Andrés Buxó-Lugo University of Maryland Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody Online Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. However, how listeners use the prosodic signal …

Glenn Starr UW-Madison The Shallow Structure Hypothesis: L1 vs. L2 Processing of Scalar Implicatures  Online A considerable amount of research has emerged recently concerning second language (L2) learner sensitivity to various information types. From this, …

Josh Brown UW-Eau Claire Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch  Online As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its functional orientation from communicative to symbolic. This stage in the life of a language is termed the …

On the relationship between form and information content Cassandra Jacobs, UW-Madison Research Associate in Psychology Zipf (1949) famously demonstrated that longer words are typically less frequent. However, more recent work has suggested that word frequency …

The probability of saying a word depends on form properties of recent utterances Mark Koranda, UW-Madison Graduate Student, Psychology

is the new : On glottalization in Wisconsin English. Sarah Holmstrom & Charlotte Vanhecke UW-Madison, Linguistics PhD program Online - contact rashields@wisc.edu for the link. While /t/-glottalization has been a well-attested phenomenon since the 1940s, …

Preposition Placement in Wh-Relative Clauses Among Speakers of American English Grady Kepler UW-Madison, English This study investigates acceptability judgements of native speakers of American English, specifically examining the preposition placement in wh-relative clauses. In wh-relative …

Building verbs in Yucatec Maya out of lexical roots from Spanish: The role of form and meaning Grant Armstrong UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese The goal of this talk is to contribute to our understanding of …

This week the Phonology Reading Group will meet to discuss the following paper: Nikolaev & Grossman (2020) "Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle" Phonology. Contact Becky Shields to be added to our mailing list …

When interference in language production gets lexicalized: The case of expletive negation Yanwei Jin & Jean-Pierre Koenig University at Buffalo In this talk, we explore this hypothesis that expletive negation (EN) is caused by general …