Graduate Student Presentations and Publications

Marie Bissell

Shport, I., Bissell, M., Berkson, K., & Carmichael, K. 2023. “Regional and individual variation in acoustic targets of /ai/ and /au/ in American English”. Proceedings of the International Conference of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Shport, I., Bissell, M., Berkson, K., & Carmichael, K. 2023. Individual and regional variation in acoustic targets of /ai/ and /au/ in American English. Poster presented at International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). In Prague, Czech Republic.

Clark, C., and Schuler, W. 2023. Categorial grammar induction from raw data. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023: pp2368–2379. Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Court, S., Sims, A., and Elsner, M. 2023. “Quantifying Factors Shaping the Morphological Integration of Non-Semitic Nouns in Maltese”. Presented at 8^th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (Lingwistika Maltija) in Bremen, Germany. September 18.
Court, S., Sims, A., and Elsner, M. 2023 “Analogy in Contactː Modeling Maltese Plural Inflection”. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 6(1): 35-46.

Dang, P. 2023. “The rhythmic pattern of Vietnamese quadrisyllabic reduplicative words: An investigation into their syllabic duration”. Presented at 28^th Midcontinental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon28), at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. October 21.

Dedvukaj, L. 2023. "Nasal Vowel Unpacking or Segmentalization in Albanian". Poster presented at Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP6). In Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. December 5.
Dedvukaj, L. 2023. "Variation in homorganic consonants across Albanian dialects and its implications for the history of the languageː Evidence from the Malsia Madhe dialect". Presented at 51st Annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) at Queens College (QC), New York, USA. October 14.
Dedvukaj, L. 2023. "Reanalyzing the Historical Constructions of Albanian Prepositions". Presented at International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL26) in Heidelberg, Germany. September 4.
Dedvukaj, L. 2023. "Variacioni brenda dialektit gegë veriperëndimor dhe margjinalizimi i Malsisë së Madhe". Presented at Seminari XLI Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë, dhe Kulturën Shqiptare in Prishtina, Kosovo. August 24.

Johnson, M.B., Elsner, M., & Sims, A.D. 2023. High frequency derived words have low semantic transparency mostly only if they are polysemous. International Symposium of Morphology 2023.
Johnson, M.B. 2023. Swahili Contact Effects in Kihehe. 52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics.

Lewis, A. and White, M. 2023. " Mitigating Harms of LLMs via Knowledge Distillation for a Virtual Museum Tour Guide". In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of Interactive Assistants, Prague, Czech Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Mo, L., Chen, S., Chen, Z., Deng, X., Lewis, A., Singh, S., Stevens, S., Tai, C-Y., Wang, Z., Yue, X., Zhang, T., Su, Y., and Xuan, S. 2023. " Roll Up Your Sleeves: Working with a Collaborative and Engaging Task-Oriented Dialogue System". In Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogueː 197–201. Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Marr, C. 2023. “The Angevin--Albanian element in the Albanian lexicon”. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 59: 15-40.
Marr, C. 2023. "The regularity of Old French velar onset voicing, and its bottlenecked path from Roman lenition". Presented at Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP6). In Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. December 5.
Marr, C. 2023. "Systematic versus lexical explanations for Old French voicing of onset /k/". Presented at Sound change and morphological analogy (IG-AT2023). In Cologne, Germany. September 12.
Marr, C. 2023. "A computerized investigation of Albanian diachronic phonology". Presented at Workshop 3: Computational models of diachronic language change, at International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL26) in Heidelberg, Germany. September 7.
Marr, C. 2023. "A computerized investigation of Albanian diachronic phonology". Presented at Seminari XLI Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë, dhe Kulturën Shqiptare in Prishtina, Kosovo. August 23.

Ndoci, R. Language and ethnic identity: Constructing the Albanian diaspora in Greece. Invited talk at the Greek History and Culture Public Seminar Series, Greek Community of Melbourne. July 15.
Karatsareas, P. & Ndoci, R. Onward migration of Albanians from Greece to the UK: Linguistic, social, and identity contestations and constructions (in Greek). Invited talk at the Linguistic Varieties in the Mediterranean: Contemporary Approaches lecture series, Southeastern Mediterranean Linguistics Laboratory, Department of Mediterranean Studies. University of the Aegean, Rhodes. May 8.

Oh, B.-D., & Schuler, W. (2023). “Transformer-based language model surprisal predicts human reading times best with about two billion training tokens”. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023.
Oh, B.-D., & Schuler, W. (2023). “Token-wise decomposition of autoregressive language model hidden states for analyzing model predictions”. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 10105-10117.
Oh, B.-D. (2023). “The bigger-is-worse effects of model size and training data of large language model surprisal on human reading times”. Invited talk at New York University, New York, NY.

Rouillier, C. 2023. "When Agreement isn't Agreement: Deflected Agreement in Najdi Arabic as Aspect". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9834.

Ruan, J. 2023. "Shifting from phonological conditions to morphological ones: a corpus study on the entropy-based predictability in the morphologization of Umlaut". Presented at Sound change and morphological analogy (IG-AT2023). In Cologne, Germany. September 13.

Tangsiriwattanakul, S. 2023. "From Proto-Southwestern Tai to Modern Lanna Tai: Implication from the 16th century phonology". Journal of Humanities 26(1): 1-33. Brill: Manusya.
Tangsiriwattanakul, S., and Buragohan, M. 2023. "The Phonological History of Tai Nüa: Implications from Sino-Baiyi Manual of Translation". Presentation at the 56th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL). Bangkok, Thailand.
Tangsiriwattanakul, S. 2023. "Evidence for Burmese Origin of the Lik Tai Writing system in the Sino-Baiyi Manual of Translation". Oral Presentation at the 2023 Chulalongkorn Asian Heritage Forum. Bangkok, Thailand.
Tangsiriwattanakul, S., and Pittayaporn, P. 2023. "The Tonal Development of Siamese: Combined synchronic and diachronic approaches". Presentation at the 32th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Tatiyanunt, U., and Tangsiriwattanakul, S. 2023. "Bangkok Thai Tones in the mid early-20th century: An acoustic study of tones in connected speech". Oral Presentation at the 32th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). Chiang Mai, Thailand.