Successful 2025 Graduate Research Symposium

Our annual graduate student research and professionalization seminar, LING 290, culminated this year in a Spring Research Symposium held on Friday, April 11, in Humanities 2. The symposium showcased a wide range of ongoing research across subfields. The list of presenters included:

Session 1
– Yağmur Kiper, The semantics of the imperfectives in Turkish
– Emily Knick, Future reference and covert modality in Khalkha Mongolian
– Aidan Katson, Expanding the nominal in English ACC- and POSS-ing nominalizations

Session 2
– Ian Carpick, Deriving vowel reduction from a law governing human motion
– Larry Lyu, The local meets the non-local: assimilation-induced transparency in vowel harmony
– Hanyoung Byun, Interaction between consonant voicing and vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean

Session 3
– Ruoqing Yao, What gets to race? Distinguishedness effect on the ambiguity advantage effect
– Richard Wang, Investigating the role of duration in the categorization of Mandarin tone

Congratulations to all the participants in LING 290 for the excellent progress they’ve made on their research! A big thanks to Professor Rachel Walker, the instructor of the seminar, and all faculty members who have sat in the seminar to give valuable feedback on the presentations! (photo credit: Jungu Kang)