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LSAFriday MorningSymposium: Approaches to Language ComplexityRoom: California DTime: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PMOrganizers: K. David Harrison (Swarthmore C)Ryan K. Shosted (UC-Berkeley)Ian Maddieson (UC-Berkeley): Complexity relationships in phonetic & phonological systemsJohanna Nichols (UC-Berkeley): The distribution of complexity in the world’s languagesFrançois Pellegrino (Lab Dynamique Lang, Lyon), Christophe Coupé (Lab Dynamique Lang, Lyon), & Egidio Marsico (LabDynamique Lang, Lyon): An information-theoretic approach to the balance of complexity between phonetics, phonology, &morphosyntaxSheri Wells-Jensen (Bowling Green SU): A comparative psycholinguistic investigation of language complexityDouglas H. Whalen (Haskins Labs/NSF): Brain activations related to changes in speech complexityDigital Poster Session: Global Revitalization TechnologyRoom: PalisadesTime: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMOrganizers: Mia Kalish (Diné C)Susan Penfield (U AZ)Poster Session: Computational Linguistics and Sociolinguistics 11Room: California BTime: 9:00 - 10:30 AMCati Brown (U GA), Tony Snodgrass (U GA), Michael Covington (U GA), Susan J. Kemper (U KS), & Ruth Herman (U KS):Measuring propositional idea density through part-of-speech taggingChristopher Long (Tohoku Gakuin U): A quantitative study of factors that influence the use of apology in Japanese gratitudesituationsDaniel McClory (Yale U) & Eric Raimy (U WI-Madison): Enhanced edges: Morphological influence on linearizationC. Anton Rytting (OH SU), Chris Brew (OH SU), & Eric Fosler-Lussier (OH SU): Modeling word segmentation without assumingphonemic certaintyAna Sánchez-Muñoz (USC): Linguistic elaboration across registers in the Spanish of heritage speakersRebecca Starr (Stanford U): The role of previous form in predicting NP form in vernacular written CantonesePoster Session: Syntax and Semantics 12Room: California BTime: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PMJonathan Brennan (New York U): Only, FinallyMichiko Todokoro Buchanan (U MN-Twin Cities): Two types of sluicing in JapaneseLeila Lomashvili ((U AZ): Why are inherent/structural cases borne equal? Evidence from GeorgianPolly O'Rourke (U AZ): Gender congruency & picture naming in SpanishRonald P. Schaefer (S IL U-Edwardsville): A precedence constraint on argument positioningDavid Schueler (UCLA): World variable binding & beta-bindingElaine J. Francis (Purdue U) & Stephen J. Matthews (U Hong Kong): Verb-doubling facilitates sentence production inCantoneseSuwon Yoon (U Chicago): An argument/adjunct asymmetry in intervention effects21