Look Who’s Talking: Stanford Linguists at WCCFL 42

Several Stanford linguists gave talks at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), which took place at UC Berkeley on April 12-14:

• Emiyare Ikwut-Ukwa, Kushal Thaman, Annalisa Welinder, Arto Anttila, and Giorgio Magri: “Probabilistic syllable structure”
• Madelaine O’Reilly-Brown: “The subject extraction asymmetry in Uyghur relative clauses”
• Lian Wang: “Covert wh-head-movement in Mandarin Chinese”
• Anissa Zaitsu: “Long distance negative concord as successive cyclic movement of negation in African American English”