Gouvea (U MD-College Park)
Relative clause processing & its interaction with cross-linguistic syntactic properties
Rajesh Kumar (U IL-Urbana)
Overt licensing of NPIs [negative polarity items] in Hindi
Celine Rodrigues (U MD-College Park) & Acrisio Pires (U MD-College Park)
Null subjects on noninfinite adjuncts: Cases of remnant movement

Sarah Benor (Stanford U)
The chicken or the egg? A probabilistic OT analysis of English binomials
Katherine Crosswhite ( U Rochester), Joyce McDonough (U Rochester), and Michael Tanenhaus (U Rochester)
Online processing of onset-embedded words
Audra Dainora (MIT)
A probabilistic model of English intonation
Tania Granadillo (U AZ)
Pitch prominence occurs on critical information-no!
Malcah Yeager-Dror (U AZ)
Joanna Lowenstein (U Chicago)
Acoustic analysis of the speech of adults with cochlear implants: A case study
Kyoko Masuda (U AZ)
Context effects in the perception & production of English liquids by Japanese adults
Lorna Rozelle (U WA)
The inventory & distribution of handshape & location in four sign languages
Josef Ruppenhofer (UC-Berkeley)
Identifying verb classes: A comparison of lexical resources
Collin Baker (Intnl Compu Sci Inst)
Helen Stickney (U MA-Amherst)
Description of relative clauses in Nicaraguan Sign Language

Friday Afternoon, 4 January

Symposium: Bringing Linguistics into the Schools: Preparing K-12 Teachers & Curricula
Room: Grand Ballroom C
12:00 - 2:00 PM

Brady Clark (Stanford U)
A stochastic optimality theory approach to English clause structure change
Jeffrey Good (UC-Berkeley)
On the origin of a verb phrase template in Chechen & Ingush
Dianne Jonas (Yale U)
Recent change in Faroese experiencer constructions
Brian Joseph (OH SU)
Albanian-Greek negation parallels: Dialectology & contact in the Balkans
Kelly Lynne Maynard (U IL-Urbana)
Isogloss distributions in Albanian reflect the history of Balkan
convergence
Panayiotis Pappas (TX A&M U)
Weak object pronoun placement in later Medieval Greek & the limits of generalizations
David Peterson (TX Tech U)
From copula to ergative case clitic in Hakha Lai
John Whitman (Cornell U) & Dianne Jonas (Yale U)
Lexical bases for syntactic change
Esther Wood (UC-Berkeley)
The origin of the northern subject rule

David Beaver (Stanford U)
Anaphora resolution in optimality theory
William Croft (U Manchester), Johanna Barddal (Lund U), Willem Hollmann (U Manchester),Violeta Sotirova (U Manchester) , Chiaki Taoka
Revising Talmy's typological classification of complex events
Victor Friedman (U Chicago)
Interrogatives as diagnostic for tense marking in evidentials
Sotaro Kita (Max Planck Inst-Nijmegen), Asli Ozyurek (Kog U), Shanley Allen (Boston U), Amanda Brown (Boston U)
Cross-linguistic variation of iconic gestures accompanying motion event description.
Jenny Yi-chun Kuo (U MN-Mpls)
A pragmatic approach to the interpretations of Chinese bare nouns
Jacquelyn Rahman (Stanford U)
Semantic constraints on passivization in Caribbean English Creole
Gregory Ward (Northwestern U) & Sam Tilsen (Northwestern U)
Deferred equatives

Jennifer Fitzpatrick (U Konstanz)
Pitch accent on the predicate: A production experiment in Bengali
Nila Friedberg (U Toronto)
Elision, prominence, & meter in Brodsky's verse
Eon-Suk Ko (Penn)
A phonological & phonetic analysis of the Korean metrical system
Gaurav Mathur (U CT)
On the syntax-phonology interface in ASL: A case of residue
Rungpat Roengpitya (UC-Berkeley)
Duration-dependent allotones in standard Thai
John Ohala (UC-Berkeley)
Amanda Siedl (Johns Hopkins U)
Compounding masquerading as vowel elision
Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue U) & Aleix Martinez (Purdue U)
Physical correlates of prosodic structure in American Sign Language

Ash Asudeh (Stanford U)
Default unification as an alternative to optimality theory: A licensing theory for Finnish
Leslie Barrett ( Sem Data Systems) & Anthony Davis (Georgetown U)
Control of nominalizations in English
Incheol Choi (U TX-Austin) & Stephen Wechsler (U TX-Austin)
The Korean light verb construction as conspiracy between mixed categories & argument transfer.
Alice Davison (U IA)
The VP structure of two classes of experiencer predicates
Elaine Francis (U Hong Kong) & Stephen Mathews (U Hong Kong)
What does it take to make a category? The case of 'coverbs' in Cantonese
Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser U) & Cheong Youn (Kyungil U)
Korean experience: Dative subjects or i-nominals?
Jeffrey Lidz (Northwestern U)
The causative structure of resultatives
Alexander Williams (Penn)
Ke Zou (CSU-Hayward)
Two types of verb-noun compounds

Symposium: The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 PM

['The rules for resolutions and motions' may be requested from the LSA Secretariat at: lsa@lsadc.org.]

Friday Evening, 4 January

Saturday Morning, 5 January

Heike Behrens (Max Planck Inst-Leipzig)
The acquisition of German word order: From marked to unmarked
Laurent Dekydtspotter (IN U), Bonnie Schwartz (U Durham),Rex Sprouse (IN U)
Pouring the fire with gasoline: Questioning conclusions on L2 argument structure
Andrea Gualmini (U MD-College Park) & Stephen Crain (U MD-College Park)
Children don't lack any knowledge
Nina Kazanina (U MD-College Park) & Colin Phillips (U MD-College Park)
Russian children's comprehension of aspectual distinctions
Luisa Meroni (U MD-College Park), Andrea Gualmini (U MD-College Park), Stephen Crain (U MD-College Park)
Children would rather satisfy condition A than violate condition B
Anna Papafragou (Penn) & Julien Musolino (IN U)
The acquisition of scalar implicatures
Laura Wagner (Harvard U) & Peggy Li (Harvard U)
Children's comprehension of aspect in Mandarin

John Alderete (Rutgers U)
Cumulative markedness in [place] co-occurrence restrictions
Heidi Fleischhacker (UCLA) Onset transfer reduplication
Jason Haugen (U AZ) The basis for bases: Assigning reduplicative bases with
Catherine Kennard (U AZ) alignment constraints
Robert Kennedy (U AZ)
Rachel Hayes (U AZ) Do reduplication patterns in an English word game reflect phonotactic probabilities?
Ian Maddieson (UC-Berkeley) Typological patterns of phonological systems in geographical perspective
Peter Norquest (U AZ) Kinds of correspondence in Rotuman & Kwara'ae
Julia Weisenberg (SUNY-Stony Brook) Handshape markedness in American Sign Language loanwords
Alan Chi Lun Yu (UC-Berkeley) Floating mora & the stress-to-weight principle in Washoe

Ann Bunger (Northwestern U)
Spoken word recognition & grammatical category
Rachel Hayes (U AZ) & Michael Hammond (U AZ)
What phonological phenomena are affected by lexical frequency?
Mark Patkowski (Brooklyn C-CUNY)
Right hemisphere involvement in multilinguals during speech production
Madelaine Plauche (UC-Berkeley)
Explanations for the unidirectionality of stop consonant confusions
Liina Pylkkanen (MIT) & Alex Marantz (MIT)
Neutral mechanisms of spoken word recognition: Onsets & inhibition
Linnaea Stockall (MIT) & Alec Marantz (MIT)
Lexical activation: The effects of frequency, density & pronounceability on the M350
D. H. Whalen (Haskins Labs), Randall R. Benson (U CT), Matthew Richardson (Haskins Labs)
Use of speech processing areas of the brain in response to sinewave speech

Emily Bender (Stanford U)
Number names in Japanese: A head-medial construction in a head-final language
Judy Bernstein (William Patterson U)
Distinguishing heads & specifiers: Evidence from Walloon
Richard Larson (SUNY-Stony Brook) & Naoko Takahashi (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Order & interpretation in Japanese relative clauses
Philip Le Sourd (IN U)
Discontinuous noun phrases in Maliseet-Passamoquoddy
Haihua Pan and Jianhua Hu (City U Hong Kong)
Licensing dangling topics in Chinese
Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue U)
Phrase structure in American Sign Language (ASL) & Austrian Sign Language (OGS)
Ming Xiang (MI SU)
Modifier ordering in the Chinese NP
Hiroko Yamakido (SUNY-Stony Brook)
The nature of adjectival inflection in Japanese

Saturday Afternoon, 5 January

Matthew H. Ciscel (U SC)
Discourse & identity in independent Moldova
Joseph DeChicchis ( Kwansei Gakuin U)
Rival claims to indigenous status: Evidence from Taiwan
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford U)
Changes in Japanese honorification as cognitive reorganization
Karen Petronio (E KY U)
Variation of the sign 'yes' in tactile American Sign Language
Valerie Dively (Gallaudet U)
Kristin Precht (Kent SU)
Gender differences in affect, evidentiality, & hedging in American conversation
Tara Sanchez (Penn)
The pragmatic effect in morphological borrowing
Makiko Takekuro (UC-Berkeley)
Age-graded shift of gendered discourse among young Japanese females
Graham Thurgood (CSU-Chico)
Word order change & language contact: The data from Tsat
Fengxiang Li (CSU-Chico)
Suzanne Wertheim (UC-Berkeley)
Function words as an aspect of language attrition: Russian & Tatar

Sonya Bird (U AZ)
Dakelh ejectives: Evidence for new ways of classifying sounds
John Esling (U Victoria)
The laryngeal sphincter as an articulator: Tenseness, tongue root, & phonation in Yi & Bai
Petur Helgason (Stockholm U) & Catherine Ringen (U IA)
Voice & spread glottis in Swedish
Keith Johnson (OH SU)
Cherokee stops: Acoustic data from old & new recordings
Yoonjung Kang (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Phonetic knowledge in loanword adaptation: Adaptation of English word-final stops to Korean
Naomi Ogasawara (E MI U)
Japanese rendaku: A phonetic investigation
Bert Vaux (Harvard U)
Systemic vs feature-based markedness in laryngeal contrasts

Dan Beckett (Georgetown U)
Patterns of individual sound change
Tessa Bent (Northwestern U) Elvis & Priscilla:
The phonological conspiracy deepens
Saundra Wright (CSU-Chico)
Jennifer Hay (U Canterbury, New Zealand)
Ann Bradlow (Northwestern U)
Intertalker differences in clear speech production & perception
William Labov (Penn)
The theoretical basis for the classification of North American English dialects
Julie Lewis (UC-Berkeley)
Interlocutor gender & status effects on female speakers' pitch
A. Elliott Moreton (Johns Hopkins U)
Strengthening of diphthong upglides before [-voice] stops English

Brian Agbayani (CSU-Fresno) Epp asymmetries
Michael Dickey (Northwestern U) Minimal structure in gapping
Chris Kennedy (Northwestern U)
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse U) Two subject/nonsubject asymmetries
Ivan Sag (Stanford U) Rules & exceptions in the English auxiliary system
Pasha Siraj (Johns Hopkins U) Best left empty: Null arguments & Singaporean English
Daniela Isac (UQAM) The force of negative moods
Ed Zoerner (CSU-Dominguez Hills) Not to be pseudogapping
Brain Agbayani (CSU-Dominguez Hills)

Walt Wolfram (NC SU): Constructive controversy in linguistics: The development of African American Vernacular English

Sunday Morning, 6 January

Workshop: Programming for Linguists: An Overview & Tutorial
Room: Grand Ballroom B
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 AM

Adam Albright (UCLA) & Bruce Hayes (UCLA)
Rules vs analogy in English past tenses: A computational/experimental study
Luis Barragan (U AZ)
Cupeño verbal morphology & the theory of contextual allomorphy
James Blevins (U Cambridge, England)
Morphomic stem selection in conjugational systems
Kearsy Cormier (U TX-Austin)
Plural reference in American Sign Language: Effects on directionality
Samuel Hawk (Salk Inst) & Karen Emmorey (Salk Inst)
Serial verbs of motion in ASL reexamined
Laura Sabourin (U Groningen)
UG & the L2 processing of grammatical gender
Mark Volpe (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Japanese causatives: Lexical vs syntactic

Nancy Hall (U MA-Amherst)
Embedded syllables in Mohawk
Kristie McCrary (UCLA)
Empirical evidence for syllable structure in Italian
Evan Mellander (McGill U)
Prominence contours & diphthongal moraicity
Robert Podesva (Stanford U)
Segmental constraints on germinates & their implications for typology
Catherine Ringen (U IA) & Robert Vago (Queens C-CUNY)
Geminates: Heavy or long?
Yvan Rose (Brown U)
Markedness & word-final syllabification: Evidence from developing grammars
Jie Zhang (Harvard U)
The positional markedness nature of contour tone licensing

Bridget Copley (MIT)
Perfectivity on modals of ability
Paul Elbourne (MIT)
The problem of indistinguishable participants
Edward Garrett (U VA)
Interactional conditionals: Evidence from Tibetan
Lynn Nichols (Harvard U)
On a component of propositional attitudes in Burmese 'aspectual' khe
Eve Sweetser (UC-Berkeley)
Constructional semantics & pragmatic ambiguity: Even if & then
Marina Tudorova (Johns Hopkins U)
A unitary analysis of two types of the telic predicates
Christina Villafana (Georgetown U)
Reference-time flexibility & present perfect puzzle effects

Karlos Arregi (MIT)
Clausal pied-piping: Reconstruction or indirect dependency?
John Beavers (Stanford U)
Aspect & distribution of prepositional resultative phrases in English
Marianne Borroff (SUNY-Stony Brook) & Zheng Xu (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Predicate phrases as functional XPs
Jean Mark Gawron (San Diego SU)
Two kinds of determiners in DP
Laurence Horn (Yale U)
1 [does not equal] 3: Indexicality, reference, & the asymmetry of binding
Pylkkanen, Liina (MIT)
Verbal domains: Causative formation at the root, category, & phase levels
Neal Whitman (OH SU)
Predicative noun phrases & the reality of neutrality