Stanford linguists at LSA Annual Meeting 2026

The Linguistics Society of America’s 2026 Annual Meeting was held on Jan 8-11, 2026 in New Orleans, LA. Many Stanford linguists presented talks or posters:

• Tilly Brooks: "shall usage in legal texts is motivated by genre, not writing process or content" (poster)
• Grace Brown: "Rural mid-Michigan Speech: An exploration of identity and perception" (talk)
• Ariel Chan, Grace Wong, Charlotte Burnham: "The Impact of Bilinguals’ Language Dominance on Voice Onset Time in Code-Switching" (poster)
• Melissa Cronin: "Encoding Past Temporal Reference in 'Used to'" (talk)
• Adolfo Hermosillo: "Localizing Global Trends: Intensifier Variation across Five Mexican Cities" (talk)
• Emiyare Ikwut-Ukwa: "Dorsals are the Least-Marked Codas in Obolo" (talk)
• Jasper Jian and Büşra Marşan: "Islandhood, Agreement, and Hierarchy Effects in Turkish Comitative (Non-)Coordination" (talk)
• Oliver Lee: "An OT analysis of trochaic inversion in English meter" (poster)
• Seungho Nam, Seo-young Lee, Se Yeon Park: "QUD sensitivity as a parameter of presupposition triggers: Evidence from Korean" (talk)
• Joseph Sarmenta (M.A. '25): "The Hidden D-Layer in Tagalog Nominal Phrases: Evidence from Proper Names" (talk)
• Saahil Sundaresan: "Stress-Information Alignment as a Property of Natural Language" (poster)