Twelve students presenting papers on topics from vowel harmony to negation in Bon Appétit have been named the newest winners of the Linguistic Society of America's Student Abstract Awards.
The Student Abstract Awards are awarded annually to the top LSA Annual Meeting abstracts presented by students, and are typically awarded as cash prizes of $500 and $300 to the top three students. This year, however, the LSA is pleased to announce that $3600 in awards will be given to the presenters of ten papers: $700 for 1st place, $400 for 2nd and 3rd place, and $300 each for the remaining winners.
The LSA is very grateful to the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC (the host hotel for the upcoming Annual Meeting) and Marriott International for providing the financial support that has allowed the LSA to expand our Student Abstract Awards for this year.
The full list of winners is as follows:
- 1st: Nicholas Baier (University of California, Berkeley), "Deriving partial anti-agreement".
- 2nd: Andrew Lamont (Indiana University), "Implications of a typology of progressive place assimilation".
- 3rd: Gwynne Mapes (University of Bern), "'Oh, and it’s got to be cut into four triangles, never in half': The Role of Negation in Bon Appétit’s 'Editor’s Letter'".
- 4th: Annette D'Onofrio (Stanford University), "Persona-based information and memory of a sociolinguistic variable".
- 5th: John Gluckman (UCLA), "Taking time with tough-movement".
- 6th: Nicole Holliday (NYU), "'I Kinda Put More Bass in My Voice With Black People': Interlocutor-based Intonational Variation".
- 7th: Oana David (University of California, Berkeley), "A frame semantic approach to the interpretation of null arguments in English and Spanish".
- 8th: Akiva Bacovcin, Amy Goodwin Davies and Robert J. Wilder (University of Pennsylvania), "Morphological decomposition in the auditory modality: evidence from priming".
- 9th: Daniel Szeredi (NYU), "Evaluating segmental and sublexical solutions for exceptionality in vowel harmony".
- 10th: Taylor Jones (University of Pennsylvania), "From Intensifier to Negation: 'Eem' and Jespersen's Cycle in African American English".
The award-winning talks will be given during the 2016 LSA Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington, DC January 7-10; individual presentation times can be found on the online Meeting schedule. The awards themselves will be presented on Saturday, January 9, from 5:30 - 6 PM in Salon 6 at the Marriott Marquis, immediately before the Presidential Address.