An analysis of Quechua’s pseudo-reflexive morphemes  Cailie Keating, undergraduate Linguistics and Spanish major, will present her Hilldale research project that she is completing with Professor Grant Armstrong. In person Reflexivity can generally be defined as …

What chain shifts tell us about phonological substance in sound change Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk David Natvig, University of Stavanger - Norway   Note time and location change! Hybrid modality: in person in Van Hise …

The Ease of Codeswitching: Testing processing cost through the prosodic structure of bilingual speech Michael A. Johns and Jonathan Steuck Pennsylvania State A fundamental question of sociolinguistic approaches to codeswitching (CS), defined as the fluid …

Menominee Sibilants Andrea Cudworth, UW-Madison   This paper analyzes sibilants in Menominee through the historical record and modern acoustic analysis. Menominee has maintained and , though they are no longer contrastive as they were in …

New Online Resources for Exploring Phonetic and Lexical Diversity across Language Families:  Sound Comparisons and IE-CoR Paul Heggarty, Max Planck Institute   Sound Comparisons is a database and website structure for exploring diversity in phonetics …

Signal evolution within the word Andy Wedel, University of Arizona Languages have been shown to optimize their lexicons over time with respect to amount of signal allocated to words: words that are on average less …

How arbitrary is spoken language? New evidence for iconicity Gary Lupyan, Department of Psychology, UW-Madison   It has been taken as self-evident that the relationship between word forms and meanings is arbitrary. Knowing what a …

Classifier Medials Across Algonquian: A First Look Jerome Biedny, Matthew Burner, Andrea Cudworth, & Monica Macaulay, UW-Madison   This paper presents a first look at verbal classifiers across a set of Algonquian languages: Blackfoot, Plains …