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Thursday AfternoonLSAContrasts 2Chair: Natasha Warner (U AZ)Room: Laguna4:00 Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza (USC): Representation of minimal contrast: Evidence from phonetic processes4:30 Anastasia Riehl (Cornell U): Phonetically-driven phonology in the typology of nasal-obstruent sequence types5:00 Caleb Everett (U Buffalo-SUNY): The perception of nasality in KaritianaHistorical Change 3Chair: Hans Henrich Hock (U IL-Urbana/Champaign)Room: San Simeon4:00 Celina Troutman (Northwestern U), Brady Clark (Northwestern U), & Matthew Goldrick (Northwestern U): Variation &social networks during language change4:30 Adam Baker (U AZ): Quantitative models of internal & social factors in sound change5:00 Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Cornell U): A chronology-sensitive approach to subgrouping: The case of Southwestern TaiHistorical Syntax 4Chair: Hans Henrich Hock (U IL-Urbana/Champaign)Room: San Simeon5:30 Tonya Kim Dewey (UC-Berkeley) & Yasmin Syed (UC-Berkeley): Absolute constructions in Gothic & Greek6:00 Ilya Yakubovich (U Chicago): Clitic reduplication in Neo-Hittite6:30 Stefanie Kuzmac (U Chicago): Ish: A new case of antigrammaticalizationKorean Syntax and Semantics 5Chair: Noriko Akatsuka (UCLA)Room: Pacific A4:00 Soyoung Park (USC): How many types of comparatives are in Korean?4:30 Jong Un Park (Georgetown U): Syntactic & semantic licensing conditions on the non-nominal plural marker in Korean5:00 Young-ran An (U Stony Brook-SUNY): Korean tul as an event pluralizerLanguage in Social Context 6Chair: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (U MI)Room: Avila4:00 Fallou Ngom (W WA U): Language analysis in asylum cases: A new subfield of (socio)linguistics4:30 M. Catherine Gruber (U Chicago): The rhetorics of erasure in defendants' apology narratives at sentencing5:00 Natalie Schilling-Estes (Georgetown U): Constructing responses to social constraints in narrative & nonnarrative discourse18