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This poster reexamines the tradition of composing have from be plus some functional element, concluding that a coherentsyntactic analysis of auxiliary have cannot be decompositional and that auxiliary selection cannot be reduced to restrictions on theincorporation of a functional head into be. Despite have's surface appearance as be+P in some languages, the decompositionalanalysis of auxiliary have is unsuccessful because the distinct behaviors of auxiliary have/be cannot be accounted for solely withreference to the auxiliaries' arguments. A decompositional analysis must posit non-local relations to allow the main verb and itsarguments to affect the behavior of auxiliaries.Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University) Session 35The linguist gaining access to the indigenous populationsMany linguistics students and researchers develop an interest in conducting research and data collection in native or indigenouslanguages spoken in countries and regions different from their own and by indigenous communities (Bowern 2010). Beforestarting a project, there are some necessary steps that must be taken to ensure ethical guidelines are followed (Rice 2006). In thistalk, I would like to present some guidelines that can ensure a respectful and ethical approach to contacting native populations andat the same time could be helpful in gaining researchers’ access to indigenous populations. I will illustrate how these guidelineswork with examples from my own fieldwork experience in Quechua-speaking areas of Peru. The topics covered will be: 1)Importance of necessary protocols. 2) Respect for the rights of indigenous populations. 3) Attention to establishing personalconnections. 4) Benefits of research project to community members.Hannah Sande (University of Minnesota) Session 81The phonetics and phonology of Nouchi, an Ivoirian creoleNouchi is a contact language that arose in urban Côte d’Ivoire in the late 1970’s. Few linguistic studies have been published onNouchi, and the existing work focuses primarily on the sociolinguistic contexts in which Nouchi is used. The goal of my researchis to expand the current literature on Nouchi by thoroughly documenting the language. In this talk, I propose a phonemicinventory and discuss the phonological constraints on the realization of rhotics in Nouchi. Typologically, I compare the rhotics inNouchi to those in other contact languages influenced by French.Rebecca Scarborough (University of Colorado) Session 49Georgia Zellou (University of Pennsylvania)Perceiving listener-directed speech: effects of authenticity and lexical neighborhood densityWe examine various types of clear speech, comparing contextually-induced and lexically-induced modifications and their effectson word perception. The clearest imagined-context speech (spoken “as if to someone hard-of-hearing”—HOH) and real listenerdirectedspeech (Real) had the greatest hyperarticulation vs. other simulated conditions. However, Real had the greatest degree ofnasal coarticulation while HOH had the least. Lexical decisions were faster on words from Real than from HOH, indicating thathyperarticulation with increased coarticulation was perceptually better than hyperarticulation with less coarticulation. These arethe same modifications found in high neighborhood density words, suggesting that such modifications may have perceptualmotivation.Anisa Schardl (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Session 17Simple partial movement and cleftsSimple partial wh-movement is a construction in which the wh-item moves partially, and no scope marker or other item appears inthe scope position of the question. Languages that have SPM also allow wh in situ and wh-fronting word orders. One possibleand oft-proposed analysis is that in these languages, wh-movement is actually a cleft construction. I show that a cleft analysisworks for wh argument questions in Malay, but cannot be correct for wh-questions in Dholuo and Kikuyu. My evidence comesfrom new syntactic and semantic fieldwork data in Dholuo and Kikuyu, as well as published data in Kikuyu.Kevin Schluter (University of Arizona) Session 49Morphology in the minds of Moroccans: auditory root priming in Moroccan ArabicWhile recent theoretical work suggests that root-and-pattern morphology is epiphenomenal (e.g. Bat El 1994, 2003; Ussishkin1999, 2005), psycholinguistic evidence challenges this analysis via visual language processing (Frost et al. 1997 et sqq). Thisproject fills a gap in Semitic psycholinguistics, focusing on supraliminal and subliminal auditory processing of an unwrittenArabic dialect. Five auditory priming experiments uncover consonantal strong root-effects distinct from semantics andphonology.201