The 2026 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting was held on January 8–11 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
UofT members who gave talks at the LSA include:
Naim Lim (MA Student) and Yoonjung Kang (faculty): "Jack or Zack: Bilingual experience and lexical encoding of English /dʒ-z/ in Korean bilinguals."
Derek Denis (faculty), as part of panel including Michael Adams, Charles Carson, Jennifer Cramer, and Connie Eble—past and present editors of American Speech: "American Speech: The first hundred years"
Xinyu Liao (PhD Student) and Yoonjung Kang (faculty): "Directional bias, lexical competition, and frequency effects in sound change: Experimental evidence from perceptual learning"
Anujin Munkhbat (PhD Student): “Conjectural questions in Mongolian”
Laura Griffin (PhD Student) with Carolyn Siegman (UH Mānoa): “‘If Seoul is clean girl aesthetic, Busan is tomboy’”: Heritage Korean speakers’ shifting language attitudes toward regional varieties”
Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty): “As it happens: A lifespan view of linguistic change”
Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty) with Gemma McCarley (post-doc): “Ontario English idioms in a nutshell”
Thank you to our UofT colleagues for representing the department at this year’s LSA annual meeting!