Seventh annual

Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference Thanks to everyone for a seventh successful MSULC. Here’s to many more!

MSULC brought to you by qUALMS “the q Undergraduate Association for Linguistics at Michigan State” Friday, April 15, 2016

Conference Schedule 12:00 PM Welcoming and Opening Statements 12:10 PM Poster Session 1 and Lunch Julia Andary, Adam Smolinski, Natasha Chemey, Rachel Stacey, and Bobby Felster It is Either High Or Low: Investigating Children’s and Adult’s Understanding of “Or” Bethany Dickerson Pitch as an Index of Lesbian Identity Kyle Latack and Bethany Dickerson Children’s Calculation of Alternatives Associated to Focus: scalar implicatures, contrastive reduplication and ‘only’. Catherine Seibert A Comparison of Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns in English Adam Smolinksi, Kate Rock, and Kim Hulliberger Perfecting our Understanding of the Perfect: Judgements of the perfect tense from American English speakers Tess Huelskamp Reassessing the Verbal Distinction of the Maratsos Effect

1:40 PM Oral Presentation Session

Kyle Latack, Julia Andary, Bethany Dickerson, and Catherine Seibert What makes a late-talker? An investigation of get, put, and make in the speech of late-talkers and typically developing children Kim Hulliberger, Kate Rock, and Adam Smolinski Perfect uses in American English: the role of input in child-language acquisition Haley Rooney Investigating the Effects of Prior Language Exposure on Second Language Acquisition in Content-Based Instruction

3:40 PM Keynote Address Chris O’Brien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parasitic and Symbiotic Gaps

4:50 PM Closing and Awards 5:oo PM Dinner at Pizza House

Keynote Address Chris O’Brien is a PhD student in linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michigan State alumnus. His research interests include language acquisition and syntax.

Thanks to the Committee and the Judges Kyle Latack, Linguistics & Spanish, President, qUALMS

Natasha Chemey Chris Bartoluzzi, Linguistics & Spanish, MSULC Co-Chair, qUALMS Ich Gebe Xiem xieses buch zurück: Attitudes and usage of an emergent pronoun in German tweets 2:10 PM PM Poster Session 2 Mariah Davis Scope Quantifier Ambiguity Replication and Resolution through Machine Learning Bobby Felster Patterning of Ambisyllabic Consonants in American English Rachel Stacey and Adam Smolinski C-or-pus: How Children Learn the Properties of ‘Either/Or’

Scott Nelson, Linguistics, MSULC Co-Chair, qUALMS Natasha Chemey, Linguistics, qUALMS Cristina Schmitt, Professor, Advisor, qUALMS Alan Munn, Professor Ai Taniguchi, Ph.D Linguistics, MSULC Judge Patrick Kelley, Ph.D Linguistics, MSULC Judge Qian Luo, Ph.D Linguistics, MSULC Judge Adam Liter, M.A. Linguistics, MSULC Judge