Stanford linguists at the LSA 2018

Stanford linguists will be in Salt Lake City, UT for the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January. Current students, post-docs and faculty presenting papers or posters include: 

• Emily Lake presenting "Persona recovery as a primary pragmatic process in the interpretation of implicit content"
• Sara Kessler presenting "The Structured Acquisition of Dimensional Adjective Antonyms: Evidence from Hebrew"
• Bonnie Krejci presenting "Animacy and Agreement with Conjoined Nominals in Russian"
• Masoud Jasbi, Akshay Jaggi, and Michael Frank presenting "The Acquisition of Disjunction from Child Directed Speech"
• Simon Todd presenting "Exceptionality and Faithfulness in Polish Stress: Comparing mono- and multistratal approaches"
• Michael Henry Tessler, Judith Degen, Charles Jacob Foster, Chakia Hall-Watley, and Noah D. Goodman presenting "People are strange: Investigating naturally occuring generics"
• Rebekah Baglini, with co-presenter Arthur Hjorth from Northwestern University, presenting "Identifying Sound-Symbolism in the Lexicon of an Underrepresented Language: An NLP-Assisted Approach"
• Katherine Hilton presenting "Competing for the floor: The interruptiveness of topic shifts and disagreements"
• Zion Mengesha presenting "The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English"
• Masoud Jasbi presenting "Uniqueness is not unique to definites"
• Prerna Nadathur presenting "Implicative behavior and casuality in 'enough' and 'too' constructions"
• Lelia Glass presenting "Deriving the (non)distributivity potential of adjectives"
• Teresa Pratt presenting "Embodying toughness: LOT-raising, /l/-velarization, and retracted articulatory setting"
• Sunwoo Jeong, with co-presenters alumna Seung Kyung Kim and James Sneed German from Aix Marseille University in France, presenting "The Social Component of Phonetic Recalibration in Speech Perception"
• Sabrina T. Grimberg presenting "Resolving Subject Doubling in Colloquial Finnish via Chain Resolution"