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At the 11th Annual Tu+ Conference, held April 11\u201312 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rutgers Linguistics was strongly represented by faculty, students, and collaborators. <\/span><\/p>\n

Utku, Colin, and Adam McCollum<\/strong> represented the Turkophiles research group, led by Adam McCollum, and presented their work, “Not all round vowels are created equal: Trigger asymmetries in Kazakh rounding harmony.” The full group of authors on that project includes Timur Akishev<\/strong> (KIMEP University) and Rutgers members Colin Hirschberg, Merlin Balkhash, Zoe Katz, Utku Zobarlar, and Adam McCollum.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Left) Utku Zobarlar, Zoe Katz, Aidan Sharma, Dr. Adam McCollum, Dr. Ya\u011fmur Sa\u011f, Merlin Balkhash, Colin Hirschberg (Right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the larger collaborative work presented, graduate student Colin Hirschberg<\/strong> presented a poster on “Perceptual Weakness in Backness Harmony: Applying Insights from Rounding Harmony<\/span>,” coauthored with Professor Adam McCollum<\/strong>. Another graduate student, Aidan Sharma,<\/strong> presented a poster titled “A Binary Analysis of dep in Kazakh: Category V or C,<\/span>” coauthored with Ariela Ye.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rutgers Linguistics graduate alum Ya\u011fmur Sa\u011f<\/strong> was also featured as an invited keynote speaker<\/strong>, and her talk was about “Pseudo-incorporation: from event kinds to (in)definiteness.”<\/span><\/p>\n

You can find more information about the conference <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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