Look Who’s Talking: Stanford Linguists at LSA

The LSA Annual Meeting took place on Jan 4-7, 2024 in New York, NY. Alum Emily Bender (Ph.D. ’01) gave a plenary talk and was introduced by Professors Emeriti Penny Eckert and Tom Wasow. Many department members and alums also presented a poster or gave a talk:

  • Judith Degen, Madelaine Brown: “Scalar implicatures from “some” to “not all” are highly variable and context- dependent” (talk)
  • Cathryn Donohue (Ph.D. ’04): “Nubri dialectal case variation as a result of social and contact factors”
  • Leila Glass (Ph.D. ’18): “Corpus evidence that Common Ground shapes attributive versus predicative use of adjectives”
  • Thomas Grano (B.A. ’06), Grayson Ziegler, Amanda Bohnert, Emily Hanink, Kelly Berkson, Shobhana Chelliah, Sui H Par: “Irrealis and modality: A view from Lutuv”
  • Thomas Grano (B.A. ’06): “Expanding the scope of Cinque’s puzzle: Modal flavor and finiteness”
  • Alexia Hernandez, Meghan Sumner: “Speeded implicit biases vary across Midwestern and Cuban American listeners depending on perceived accent” (poster)
  • Ahmad Jabbar: “Rhetoric in conditional questions” (talk)
  • Veda Kanamarlapudi, Ahmad Jabbar: “Hindi-Urdu discourse particles in grounding moves”
  • Jiayi Lu, Dingyi Pan, Judith Degen: “Evidence for a Discourse Account of Manner-of-Speaking Islands” (talk)
  • Yin Lin Tan, Ting Lin, Rob Podesva, Meghan Sumner: “Pitch variability cues perceptions of Singlish: A perceptually-guided approach to sociophonetic variation” (talk)
  • Marie Tano: “Multiple Ways to Do Authenticity: A Case Study of a Diasporic Speaker” (talk)
  • Alamelu Venkatachalam, Rebecca L Starr (Ph.D. ’12): “Variation and change in the acceptability of singular they in Singapore English”
  • Chloe Willis, Simon Todd (Ph.D. ’19): “#Bi Twitter: A keyness analysis of bisexual discourses on Twitter”
  • Robert Xu: “Where prosodic features come together: Phrasal boundary as a critical site for stylistic expression” (talk)
  • Irene Yi, Grace Wong, Meghan Sumner: “Social Attribute Rating of Mandarin Accents by Singaporean Listeners” (poster)

Several department members and alums were also speakers in panel discussions and symposia. Courtesy Professor Anne H. Charity Hudley was a speaker in the panel discussion “(Socio)linguistics–What is it good for? A case for liberatory linguistics”. Charity Hudley and Tracy Conner (B.A. ’06) were both speakers in the symposium “Linguistics in Higher Education: The next 100 years”. Lelia Glass (Ph.D. ’18) was a speaker on the panel discussion “Demographics, migration, and the African American vowel system in Georgia”. John Beavers (Ph.D. ’06) spoke at the symposium on “The ethics of peer review in linguistics”.

As usual, there was a well-attended Stanford party, which brought together many current and former department members.