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evidence that Semitic languages tend to avoid consonant similarity (i.e., OCP). Implications for phonological theory arediscussed, in light of evidence that speakers maintain similarity avoidance between segments at the phonetic level.Xu Zhao (Northeastern University) Session 17Iris Berent (Northeastern University)Speakers’ knowledge of grammatical universals: the case study of Mandarin speakersAcross languages, certain onsets (e.g., block) are systematically over-represented (bl≻bn≻bd≻lb) and these distributional factsconverge with the linguistic preferences of individual speakers. This evidence, however, all comes from cluster-rich languages, sospeakers’ preferences could reflect not universal grammatical restrictions but linguistic experience. To address this possibility, weturned to speakers of Mandarin Chinese—a cluster-poor language. We reasoned that ill-formed structures will be repaired asbetter-formed ones (e.g., lbiflebif)—the worse-formed the onset, the more likely its repair. Results from syllable identificationare consistent with the hypothesis of universal grammatical constraints, although phonetic factors made a significant contributionas well.Lal Zimman (University of Colorado) Session 42Perceived gender in context: gendered style among transgender speakersIn the study of sociolinguistic style, a growing emphasis has been placed on the interaction between sociolinguistic variables. Thispaper considers whether the perception of a speaker’s gender is sensitive to sociolinguistic context. Perceptual analysis previouslycarried out on transgender speakers’ voices have suggested that 165-170 Hz is the F0 “cross-over point” separating speakersperceived as female from those perceived as male. However, the present investigation of manipulated speech from transgenderspeakers with a wide range of gendered styles reveals that the F0 perceptual cross-over point for any given speaker depends onother gendered characteristics of the voice, including [s].Fernando Zúñiga (University of Zürich/University of Bern) Session 89All good things come in threes: cliticization types in MapudungunConsidering data from original fieldwork and the literature on Mapudungun (unclassified; Chile and Argentina), this paperexplores the word status of different elements in the language that have not hitherto received enough attention. The hosts to whichinterrogative particles cliticize do not belong to any particular lexical category, for example, whereas adpositions and articlesoccur next to nominals and some person/number-encoding items appear after verbs. The phonological dependence and syntacticproperties of particular elements show clear semantic-pragmatic correlates, but not unequivocal lexical correlates, and thereforethree different cliticization types (rather than three different types of cliticized elements) can be distinguished.219