LURC 2016

This year’s Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will take place on Wednesday (June 1). It will feature talks by five current students:

• Dhyana Buckley: “Ramarama: A phonological analysis on suffix interaction with English loan words”
• Jacob Chemnick: “Vowel epenthesis in Muyang: Accounting for free variation in OT”
• Drew Knochenhauer: “Unbounded dependencies and specifier competition in varieties of Spanish”
• Lydia Werthen: “Wh-continuation: A neglected puzzle”
• Anissa Zaitsu: “Tough movement: Exploring mixed syntactic movement and argument structure”

Shayne Sloggett (BA, 2010), who is currently a graduate student at UMass Amherst, will give the Distinguished Alumnus Address on “Do comprehenders violate binding theory? Depends on your point of view.” The conference will run from 12:45 to 4:45 pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The complete program can be found here.