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The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation was a great success. In case you miss the action, here are some photos from the workshop: Album 1 and Album 2.

Both Itamar Francez and Ryan Bochnak will be presenting at SALT 23 on May 3-5. The titles of their presentations are

• Ashwini Deo, Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: From change to value difference in degree achievements
• Ryan Bochnak: Scale exhaustivity and the modification condition (talk alternate)

The Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, a satellite meeting of CLS, will take place next Wednesday and Thursday (April 17-18). The Wednesday workshop will take place in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club. The Thursday workshop will take place at the Franke Institute. The full program can be found here:

http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phonlab/sound-change-actuation/

Andrea Beltrama and Ming Xiang presented “Rescuing exists! An experimental study on island violations and resumptive pronouns in Italian” at the Penn Linguistic Colloquium last weekend. Suwon Yoon (PhD, 2011) also presented “Main Clause Phenomena at the Syntax-Semantics Interface” there!

We invite you to a conference inaugurating the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago.  The conference, which is jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities, will be held on March 8-9, 2013, in Breasted Hall in the Oriental Institute (see the attached poster and schedule or the program below). Five speakers will present their work and members of the University community will provide commentaries.  In addition, on Friday, March 8, Flying Words will present an ASL poetry performance also in Breasted, followed by a discussion, and then a reception at the new Logan Center.  The conference is free but we ask that you register at http://gslcenter.uchicago.edu so that we can have enough chairs and coffee; the program is available on our website.  We hope to see you all there! it should be a stimulating beginning to an exciting enterprise.

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Diane Brentari

Anastasia Giannakidou

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CONFERENCE ON GESTURE, SIGN AND LANGUAGE (March 8-9, 2013)

Sessions: BREASTED HALL, THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE (1155 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL)

Reception: (6-8PM FRIDAY EVENING) LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS (915 E. 60th St, CHICAGO, IL). The

conference is dedicated to David McNeill (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Psychology), the founder of the

Committee on Cognition and Communication at the University and former chair of the Department of Psychology.

ASL-English Interpretation is provided at all sessions

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

9:15-9:30 Opening remarks (Martha Roth, Dean of the Humanities Division) and dedication to David McNeill

Session 1: Michael Silverstein, chair

9:30-10:30 Daniel Casasanto (invited speaker) “Metaphor in the mind and hands”

10:30-10:45 Sian Beilock (respondent)

10:45-11:00 Haun Saussy (respondent)

11:00-11:30 Discussion

Lunch 11:30 – 1:30

Session 2: Arnold Davidson, chair

1:30-2:30 David Kirsh (invited speaker) “Thinking with hands and body”

2:30-2:45 David Levin (respondent)

2:45-3:00 Larry Zbikowski (respondent)

3:00-3:30 Discussion

Break: 3:30-4:00 PM

Session 3

4:00-5:00 Remarks (Tom Rosenbaum, Provost)

4:10-5:10 Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner (Performance: “Flying Words” Project)

5:00-5:30 Discussion

Reception: 6:00-8:00 PM Remarks (Mario Small, Dean of the Social Sciences Division) (Logan Center for the

Arts (915 E. 60th St, Chicago, IL)

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

Session 4: Jason Riggle, chair

9:00-10:00 John Haviland (invited speaker) “Pathways from gesture to visible grammar: how three deaf

Zinacantec siblings assemble language out of parts of other things”

10:00-10:15 Amy Dahlstrom (respondent)

10:15-10:30 Lenore Grenoble (respondent)

Break 10:30-1045 AM

Session 5: Susan Levine, chair

10:45-11:45 Diane Lillo-Martin (invited speaker) “Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children”

11:45:12:00 Ming Xiang (respondent)

12:00-12:15 John Lucy (respondent)

12:15-12:45 Discussion

Lunch: 12:45 – 2:30PM

Session 6: John Goldsmith, chair

2:30-3:30 Ted Supalla (invited speaker) “Examining the link between gestural discourse & grammaticalization”

3:30-3:15 Howard Nusbaum (respondent)

3:45-4:00 Alan Yu (respondent)

4:00-4:30 Discussion

Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez presented at WCCFL 31 recently:

• Rebekah Baglini. Deriving target and resultant states
• Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez. The implications of managing

Our alum, Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) was there as well!

Several Chicago linguists are presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Congratulations to all!

• Dorothea Hoffmann: Mapping words and mapping worlds: Frames of Reference in MalakMalak
• Martina Martinovic: The topic-comment structure in copular sentences: evidence from Wolof
• Chieu Nguyen: Quantification in the left periphery: the duality of universal quantification and contrastive focus in Vietnamese
• Seyda Özçalıskan & Susan Goldin- Meadow: How speaking shapes the native language of gesture in describing motion

The University of Chicago has another great showing at the annual meeting of the LSA (Boston) this year! The following papers were presented:

• Bert Vaux, Neil Myler, and Karlos Arregi: Number marking in Western Armenian: a non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy
• Rebekah Baglini: The lexical semantics of derived states  (Poster)
• Rebekah Baglini, Lenore Grenoble, and Martina Martinovic: Wild sounds: extragrammatical communication in Wolof
• Rebekah Baglini and Itamar Francez: The implications of managing (Poster)
• Andrea Beltrama: From tall-issimo to game-issimo: subjectification and intensification in diachrony
• Iris Berent and Diane Brentari: Amodal aspects of linguistic design
• Sam Bowman (B.A. 2010): Seto vowel harmony and neutral vowels  (Poster)
• Shira Calamaro (B.A. 2009): Computing general rules over unnatural classes
• Matthew Carlson and Morgan Sonderegger (Ph.D. 2012): The impact of phonological network structure on children’s word learning: A survival analysis
• Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007): Domain Readings of Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses (Poster)
• Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007): Locality restrictions on syntactic extraction: the case (but not Case) of Kaqchikel Agent Focus
• Mitcho Erlewine (B.A./M.A. 2007) and Kotek Hadas: Intervention effects and covert pied-piping in English multiple questions (Poster)
• Lelia Glass (B.A. 2011): Deriving Indiretness for Epistemic MUST
• Pete Klecha: Modifiers of Modal Auxiliaries and Scalar Modality (Poster)
• Jackson Lee: NP ellipsis may not be licensed non-locally (Poster)
• Chieu Nguyen: Left dislocation in Vietnamese universal quantification and contrastive focus
• Mike Pham: Class(ifier) mobility: emergence of classifiers from compounds
• John Sylak (B.A. 2008): The Phonetic Properties of Voiced Stops Descended from Nasals in Ditidaht
• Jason Riggle and Eric Hallman: Identifying individual style and style shifting on reality television with maximum entropy models
• Alan Yu and Ian Calloway: Coarticulation is mediated by “autistic traits” in neurotypicals