Huge congratulations to Justin Leung (PhD Student) and Christopher Legerme (former MA student) for sweeping the runner up category for the Stueber Prize at NWAV49!
Leung presented work regarding variation in path encoding in motion events in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. He defined and described a new variable for Chinese languages and gave a thoughtful interpretation of the outcomes.
Legerme, who is now at MIT for his PhD, presented work regarding phonological variation and change in Haitian determiners. Sounding familiar? Legerme also won the NWAV student abstract award this year for his presentation!
Congrats to both Leung and Legerme for this excellent work!
We also want to give a shout-out to the winners:
Sadlier-Brown, Salles & Salomon, Exploring variation & change in a small-scale indigenous society: the case of (s) in Pirahã.
They did an excellent job grappling with the issue of determining how to interpret language variation and change in a context where no information on standards or norms is available, as well as countering reported descriptions of the language. They also contribute to ongoing debate about the reasons behind the generalization that women often lead linguistic change.
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