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Our students and faculty have been busy during fall quarter! Here are some hightlights:
- Ty Gill-Saucier presented a poster ‘A primer into the lexical and phonological origins and roots of Mississippi Gulf Coast French: A study based on Linguistic Atlases at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 (NWAV) in Miami Beach, Florida.
- Andrew Hedding, together with Michele Yuan from UCLA, presented a talk "Distinct pathways to possessor A’-extraction in Mesoamerican" at 55 North East Linguistics Society .
- Jessamine Jeter presented a talk at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development titled "Language Input in the Amazonian Indigenous Context: A Case Study from Panãra".
- Saiya Karamali gave a talk at titled The Developing Orthographic Conventions of Roman Hindi-Urdu at Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century (G21C).
- Alum Angelina McMillan-Major participated in UW "Conversations with Society + Technology". Check out the interview "What Does Consent Mean in the Age of Large Language Models (LLMs)?"!
- Abhinav Patil (CLMS alumnus in Spring 2024) presented, with Jaap Jumelet from Amsterdam, a joint paper with Shane Steinert-Threlkeld titled "Filtered Corpus Training (FiCT) Shows that Language Models can Generalize from Indirect Evidence" at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). The paper has been accepted and will soon appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), the premier journal in computational linguistics.
- Shane Steinert-Threlkeld was a keynote speaker at the 55 North East Linguistics Society and gave a talk at a workshop called "At the Crossroads of AI and Cognitive Science" in Göteborg.