Michigan Linguistics was very well represented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Philadelphia in January 2025. Many members of the department traveled to this years meeting where they were joined by many of our PhD alumni. We list all the presentations below, with presenters with U-M affiliations given in bold.  Explore the full program from the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting.

  • "Intersectional identities: regional and socio-ethnic variation in Afrikaans"
    Authors: Andries Coetzee (current U-M faculty member), Betsy Sneller, Bradley Mackay (current U-M postdoc), Martin Mössmer (current U-M graduate student)
  • "Handshape representation strategies among signers and gesturers in Turkey"
    Authors: Demet Kayabasi (current U-M graduate student), Natasha Abner (current U-M faculty member)
  • "The relative contributions of social and linguistic factors to linguistic variation"
    Authors: Patricia Cukor-Avila (U-M PhD, 1995), Guy Bailey and Juan Salinas
  • "How We Teach about Creole Languages: Insights from Work with Creole Users and Linguists"
    Authors: Joy Peltier (U-M PhD, 2022), Sophia Eakins (current U-M graduate student), Alicia Stevers (U-M PhD, 2020), Wilkinson Gonzales (U-M PhD, 2022), Moira    Saltzman (U-M PhD, 2022), Felicia Bisnath (U-M PhD, 2024), Yourdanis Sedarous (U-M PhD, 2022), Ariana Bancu (U-M PhD, 2019), Danielle Burgess (U-M PhD, 2017), Marlyse Baptista (former U-M faculty member)
From left to right: Jessi Grieser, Tajudeen Mamadou, Huteng Dai, George Stain
  • "Illustrating African Phonologies"
    Authors: Alexandra Pfiffner, Lindsay Hatch, Katherine R. Russell, Amber Galvano (U-M BA, 2020), Sansan Claude Hien, Hannah Sande, Matthew Faytak, Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou (current U-M faculty member), Anthony Struthers-Young (U-M BA, 2019), Madeleine Oakley, Avery Ozburn, Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver, Tyler Miller, Khetani Yende, Camilla Christie, Samuel Akinbo, Abigail Dalhatu
  • “You speak too properly”: The (un)markedness of standard language in mobile American English speakers
    Authors: Ian Schneider and Nour Kayali (current U-M PhD student)
  • "The role of sexuality in an intersectional approach to vowel space variation"
    Author: Amber Galvano (U-M BA, 2020)
  • "Computational Models of Learnability and Acquisition of Morphology and Phonology"
    Authors: Jeffrey Heinz, Aniello De Santo, Huteng Dai (current U-M faculty member), Jane Li, Charles Yang, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Jordan Kodner, Sarah Payne
  • "An acoustic-perceptual explanation for debuccalization in 10th century Dravidian"
    Author: Chandan Narayan (U-M PhD, 2007)
Sophie Faircloth
  • “Sarcasm Socially Contextualized: Socio-Indexical Information Selectively Modulates the Evaluation of Pragmatic Behavior”
    Authors: Andrea Beltrama and Sophie Faircloth (current U-M graduate student)
  • "Language change and sexuality: T-glottaling in Southern British English "
    Author: Brad Mackay (current U-M postdoc)
  • "Supporting the Linguist as Expert Witness: Case Studies Involving Black Speech"
    Authors: Sharese King, Kelly Wright (U-M PhD, 2022),  Dominique Branson
  • "Who counts as bilingual? Comparing ideals and identification across researchers and participants"
    Authors: Kelly Kendro (U-M BA, 2019), Scott Jarvis
  • "Exfoliation approach to Raising-to-Object: the puzzle of wager-class verbs"
    Author: Aliaksei Akimenka (current U-M PhD student)
  • "Only weak /n/asals in Kazakh maximize sonority falls"
    Authors: Andrew Lamont (U-M BA, 2012), Jonathan Washington