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within a revised phonemic system for Proto-Quechua. With it, a raft of other outstanding issues, hitherto thought to beunconnected to the first person problem, might also fall into place, with far-reaching implications for the classification of thefamily.Brent Henderson (University of Florida) Session 11Local vs. global rules in the Chimwiini perfectiveRecent research has renewed focus on whether global comparisons are required for determining allomorphy outputs, or whetheroutputs are determined by strictly local information (Embick and Marantz 2008; Embick 2010). This paper reconsiders a classicargument for global rules in Kisseberth and Abasheikh (1974), recapitulated in Kenstowicz (2005). They argue one must knowthe non-applied perfective form of a verb in Chimwiini in order to determine the proper form of the applied perfective, thusrequiring global comparison. I argue that the facts need not invoke global rules, but can be handled in a local, serial frameworksuch as Distributed Morphology.Jonathan Henner (Boston University) Session 17Leah Geer (University of Texas at Austin)Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)Calculating frequency of occurrence of ASL handshapesWe investigated markedness of initial handshape based on frequency of occurrence in an ASL database derived from an alreadyexisting corpus of child language. We examined the initial handshapes of approximately 1000 signs utilizing a novel approachthat incorporated two annotation systems: BTS, and Stokoe. Results indicate that the distribution of initial handshapes in thisdatabase is consistent with predictions made by previous researchers (e.g. Battison 1978) in their examination of handshapemarkedness based on completely different data sets. These results are also consistent with investigations of handshapemarkedness in other sign languages (e.g. Ann 1996), suggesting some cross-linguistic comparability.Nicholas Henriksen (University of Michigan) Session 34Left-periphery effects in wh-questions: supporting the pitch accent analysis for SpanishIn this presentation I argue for a single L*+H analysis in left-periphery F0 rises in Spanish wh-questions. Twenty speakers ofPeninsular Spanish produced 72 wh-questions and 30 statements each in a reading task. In utterances comprised of two unstressedinitial syllables before the wh-word, the rise magnitude was greater than in utterances initiated by the wh-word alone, indicatingtruncated L in the latter condition. Scaling of the L and H points in wh-questions did not differ significantly from statements,precluding an upstep analysis. These results have implications for the cross-linguistic signaling of wh-questions and for issues inquestion signaling generally.Laura Heymann (College of William & Mary) Session 65A name I call myself: creativity and namingSocial networks, virtual worlds, and other forms of interaction that require users to choose identifiers to facilitate communicativeexchanges offer interesting environments in which to consider the intersection of various interests. If users select names as muchfor their expressive power as for their functional ability to distinguish one user from another, what does that tell us about the kindsof creativity that matter to noncommercial creators? From where do some participants get the idea that names can be owned and,therefore, “stolen”? And what do these instincts tell us about the rhetoric at the heart of intellectual property law?Aron Hirsch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Session 34Michael Wagner (McGill University)Topicality and its effect on prosodic prominence: the context creation paradigmIntransitive sentences vary in English as to whether the subject or predicate receives main prominence under broad focus. Wearbitrate between two theoretical accounts for this variation – one based on argument structure (unaccusativity), the otherinformation structure (topicality) – using a novel kind of production experiment in which participants say aloud contexts of theirown creation leading up to scripted intransitive target sentences. Controlling for argument structure, we show that participants aremore likely to produce the target sentence with prominence on the predicate when the subject is salient in their created context, afinding supportive of an information structural account.160