2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) talks and posters
BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January!
Talks:
Robert Bayley, Xinye Zhang, Daniel Erker, Rafael Orozco and Gregory Guy: Subject pronoun expression and heritage languages: The effects of language and dialect contact.
Michael Everdell and Prerna Nadathur: The ingredients of frustration: a study of two frustrative particles in O’dam.
Discourse and Pragmatics session, January 10, 9-10:30 am.
Michael Everdell: Recipients are syntactically and semantically distinct from benefactives: Evidence from the O’dam language of Durango, Mexico.
Syntax III, January 12, 12-1:30 pm.
Liza Sulkin and Amelia Tighe: Uncovering identity in lesbian voices: an analysis of variation in vowels and creak.
Queer Linguistics session: January 11, 3:30-4 pm.
Liza Sulkin: Analyzing acoustic correlates of gender presentation in the lesbian community.
Language, Gender, and Sexuality session, January 12, 10:15-11:45 am.
Yuanyuan Zhang: How can zenme(yang) be so?
Semantics II session, January 11, 1:45-3:15 pm.
Chris K. C. Lee: Perceptual cue weighting transfer from L1 Hong Kong Cantonese to L3 Standard Mandarin: The case of prosodic focus marking.
Speech Perception session: January 10, 9:00 – 10:30 am.
Posters:
Andre Batchelder-Schwab: The sonority hierarchy of Whistled Kinande: The case of /h/.
January 12, 8:30-10:00 am.
Brady Dailey: Tonogenesis in Northern Pomo: Lexical tone from pitch-accent, not loss of segmental contrasts.
January 11, 10:45 am-12:15 pm.
For more information and the full schedule, refer to the LSA website https://www.lsadc.org/.