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Like Arnold, I'm at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). You can see a .pdf copy of the program here. (The one on the LSA's website seems to be restricted to members only, so I've made a bootleg copy for outsiders, in the spirit of the scriptural injunction "Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?")
If you see a presentation whose title especially interests you, let me know, and if I have time, I'll see if I can find some additional information about it. Of course, you could also try Google — thus the very first presentation on the program is Alejandrina Cristià and Amanda Seidl, "Linguistic sources of individual differences in speech processing in infancy"; and searching for the title turns up a one-page abstract. In other cases, you may be able to find a set of powerpoint slides or even a full paper.
bulbul said,
January 9, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Could you please see if you can find out more about these two?
"Commas aren’t words: Punctuation metadata for MT word alignment"
"Frequency effects and the lexical split in the use of [t], [s], [d], and [z] in Syrian Arabic"
All I got from uncle Google was the preliminary program of the LSA meeting.
Thank you very much.
[(myl) I went to the Syrian Arabic talk, but there was no handout, and I'm not going to try to do justice to the complicated data patterns from memory. The Commas presentation is in a poster session tomorrow. I've written to both authors to ask for their slides or poster or whatever, and will report further when I learn more. ]
Edith Maxwell said,
January 9, 2009 @ 11:57 am
Ah, this reminds me of a contribution I made to a collection of linguistic humor, Son of Lingua Pranca, that fellow graduate students Ernst and Smith at Indiana University edited about 30 years ago (now available online here: http://specgram.com/SoLP/00.contents.html). I submitted "The Abstract Abstract," a plausible-sounding but entirely content-free abstract. Fond memories. Now I write technical documentation for software companies – no abstraction allowed!
Amanda Seidl said,
January 9, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Did you go to Alex's session? If so, I'm curious what you thought.
[(myl) No, unfortunately there are far too many parallel sessions, and I spent the Thursday afternoon time-slot in a session on "Length". ]
Edith Maxwell said,
January 9, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Sorry – that particular link to Son of Lingua Pranca stops at the contents. Go here http://specgram.com/SoLP/02.ernst.introduction.html and keep clicking the right arrow to get all of the articles.
Adrian Morgan said,
January 9, 2009 @ 9:43 pm
How can one possibly choose between so many intriguing topics such as:
* Anne Pycha: Restrictions on boundary lengthening: A test case for the phonetics-phonology interface
* Matthew L. Juge: The overlooked role of analogy in the development of suppletion
* Laura Kertz: Ellipsis effects without ellipsis
* Lal Zimman: One of these things is not like the other: Why power matters for the study of gay-sounding voices
* Adam Schembri: No agreement on agreement in signed languages: Are we missing the point?
* Irit Meir, Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler: The evolution of verb classes and verb agreement in signed languages
* Diane Brentari: Grammatical regularities at the interfaces: When does a system become phonological?
* Rebecca Morley: How likely are impossible languages? An experimental study of epenthesis
* Nathan Sanders, Jaye Padgett: Exploring the role of production in predicting vowel inventories
* Peter Graff: Studying the culture-phonology interface
and so on? I feel I've done well to narrow them down to ten.
Nassira Nicola said,
January 9, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Adrian –
I went to the Zimman, Schembri, Meir et al, and Brentari talks – and may I say, having seen them, that you have excellent taste!
Trey Jones said,
January 10, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
@Edith Maxwell: Here's the link you want.. The Abstract Abstract.