Graduate Student Presentations and Publications

Ohio State Linguistics graduate students have been presenting and publishing their work in venues around the world. Read below for some of their recent work.

Austen, Martha

• Austen, M. Pushing the envelope of variation: Listener perceptions of the TRAP/BATH split. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. Eugene, Oregon. October 10-12, 2019. 
• Austen, M. & Campbell-Kibler, K. Explicit tracking of in-the-moment sociolinguistic evaluation. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. Eugene, Oregon. October 10-12, 2019.

Bissell,  Marie K.

• Bissell, M.K., & Wolfram, W. "Oppositional identity and back vowel fronting in a triethnic context: The case of Lumbee English. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. Eugene, Oregon. October 12, 2019.

Dickerson, Carly

• Joseph, B. D., Ndoci, R., & Dickerson, C. (2019) Language mixing in Palasa. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 19, 1-17. 
• Köhnlein, B., Dickerson, C., Leow, J., & Pinillos Chávez, P. (2019) Lexical tone or foot structure in Hong Kong English? A response to Lian-Hee Wee. Language, 95(3), e394-e405.
• Dickerson, C. The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania’s ‘Sworn Virgins’.(2019) International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019 (256), 57–83.
• Dickerson, C. Albanian rhotics and the mapping of region to gender. Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. At The University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon. October 13, 2019.

Jaffe, Evan

• Jaffe, E. & Oh, B.-D. The Role of Learnability in Morphological Change: A Computational Approach. Presented at the Fourth American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM4). Stony Brook, New York. May 3-5, 2019.

Jiang, Nanjiang

• Jiang, N., and de Marneffe, M.C. "Do You Know That Florence Is Packed with Visitors? Evaluating State-of-the-art Models of Speaker Commitment." Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. July 31, 2019.
• Jiang, N., and de Marneffe, M.C. "Evaluating BERT for natural language inference: A case study on the CommitmentBank." Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). November 7, 2019.
• Oh, B.-D., Maneriker, P., & Jiang, N. THOMAS: The Hegemonic OSU Morphological Analyzer using Seq2seq. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. Florence, Italy. August 2, 2019.

Karim, Shaun

• Karim, S. Competition between formatives and the diversity of ezafat, presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24). July 4, 2019. 

King, David

• King D.L., Sims, A., & Elsner, M. 2019. Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Russian Inflectional Morphology. Ohio Supercomputer User Group Conference, Columbus, OH, October 17.
• Ewing, S., Hussain, A., King, D. L., & White, M. 2019. Ranking Automatic Paraphrases with Contextualized Word Embeddings. Midwest Speech and Language Days 2019, Chicago, May 3.
• Elsner, M., Sims A. D., Erdmann, A., Hernandez, A., Jaffe, E., Jin, L., Booker Johnson, M., Karim, S., King, D.L., Lamberti Nunes, L., Oh, B.-D., Rasmussen, N., Shain, C.,  Antetomaso, S., Diewald, N., Dickinson, K.V., McKenzie, M., and Stevens-Guille, S. Modeling Morphological Learning, Typology, and Change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute? 2020. Journal of Language Modeling, Vol i², No e^iπ(1970), pp 1-46.
• King, D.L., Sims A. D., Elsner, M. Interpreting Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Russian Inflectional Morphology. 2020. In Proc. of the Society of Computation in Linguistics at LSA 2020.
•  Upasani, K., King, D.L., Rao,J., Balakrishnan, A., and White, M. 2019. The OSU-Facebook Realizer for SR '19: Seq2seq Inflection and Serialized Tree2Tree Linearization. In Proc. of the Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realization at EMNLP-IJNLP 2019.

Lifeng, Jin

• Lifeng, J., Doshi-Velez, F., Miller T., Schwartz, L. & Schuler, W. Unsupervised Learning of PCFGs with Normalizing Flow. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy. July 28- August 2, 2019.
• Lifeng, J. & Schuler, W. Variance of average surprisal: a better predictor for quality of grammar from unsupervised PCFG induction. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy. July 28- August 2, 2019.

Lilley, Kevin

• Ross, J.P., Lilley, K.D., Clopper, C.G., Pardo, J., & Levi, S.V. Dialect-specific features enhance perception of phonetic imitation of unfamiliar dialects. Presented at Acoustical Society of America 177. Louisville, Kentucky. May 16 , 2019.

Mahler, Taylor

• Mahler, T. Does at-issueness predict projection? Presented at Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North-Eastern Linguistics Society. 2019.
• Mahler, T, de Marneffe, M.C., & Lai, C. The prosody of presupposition projection in naturally-occurring utterances. Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24. Osnabrück, Germany. September 6, 2019. 
• Mahler, T. The social component of projection behavior of clausal complement contents. To be presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, Louisiana. January 5, 2020.

Ndoci, Gina

• Joseph, B. D., Ndoci, R., & Dickerson, C. (2019) Language mixing in Palasa. Journal of Greek Linguistics 19, 1-17. Publication. 
• Ndoci, R. Καλή φωτογράφιση! Well-wishing expressions in the parting exchange. Presented at the 14th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. University of Patras, Patras, Greece. Sept. 5-8, 2019. 
• Ndoci, R. Καλή συνέχεια! The role of good wishes at the leave-taking sequence. Presented at the 2019 Graduate Research Colloquium for Modern Greek Studies. King’s College London. London, United Kingdom. May 25, 2019. 

Oh, Byung-Doh

• Jaffe, E. & Oh, B.-D. The Role of Learnability in Morphological Change: A Computational Approach. Presented at the Fourth American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM4). Stony Brook, New York. May 3-5, 2019.
• Oh, B.-D., Maneriker, P., & Jiang, N. THOMAS: The Hegemonic OSU Morphological Analyzer using Seq2seq. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. Florence, Italy. August 2, 2019.

Ross, John

• Ross, J.P., Lilley, K.D., Clopper, C.G., Pardo, J., & Levi, S.V. Dialect-specific features enhance perception of phonetic imitation of unfamiliar dialects. Presented at Acoustical Society of America 177. Louisville, Kentucky. May 16 , 2019.

Ruan, Junyu

• Ruan, J. Applying the Albrightian predictability-based model to analogy in Old High German verbs. Poster presented in Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference-25. Iowa City, Iowa. May 3-4, 2019.
• Ruan, J. Leveling between Old High German and Modern High German: The role of conditional entropy in determining directionality. Presented in VocUM 2019. Montreal, Canada. November 14-15, 2019.

Sims, Nandi

• Sims, N.  Prosodic Rhythm among African American and Haitian Americans in Miami. Paper presented at Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) 2019, Boca Raton, FL, USA May 31, 2019.
• Carter, P.M., López Valdez, L. & Sims, N. Miami English: Spanish Substrate influence and Latino identity in an ethnolect of English. American Speech. June 2019.

Thomas, William

• Thomas, W. "The interaction of just with modified scalar predicates". Presented at Third Crete Summer School of Linguistics. Rethymnon, Greece. July 18, 2019. 
• Thomas, W. "The interaction of just with modified scalar predicates". Presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 24. Osnabrück, Germany. September 6, 2019. 

Zhu, Yuhong

• Köhnlein, B. and Zhu, Y. Restricting the Power of Cophonologies: A Representational Solution to Stem Allomorphy in Uspanteko. Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. June, 2019. 
• Zhu, Y. Exceptions to left-dominance? A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Wu Chinese. Poster presented at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, United Kingdom. May 24, 2019.
• Zhu Y. Metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou, Wu Chinese. Poster presented at the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute. Davis, California. July 7, 2019.
• Zhu, Y. Syllable quantity and contrastive feet: a metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou. Poster presented at the 24th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. August 23, 2019.