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Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (Universidad Nacional Autónoma México) Session 105Pamela Munro (University of California, Los Angeles)Component part locatives & frames of reference (Chickasaw/Zapotec)Chickasaw (Muskogean) and Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (TVZ; Otomanguean) use component part words in expressing locativerelations; these are syntactic prepositions in TVZ and ‘relational nouns’ with nominal argument syntax in Chickasaw (Lillehaugen &Munro 2006). While it is not surprising that TVZ prepositions may use either inherent or relative frame of reference (FOR; Levinson2003), Chickasaw relational nouns may also use relative FOR, though their concrete sources might seem to favor inherent FOR. Weargue, therefore, that the FOR available to locatives is not predictable from their syntactic status and thus cannot be used as adiagnostic for syntactic category.Donna L. Lillian (East Carolina University) Session 71Changing the rules: The struggle over women's surnames & courtesy titlesI discuss women's naming choices in the context of changing responses to feminism over the past four decades and report on a new,North America-wide, online survey currently underway. Whereas Ms. was once closely associated with feminism, it no longer carriesa strong feminist connotation. Rather, Ms. has largely been co-opted by the mainstream and turned into a tool for more preciselyidentifying a woman's marital status. Furthermore, marriage is still regarded as a woman's ultimate accomplishment, and women wantto "advertise" this accomplishment by using Mrs. and taking their husband's surname.Susan Lin (University of Michigan) Session 55Effects of clear speech on short & long vowels in ThaiClear speech has been shown to involve increased gestures, in both the spectral and temporal dimensions. Previous work in this areahas shown peripheralization (expansion of the vowel space) under clear speech conditions when compared to casual or neutral speechconditions. These studies have also shown increased duration of segments under clear speech conditions. What remains unclear iswhether the speaker's primary goal in clear speech is to give listeners more information or to make the information easier to process.This study targets this question by examining the behavior of speakers of Thai, a language with contrastive vowel length.Gary Linebaugh (University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign) Session 41Acoustic evidence for the asymmetry of height & backness effects in vowel-to-vowel coarticulationI present evidence that the acoustic effects of cross-consonantal vowel-to-vowel coarticulation are asymmetric with respect to theheight and backness dimensions. Effects on F2 are more systematic and more predictable than effects on F1. The asymmetry ofeffects on F1 vs F2 is evidence of asymmetry in height and backness effects. This finding is incompatible with a model of speechproduction that views coarticulation as the spreading of features, but it is consistent with a model that distinguishes among thedimensions of lingual articulation, such as the gestural coproduction model (Fowler & Saltzman 1993, Browman & Goldstein 1992).Mary S. Linn (University of Oklahoma) Session 96An historical applicative & its consequences in YuchiI explore the reconstruction of an historical applicative in Yuchi. An applicative prefix *yo- fused with the pronominal prefixes,leaving what an array of pronominal prefix sets. These can now be analyzed as two sets of pronominal prefixes, an actor and a patientset. The historical applicative prefix may be reconstructed as an earlier 3rd person patient prefix, perhaps cognate with that of Proto-Iroquoian nonspecific patient prefix *yu-. Additionally, the Yuchi impersonal 3rd person ko- and inanimate 3rd person hi- iscompared to the Proto-Iroquoian-Caddoan specific agent *ka-/*ya- and nonspecific agent *yi-, perhaps lending support to the Proto-Siouan-Iroquoian-Caddoan hypothesis.Leila Lomashvili (University of Arizona) Session 12Why are inherent/structural cases borne equal? Evidence from GeorgianThe paper continues the line of research in the minimalist case theory which claims that the distinction between the two varieties ofsyntactic case--structural and inherent--is spurious. The data from Georgian show that dative case and agreement morphology of theexperiencer subjects and the subjects of transitive/unergative verbs is checked in the same structural configuration. Also dative caseof two object arguments in double object constructions is checked in the spec-head relationship with the functional heads (VP applic andAgroP). The binding facts and adverbial clauses support the claim that inherent/structural gap is not relevant to Georgian.144