2025 LSA Tri-Co Linguistics Presentations

Presentations by/with students

• Vic Wen’s paper on pronouns
• Vic Wen, Jenny Seo, Emilia Pike-Acosta, (and now also Finn Verdonk!) and Kirby lab paper on pronouns
• Bua Boonkongchuen talk (possibly co-presenting w/Rikker) on the minimum wordlist size needed to make basic phonological generalizations about a language
• Alice Lee-Kleinberg poster (single author) on the -iz- morpheme in Kinyarwanda verbs
• Harry Saunders talk (with Ezster Óttot-Kovács, Jonathan, and Tolgonay) on the Kyrgyz demonstrative system
• Shuchang "Coco" Liu poster on object marker doubling in Kinyarwanda

Faculty

• Kirby solo paper (on….. you guessed it. it’s pronouns)
• Kirby with SynTeach coauthors (Laura Bailey, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light) on syntax pedagogy
• Rikker coauthored paper (w/James Kirby) presenting the public release of a dataset of ~1000 descriptions of tone systems in Tai languages, and challenges with aggregating said data
• Rikker solo poster on 150 years of evolving nomenclature for Thai tones & implications for our understanding of the tones in Thai
• Jonathan poster (with Naomi Gurevich, Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Heejin Kim, and Maxat Tezekbayev) on calculating functional load
• Jonathan poster (with Andrew Lamont) on Kazakh nasal desonorisation
• Ben Zinszer talk (with Shuchang "Coco" Liu, Vic Tianlan Wen, Adrian Ferguson and Shinz Jo Ooi) on L1 semantic knowledge and cross-situational statistical word learning