Submitted by Anna Schnell
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Our students and faculty have been quite active over the summer: presenting at conferences, attending summer schools and doing fieldwork.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Myriam Lapierre presented “Acoustic Vowel Space Expansion in Panãra” at LabPhon in Seoul, Korea, with Ella De Falco, Alessio Tosolini and Jeremy Steffman.
- Sunny Ananthanarayan, Ella De Falco, Jessa Jeter and Myriam Lapierre carried out 7 weeks of fieldwork in the Panãra Indigenous Land, in the villages of Nänsêpotiti and Kôtikô.
- Naja Ferjan Ramirez gave a talk titled 'Beyond baby talk: The power of parentese in language development' at the NeoHeart conference at Columbia University in NYC.
- Ray Gagne attended CreteLing and presented a poster “Against Covert Head-Movement in Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clauses (IHRCs)”
- Barbara Citko and Fritz Newmeyer gave plenary talks at the 21st International Congress of Linguists in Poznań, Poland: Barbara Citko on “Being a Generative Syntactician in the Age of Generative AI” and Fritz Newmeyer on “Can one language be more complex than another?”
- Shane Steinert Threlkeld presented a joint paper with Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro and Andrew Hedding titled ‘Iconic Artificial Language Learning in the Field: An Experiment with San Martín Peras Mixtec Speakers’ at CogSci (44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and gave an invited talk at the 9th CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Intelligent Interaction at Stanford.
- Andrew Hedding conducted fieldwork in Oaxaca, Mexico and gave a talk entitled "Una media no genérica en el mixteco de San Martín Peras" (A non-generic middle in San Martín Peras Mixtec) at the V Encuentro de Lingüística Formal en México (5th Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico).
- Three papers were presented at Interspeech 2024, as posters, by UW Linguistics students, alums, faculty, and collaborators. Interspeech is the flagship conference of the International Speech Communication Association; this year's conference was held in Kos, Greece, September 1-5.
- Ted Kye presented on “Affricates in Lushootseed”.
- “The Use of Phone Categories and Cross-Language Modeling for Phone Alignment of Panãra” was presented by Emily Ahn, Myriam Lapierre, and Gina-Anne Levow.
- Sara Ng, Gina-Anne Levow, Mari Ostendorf and Richard Wright presented on “Investigating the Influence of Stance-Taking on Conversational Timing of Task-Oriented Speech”.