Variation as a perspective on the interaction between language processing and cognition: Insights from sign language and bilingualism Anne Therese Frederiksen, UC-Irvine Languages are highly similar in how referring expressions are selected and resolved across …

Just Linguistics John Baugh, Washington University in St. Louis Various linguistic methods have been utilized to promote the advancement of justice and equality throughout the world. Just Linguistics presents an overview of several instances where …

Constraints on theories of language processing Andrea Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Human language is an example of a formally-describable system that is both statistical and algebraic. As such, its computational properties are markedly …

Speech errors from an articulatory perspective; is there more than meets the ear? Anneke Slis, UW-Madison, Communication Sciences & Disorders For decades, the production and correction of speech errors has been a valuable source of …

Multilingual NLP: Cross-lingual Transfer Learning and Applications Junjie Hu, UW-Madison, Biostatistics & Computer Science Over the last decade, the phenomenal success of NLP systems has been mostly driven by deep neural networks and supervised machine …

Negative Analogy: A New Direction for Analogical Change Fernando Tejedo (UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese) and Jason Doroga (Ouachita Baptist University)   Analogy is generally described in historical linguistics as a mechanism of linguistic change that …

To Be, You Need a Place: A Diachronic Outlook of Current Existential and Locative Expressions in Ibero-Romance Luis Fernando Vazquez, UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese This study explores the current situation of thetic (i.e., existential) and …

Documenting Switch Reference in A'ingae Scott AnderBois, Brown University In this talk, I present an overview of the A'ingae Language Documentation Project, a collaborative project to document A'ingae (Cofán, ISO code: con), and isolate spoken …