Current McGill affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year’s Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2–6 at McGill.
Talks by current McGill linguists included:
- Arihwisaks Colin Benedict, Terrance Gatchalian, and Willie Myers – Reversives, repetitives and on-going telic events in Kanien’kéha
- Laurestine Bradford – Maximality versus telicity in Tlingit
- Jeanne Brown – Acoustic correlates of the production of creaky voice: Mediation by f0
- Sophia Flaim – Information structure and word order in Kanien’kéha
- Claire Henderson and Charles Boberg – Regional variation in the New Survey of Canadian English
- Andrei Munteanu – Searching for feeding and bleeding in randomness
- Willie Myers and Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt – First, second, and third person imperatives in Kanien’kéha
- Liam Rinehart and Salem Ejeba – Metrical analysis of tone and vowel hiatus in Ígálâ
- Chau Tran and Natália Brambatti Guzzo – Relative clause attachment by L1 Vietnamese-L2 English bilinguals: Effects of prosody
- Vera Xia and Lydia White – Number mismatches in the processing of object relative clauses: Does featural relativized minimality operate in L2?
Posters included:
- Maxwell Blackburn – Allomorphic domains and overlappint portmanteaus in Kanien’kéha
- Raimundo Cox-Casals – Consonant features of Chilean Spanish: A case of lenition and underspecification
- Kuilin Lin, Meghan Clayards, and Morgan Sonderegger – Mandarin sibilants perception and imitation by naïve English speakers
This year’s CLA also included three mini courses, including one led by Austin Kraft and Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt titled “Data management, data storage, and data sovereignty”, and one led by Anne Bertrand titled “ELAN: A tool for annotation, segmentation, and transcription”.
