The Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting is the premier annual gathering of linguists and linguistics students from throughout the profession and around the world. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for linguists to share research, including the scholarship of teaching and learning in linguistics, engage in professional development, network, and socialize with colleagues from academia, industry, government, and the non-profit world.
This year, the LSA Annual meeting was held in New Orleans from January 8-11th. Many students, faculty members, and graduates from UIUC attended and presented their research.
PhD Students Sibel Arikoglu and Mikhael Hayes both presented posters. Sibel presented Beyond the Name: Kezban As a Symbol of Gender, Class, and Modernity in Turkey, and Mikhael presented Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint, coauthored by Scott Nelson.
Joshua Dees (PhD Candidate) was a co-organizer and presenter for the organized session First Gen in the Classroom: Teaching by and for First-Generation Scholars in Higher Education. He also moderated and co-organized the Saturday Student Networking Roundtable to help fellow graduate students make connections.
Additionally, recent graduate Allison Casar (Reed College) presented the talk, “I don’t know but how dare you!”: I Love Lucy, code switching and cinematic indexicality.
Faculty members also made a great showing at this year’s LSA. Jonathan Dunn presented the talk Does Machine-Assisted Production Alter Grammatical Structures? And Scott Nelson presented Phonological Knowledge, Weighted Logic, and the Competence/Performance Distinction (Hybrid Talk) and A BMRS analysis of Trojan vowels in Hungarian vowel harmony (co-presented with Eric Baković (UCSD)).
Congratulations to all of these great presenters! We are looking forward to seeing more excellent research from our students and faculty!
