QP Fest 2025: The 22nd Annual QP Fest

Session 1 Chair: Irene Yi

12:30-12:50 Anton de la Fuente - Constructing language difference in O Grove

12:50-1:10 Busra Marsan - Benchmarking Large Language Models on Turkish: A SMARTr-NLI Approach to Evaluating Linguistic Competency

1:10-1:30 Yin Lin Tan - Doing fast and slow: Qualitative differentiation among house dancers in Singapore

1:30-1:50 Melissa Cronin - On the decomposition and anteriority of 'used to'

1:50 - 2:00 Break

Session 2 Chair: Wilfred Fimone

2:00-2:20 Emily Goodwin - Syntactic Choice Is Shaped by Fine-Grained, Item-Specific Knowledge

2:20-2:40 Grace Brown - The role of /s/-frontness in the construction of perceived speaker masculinity

2:40-3:00 Irene Yi - Mountain vs. Town: Axes of Differentiation in Ganguhua /l/ Alveo-palatalization Variation

3:00-3:20 Jasper Jian - Abstraction drives language learning in transformer LMs

3:20 - 3:30 Break 

Session 3 Chair: Will Clapp

3:30-3:50 Jonathan WuWong - Local Meanings on Immigrant Tongues: START fronting among Cantonese-English Immigrants

3:50-4:10 Katie Johnson - Focus and clefts in Tiriki: evidence for hyperactivity

4:10-4:30 Ahmad Jabbar - Distinguishing fair from unfair compositional generalization tasks

4:30 - 6:00 Social in the Linguistics Courtyard