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Young-ran An (University at Stony Brook, State University of New York) Session 5Korean tul as an event pluralizerThe extrinsic tul in Korean, as opposed to the intrinsic counterpart, can be optionally attached to other categories including adverbial,verbal, or prepositional phrases. It has some peculiar properties: (1) It carries an exhaustive sense. (2) It appears to violatecompositionality in that it attaches to any category, regardless of semantic type. (3) It must be placed in a position c-commanded by aplural argument. I propose the semantics and syntax of tul on the analogy with English all, a la Brisson 2003, where all depends on aD operator.Corinna Anderson (Yale University) Session 13A nonconstituent analysis of Nepali correlative constructionsNew data from Nepali correlatives challenge the assumption that a relative clause and its associated matrix-clause DP/NP must form asyntactic constituent. Analyses of Indo-Aryan correlative constructions have recognized both DP-adjoined and IP-adjoined positionsfor RCs, related by optional movement. However, syntactic evidence for movement is entirely absent in Nepali—‘anti-localityeffects’ are evident in coreference and binding across islands, reconstruction effects, and anaphor binding. In contrast to Hindi, Iargue that Nepali correlatives are a type of left dislocation, supported by both syntactic and information-structural criteria. Nepalicorrelatives are contextualized with cross-linguistic patterns as a left-peripheral discourse strategy.Philipp Angermeyer (New York University/Queens College, City University of New York) Session 30Varying in codes & styles: The multilingual speaker in sociolinguisticsI address the place of multilingualism in variationist sociolinguistics. Drawing on a data set of interpreter-mediated courtroominteractions that involve speakers of English, as well as Spanish, Russian, Polish, or Haitian Creole, I compare codeswitching andstyle-shifting, two phenomena that are often viewed as parallel, but which are generally investigated separately. Differences in the useof style-shifting and codeswitching are identified with reference to different approaches to style (attention to speech, audience design,speaker-design), and the findings are related to questions of native proficiency, speaker intention, and metalinguistic awareness.Arto Anttila (Stanford University) Session 31Word stress in FinnishFinnish secondary stress exhibits extensive variation and is often hard to hear. We addressed these problems by studying thesegmental consequences of stress in a written corpus of 9.3 million word forms extracted from Finnish web pages. Two newgeneralizations emerged: (1) Morphophonemically low vowels /a, o/ are preferably stressed; morphophonemically high vowels /i, e/are preferably unstressed. (2) Ternarity arises as a response to clash between the foot head and an adjacent heavy syllable. Wepresent an OT model that closely approximates both the categorical and quantitative patterns in the data, noting that the quantitativepredictions are largely independent of rankings.Arto Anttila (Stanford University) Session 31Adams Bodomo (University of Hong Kong)OCP effects in DagaareIn tone languages, adjacent high tones are often avoided. Different languages resolve HH sequences in different ways, but differentresolutions can be found even in one and the same language. In Dagaare (Gur, Niger-Congo) the possible resolutions aredissimilation, downstep, merger, or no resolution, depending on the morpholexical environment. We present evidence that a HHsequence is resolved only within a tonal foot and account for the different resolution patterns by assuming that morphemes specifypartial rankings: The tone of the complex word is the concatenation of the tones of its constituent morphemes, evaluated by the unionof their rankings.Jennifer E. Arnold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Session 24Carla Hudson-Kam (University of California, Berkeley)Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)Why is that speaker disfluent? The role of attribution in the effect of disfluency on comprehensionUsing eye-tracking and gating experiments we examined reference comprehension with fluent (Click on the red- ) and disfluent(Click on [pause] thee uh red-) instructions while listeners viewed displays with two known (e.g. houses) and two novel objects (e.g.99