Andrew Kato at Cornell

Andrew Kato, a second-year undergraduate student in the Linguistics major, recently returned from the 17th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (April 21-23). He filed the following report with WHASC:

“With presenters from UMass Amherst, NYU, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Northeastern University, I ended up being the only one hailing from a university outside the New England area. Posters and oral presentations included topics such as Massachusetts regional dialects, compound verb constructions in Japanese, and spatiotemporal perception among Mandarin Chinese speakers. My talk was on gender-neutral logophoricity in discourse. External keynote speaker Professor Renée Blake of NYU spoke about Black embodied communication, and internal keynote speaker Professor Helena Aparicio spoke on recalibrating interpretations of vague predicates.”