LSRL 50

The 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, is taking place online from July 1 through 8, with 2.5 hours of content via Zoom every day. Note that registration is free.

We have several alumni involved:

• Beth MacLeod (Ph.D. 2012, now at Carleton University): "Phonetic convergence in Mexican Spanish: Combining acoustic and perceptual assessments."
  
• Monica Irimia (Ph.D. 2012, now at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): "DOM and the PCC: How many types?"
• Laura Colantoni (faculty), Ruth Martínez (Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese), Natalia Mazzaro (Ph.D. 2011, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now at the University of Texas at El Paso), Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty), and Natalia Rinaldi (Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese): "Gender marking under disguise: Phonetics and grammar in Spanish-English bilinguals."
• Recent faculty member Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta) and Julie Auger (Université de Montréal): "Assessing change in a Gallo-Romance regional minority language: First plural verbal morphology and semantic reference in Picard."