Upcoming Centennial LSA Annual Meeting

First-year Ph.D. student Ruoqing Yao‘s honors thesis research, completed at William & Mary under the supervision of Ph.D. alum (2006) Anya Hogoboom, has been accepted for a talk at the Centennial LSA Annual Meeting in New York, to be held in January 2024. Her talk is titled, “Resumptive pronouns in islands show confusability advantage effect.”

Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Yaqing Cao will present a poster on “Modals and negations LF-PF (mis)matches in English and Mandarin” and second-year Ph.D. student Richard Wang will present a poster on “Rhotic lenition and neutral tone in Beijing Mandarin”. First-year Ph.D. student Aidan Katson‘s work “Vowel nasalization does not cue ambisyllabicity in American English nasal consonants: evidence from nasometry” in collaboration with Jose Alvarez Retamales, Sarah Rose Bellavance, Lisa Davidson, Amanda Eads, Alden McCollum, and Auromita (Disha) Mitra, will also be presented.