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Wednesday, May 20

10:30 AM–12:30 PM Session 1

	Session 1 Noun morphology 📁 Session folder
	CTRC 5019A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Chris Green
	Tech Coordinator: Jordan Chiantelli
10:30–11:00 AM	Rebecca Paterson Patterns of noun class system renewal across Kainji
11:00–11:30 AM	Rachel Robinson Grammaticalisation of the lexeme ‘children’ to innovate new noun class prefix in Chopechop (Bamali), with reference to related phenomena in other Grassfields Bantu languages Remote
11:30 AM–12:00 PM	Michael Terhemen Angitso, Solange Mekamgoum & Roland Kießling Towards a typology of emergent numeral classifier systems in Bantoid Remote
12:00–12:30 PM	Jeffrey Wills & David Etta Bendic nominal morphology

4:00 PM–5:30 PM Session 2

	Session 2 Morphology 📁 Session folder
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	Chair: Nadine Grimm
	Tech Coordinator: Ebube Chukwukaeme
4:00–4:30 PM	Nicholas Rolle The MPaNCA Project: Findings in the noun class morphomics of Bantoid
4:30–5:00 PM	Pius W. Akumbu & Jeffrey Wills Concord and prefix interaction in Bantoid: The case of class 7 kV- and a-
5:00–5:30 PM	Elisabeth J. Kerr & Maarten Mous The Bantoid diminutive verbal suffix in a comparative and typological perspective

Thursday, May 21

9:00 AM–10:30 AM Session 3

	Session 3 Historical-comparative linguistics 📁 Session folder
	CTRC 7002 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Jeff Good
	Tech Coordinator: Sarah MacDougall
9:00–9:30 AM	Jordan Chiantelli-Mosebach, Christopher R. Green & Rebecca Grollemund On the Lame and Jaku-Gubi sub-groups of Jarawan: Conservative structures, distant connections
9:30–10:00 AM	Roger Blench Rethinking the classification of ‘South Jukunoid’ Remote
10:00–10:30 AM	Nelson C. Tschonghongei Agghan native authority; A caged chiefdom in Lower Fungom Remote

11:00 AM–12:00 PM Session 4

	Session 4 Potpourri 📁 Session folder
	CTRC 7002 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Nik Rolle
	Tech Coordinator: Jordan Chiantelli
11:00–11:30 AM	Timothy Terna & Roger Blench Introduction to the Gãã language Remote
11:30 AM–12:00 PM	Kathryn Franich Multimodal cues to prosodic prominence in Medʉmba and Babanki

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Thursday, May 21

Session 1 2:15–4:15 PM 5 parallel sessions

	Session 1A Syntax: clitics, resumptives & agreement 📁 Session folder	Session 1B Semantics: (in)definites 📁 Session folder	Session 1C Phonology I: tone 📁 Session folder	Session 1D Bantoid 3: Sociocultural linguistics 📁 Session folder	Session 1E Consonants I: phonetics 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1111 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1228 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1112A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1110 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Brent Henderson	Chair: Anthony Struthers-Young	Chair: Florian Lionnet	Chair: Elisabeth Kerr	Chair: Elizabeth Zsiga
	Tech Coordinator: Aaron Lener	Tech Coordinator: Reihaneh Hosseini	Tech Coordinator: Ifeoma Okoh	Tech Coordinator: Sarah MacDougall	Tech Coordinator: Matthew Faytak
2:15–2:45 PM	Usama Soltan On the morphosyntax of exophoric demonstratives in two Arabic varieties	Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur Definiteness in Avatime	Fisher Moore & Michael R. Marlo Verbal tone in Mwĩmbĩ: A preliminary investigation	Emilisco Jones Enoachuo & Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe Refusal strategies in Nyang: Pragmatic variation, power, and social negotiation Remote	Vincent Nwosu & Kathryn Franich Acoustic Analysis of Implosives in Igbo
2:45–3:15 PM	Anthony Amissah & Hamid Ouali On Akan Pronominal Continuum: Strong Pronouns, Weak Pronouns, and Pronominal Clitics	Carla Bombi & Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur Quasi-names in Akan: New semantic fieldwork on definite bare nouns	Lee Bickmore Kiwoso Chaga Verbal Tonology	Levi Ekwa Mokake, Esther Phubon Chie & Clovis Nkwain Ndicia Kom snake symbolism: A critical discourse analysis of power dynamics and cultural implications
3:15–3:45 PM	Olabode Adedeji & Ka-Fai Yip A partial Copy Deletion account of non-agreeing resumptive pronouns in Yorùbá	Adelaide Appiah Banafo Existential Bases of Negative Indefinites and Polarity Items in Buli, Ga, Dagbani, and Akan Remote	Richard Nyamahanga Tonal Distribution in Kihehe	Prasidis Nain Wainkem & Clovis Nkwain Ndicia Narrating identity: Language and cultural heritage in Kom folklore Remote NC	Matthew Faytak, Ahmed Alzahrani, Xiaotian Liu, John Pokorski, Siobhan Spies, Mariana Quintana Godoy, Tianle Yang & Abigail Dalhatu Nasal aerodynamics of the Gbagyi syllable
3:45–4:15 PM	Lateef Adeleke, Moyinoluwa David Ekundayo & Kayode Solomon Gbenga Reflexes of A-Bar movements in Uhami	Alice Lee-Kleinberg The semantics of definiteness in Amharic	Pius W. Akumbu Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly	Tabe Florence Oben Changing the narrative of a belief system through language contact: A study of the belief in multiple souls among the Banyangs of Manyu, Cameroon Remote	Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver & Didier Demolin On the EGG signature of clicks in South African languages

Session 2 4:30–6:30 PM 5 parallel sessions

	Session 2A A-movement 📁 Session folder	Session 2B Argument structure & nominal morphosyntax 📁 Session folder	Session 2C Phonology II 📁 Session folder	Session 2D Variation and change 📁 Session folder	Session 2E Suprasegmental phonetics 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1111 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1228 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1112A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1110 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Jason Overfelt	Chair: Hannah Sande	Chair: Blake Lehman	Chair: Cameron Hamm	Chair: Laura McPherson
	Tech Coordinator: Lateef Adeleke	Tech Coordinator: Eden Février	Tech Coordinator: Ifeoma Okoh	Tech Coordinator: Malleeswari Jagabattuni	Tech Coordinator: Ahmed Alzahrani
4:30–5:00 PM	Jane Loney Zulu Quantifier Float Diagnoses Movement Paths	Isaac Warren Morphosyntax of Avatime reduplicating nominalizations	Brakson Ping An OT Analysis of Vowel Coalescence in Dzə	Adam An & Jean Paul Ngoboka Stable variation evidences language-internal facilitatory effects for morphosyntactic change in Kinyarwanda	Kathryn Franich Co-Speech Gesture and Phonology Development in Medʉmba-French Bilingual Children
5:00–5:30 PM	Ruth Kramer & Matthew Hewett Investigating a Cross-Clausal A-Dependency in Amharic: Evidence for Object Control	Mikayla Oliver & Arsalan Kahnemuyipour The distributional patterns of the Swahili connective morpheme -a	Adebayo Olalekan Malik Hiatus Resolution in Ì̩yí̩nnó̩: DEEs and Edge-Protected Vowels Remote	Ememobong Udoh & Eno-Abasi Urua An isoglossic analysis of PRO-NOCONTOUR tonal change in some Central Lower Cross speech communities NC	Elizabeth Zsiga Vowel Assimilation and Tonal Timing in Igbo
5:30–6:00 PM	Patrick Kinchsular & Juvénal Ndayiragije Hypo-raising in Kirundi	Milena Šereikaitė Impersonals in Ndebele	Joseph Owoyele Oluwasegun Vowel Deletion and Insertion in Ukue: An Optimality Approach	Jeffrey Wills How to make irregular nouns in Bantoid	Elisabeth J. Kerr Testing for phonetic correlates of stem-initial prominence in Mbam Bantu
6:00–6:30 PM	Vicki Carstens Zulu Scope Rigidity as Superiority Remote	Olivia Ndapo Oshingandjera (Oshiwambo) Passive: Projecting the Implicit Argument	Ebube Blessing Chukwukaeme Long distance coronal labialization in the Ekwulu dialect of Igbo	Nafisa Rashid An Insight into Accent Shifting through Vowel Monophthongization in the Ghanaian-American Singer Amaarae Remote	Jackson Kellogg Considering evidence for word stress via intonational peak alignment in Amharic

Friday, May 22

Session 3 8:30–10:30 AM 5 parallel sessions

	Session 3A Syntax & discourse 📁 Session folder	Session 3B Child speech & language acquisition 📁 Session folder	Session 3C Copula constructions 📁 Session folder	Session 3D Focus, questions & complementizers 📁 Session folder	Session 3E Historical linguistics 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 2213A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225B Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1110 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Maria Kouneli	Chair: Mirella Blum	Chair: Rachel Thompson	Chair: Ron Schaefer	Chair: Lee Bickmore
	Tech Coordinator: Eden Février	Tech Coordinator: Ifeoma Okoh	Tech Coordinator: Rachael Ojeleye	Tech Coordinator: Reihaneh Hosseini	Tech Coordinator: Ahmed Alzahrani
8:30–9:00 AM		Rebecca Dufie Bonney Talking to Children in their L1 Matters: Lasting ATR Harmony in Akan Heritage Speakers	Wakweya Olani Gobena Predicative possession constructions in Sheko (Omotic)	Miracle Oppong Peprah Interrogative Constructions in Burak: An Adamawa Language of Nigeria	Ella Johnson, Jonathan Bass, Joe Gilmour & Gérard Philippson Proto-Bantu *k and *g in Central-Western Bantu: New insights for Bantu classification
9:00–9:30 AM	Adam An Phrase-finality is (anti)focal: reexamining the Kinyarwanda conjoint-disjoint alternation	Laura McPherson & Linh Pham Postlexical tone lags behind grammatical tone in L1 acquisition: Evidence from Seenku	Doris L. Payne To Be Somewhere or to Exist?	Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Travis Major & Sharon Rose Prosodic phrasing of topic and focus in Gua: the role of the focus particle	Samuel Curnes Reconstructing a Copula in Great Lakes Bantu
9:30–10:00 AM	Xiaoxing Yu & Michael Diercks Object marking in Llogoori Remote	Matthew Ajibade & Samuel Obeng Gradient Effects of Early Phonological Experience on Yoruba Labial-Velar Stop Perception	Mary Amaechi On binominal copular clauses in Yoruba Remote	Blake Lehman, Travis Major & Harold Torrence The Syntax of the Modal Complementizer in Avatime	Kenneth S. Olson Tone Split and H-Lowering in Suma (Gbaya) nominals
10:00–10:30 AM		Felix Kpogo Bilingual Experience Shapes Coarticulation in Ga Complex-Simplex Stop Contrasts in Children	Daniel Aremu & Samuel Owoahene Acheampong (Pseudo)-sluicing in Likpakpaanl and the Isomorphic condition Remote	Zhixian Huang Obligatory subject pronoun displacement in Pulaar Remote	Irina Monich Role of foot preservation in the development of Western Nilotic morphology

Session 4 1:15–2:45 PM 5 parallel sessions

	Session 4A Noun class & agreement 📁 Session folder	Session 4B TAM morphology 📁 Session folder	Session 4C Lexical meaning & categories 📁 Session folder	Session 4D Computational methods 📁 Session folder	Session 4E Language & culture 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 2213A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225B Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1110 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Rebecca Paterson	Chair: Jeffrey Wills	Chair: James Essegbey	Chair: Matt Faytak	Chair: Matthew Ajibade
	Tech Coordinator: Shalom Oladele	Tech Coordinator: Eden Fevrier	Tech Coordinator: Ebube Chukwukaeme	Tech Coordinator: Ifeoma Okoh	Tech Coordinator: Sarah MacDougall
1:15–1:45 PM	Madeline Ladore Agreement mismatch in Logba (Ikpana)	Aaron Lener Clause-final negation and Polarity Phrase in Jhar	Evgeniya Gutova Qualification in Senhaja Berber (Amazigh): A Verb-Noun Continuum and Adjectives as a Contact-Induced Innovation Remote	Matt Malone, Spencer Caplan & Jordan Kodner Effects and Causes: On the Semantic Coherence of Swahili Noun Classes	Abdulkadir Adamu Exploring African personal naming practices: A poly-dynamic framework
1:45–2:15 PM	John David Storment A unified account of agreement variation in Bantu inversion constructions	Lateef Adeleke Polarity-Conditioned TAM and Negative Allomorphs in Uneme	Dorothy Pokua Agyepong 'CRUSHING' Events in Asante Twi: Verb Meaning, Object Types, and Constructional Patterns	Troy E. Spier Low-Resourced African Languages in NLP: Syllabification, Part-of-Speech Tagging, and Readability in CiBemba Remote	Laura McPherson & Mahuton Djessou Language as the backbone of music: A case study in Maxígbe
2:15–2:45 PM	Larry M. Hyman & Daniel Ibrahim Kamara Noun Class and Number Marking in Limba (Thɔnkɔ Dialect)	Mattie Wechsler Unraveling the phonology and syntax of the final vowel in Swahili		Oluwasegun Amoniyan Choice of acoustic model in large-scale socio-phonetic studies of Nigerian English: Moving beyond one-size-fits-all Remote NC	Nthateng Mokhochane Teaching Sesotho language without diacritics: challenges and implications NC

Session 5 4:15–5:45 PM 4 parallel sessions

	Session 5A Argument structure 📁 Session folder	Session 5B Semantics: referentiality 📁 Session folder	Session 5C Consonants II 📁 Session folder	Session 5D Sociolinguistics 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 2213A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225B Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Ruth Kramer	Chair: Stéphane Térosier	Chair: Pius Akumbu	Chair: Colleen Balukas
	Tech Coordinator: Rachael Ojeleye	Tech Coordinator: Reihaneh Hosseini	Tech Coordinator: Malleeswari Jagabattuni	Tech Coordinator: Sarah MacDougall
4:15–4:45 PM	Amos Atuhairwe, Patrick Kinchsular & Juvénal Ndayiragije Syntax and semantics of valency-neutral applicatives in Ruruuli-Lunyala	Hafida Iguir & Hamida Demirdache Evidence for indexical shift in Moroccan Arabic	Jeremy Coburn Acoustic phonetics of Grassmann's law in Hadza	Rebecca Jarvis & Katherine Russell Assessing language shift in an urban West African context: Two investigations of Atchan language use
4:45–5:15 PM	Thuy-Thuong (Beryl) Bui & Ariela Ye When causatives really iterate: The case of Baatonum	Anthony Struthers-Young Logophoricity in Northern Toussian	Aaron Braver & Wm. G. Bennett Click perception by native and non-native click users: A large-scale web-based perception study	Richard Ayertey Lawer Speaking Gender, Performing Power: Linguistic Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in Akan and Dangme
5:15–5:45 PM	Maria Kouneli & Ryan Walter Smith (In)direct causation in Kipsigis	Katya Aplonova Do serial verb constructions have a discursive function: insight from the Multimedia Corpus of Ginyanga (Kwa) Remote	Katherine Russell & Hannah Sande Two typologically distinct nasality systems in West Africa: A nasal and oral airflow study of Atchan (Kwa) and Guébie (Kru)	Nyabuto Choti Structural and Semantic Dimensions of Linguistic Sexism in Ekegusii Remote

Saturday, May 23

Session 6 9:45–11:45 AM 4 parallel sessions

	Session 6A VP syntax & fronting 📁 Session folder	Session 6B Nominal morphology 📁 Session folder	Session 6C Morphophonology I 📁 Session folder	Session 6D LaTeX & publishing workshops 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 2213A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225B Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Matthew Hewett	Chair: Sharon Rose	Chair: Doris Payne
	Tech Coordinator: Reihaneh Hosseini	Tech Coordinator: Lateef Adeleke	Tech Coordinator: Malleeswari Jagabattuni	Tech Coordinator: TBD
9:45–10:15 AM	Jason Overfelt A Predicate-Fronting Analysis of Tigrinya Clefts		Ferdinand Duru Partial Haplology and Morphological Repetition Avoidance in Igbo Verbal Morphology	Michael Diercks Introduction to LaTeX
10:15–10:45 AM	Uduma Uduma Umeh Asymmetric repair in Igbo VP and V fronting: An argument for Generalized Head Movement	Ruth Kramer A Morphological Approach to Gender Assignment in Oromo	Adam An & Dieudonné Ndayiragije Homophony avoidance in Kinyarwanda verbal morphophonology	Michael Diercks Individual LaTeX Help
10:45–11:15 AM	Brakson Ping Obligatory Verbal Complements in West African Languages	Naama Tiroshi The augment in Kîîtharaka - Referentiality or syntax?	Helen Atipoka Adongo & Hamza Alphonse Ayimbisa A morphophonological analysis of nominalization in Gurenɛ Remote NC	Michael Diercks & Jason Overfelt LaTeX for syntax/semantics
11:15–11:45 AM	Abena Agyeiwaa Amoh-Yankyera Exceed Comparative Constructions in Efutu	Matthew Harley & Richard Chiabuotu Koro Waci noun classes, agreement and gender in comparative perspective. Remote	Mirella L. Blum The construct state as indicative of underlying form in Dinka	Nadine Grimm, Brent Henderson & Michael Marlo Guidance on publishing

Session 7 4:00–6:00 PM 5 parallel sessions

	Session 7A Syntax: extraction 📁 Session folder	Session 7B Phonology III 📁 Session folder	Session 7C Morphophonology II 📁 Session folder	Session 7D Focus, questions & complementizers 📁 Session folder	Session 7E Semantics: general 📁 Session folder
	MSB 1220 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 2213A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225A Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1225B Zoom link Copy Meeting ID	MSB 1110 Zoom link Copy Meeting ID
	Chair: Brent Henderson	Chair: Michael Marlo	Chair: Kathryn Franich	Chair: Irina Monich	Chair: Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur
	Tech Coordinator: Ebube Chukwukaeme	Tech Coordinator: Lateef Adeleke	Tech Coordinator: Malleeswari Jagabattuni	Tech Coordinator: Ahmed Alzahrani	Tech Coordinator: Rachael Ojeleye
4:00–4:30 PM	Peace Benson & John Gluckman Tough-constructions in Dzə	Kit Grigoleit Downstep and phonological structure in Bàsàá	Danil Alekseev Phonology of the Nobiin pluractional Remote	Donna Park & Lariba Pakmoni Additive/Focus Particles in Bimoba	Ronald Schaefer & Francis Egbokhare Right Dislocation: Structure and Meaning in Edoid
4:30–5:00 PM	Samba Amadou Kane Subject Extraction Asymmetry in Pulaar Relative Clauses	Blake Lehman Tonal properties of Avatime polar interrogatives	Jeffrey Heath Bozo tonal ablaut: Neither syntax nor (kinetic) phonology	Daniel Aremu Revisiting exclusive association with focus in Yorùbá: Towards an Operator-Particle Approach Remote	Deborah Morton & Carrie Jackson The semantics of animacy and plurality in noun class agreement: A psycholinguistic study
5:00–5:30 PM	Katrina Smith Anti-agreement effects in Kenyan Maay Maay	Zihan Gao Tonal patterns in Malawian CiTonga noun phrases: A comparison of rule-based and Optimality-Theoretic analyses	Florian Lionnet Subtractive Morphology in Fanya (Bua, Chad)	Ka-Fai Yip & Olabode Adedeji Defending a quantifier-particle approach to Yorùbá exclusives	Cor Zanda Event Structure in Avatime and the Factative Effect
5:30–6:00 PM	Esther Acheampomaa Acheampong & John Gluckman Focus construction in Tem	Ash Lienemann & Christopher R. Green Stem- vs. clitic-driven harmonic alternation in Jhar: verbs and nouns conflict on the details	Sharon Rose & Mark Simmons Vowel harmony and the development of inflection classes in Moro and Tira	Jackson Confer Exclusive constructions in Amharic	Jiayuan Chen & Ariela Ye Demonstratives and anti-uniqueness in Baatonum

Remote posters are hosted on gather.town. Join the gather.town space to view them any time during the conference. Last updated: May 23, 2026 at 11:27 AM ET

Bantoid poster session
Wednesday, May 20, 3:00–4:00 PM
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CTRC Atrium

#	Authors	Title
Remote	Jean Paul Gaindjoung	Conceptual metaphor theory of anger in Ghomala' and English
Remote	Constantine Kouankem, Roland Kießling	Formal properties and semantic profiles of deverbatives in Medumba
Remote	Florence Tabe Oben, Abass Yiagnigni, Emma Flaricelle Bakam	Gender assignment in noun-noun compounds in Shupamem and Kenyang
W1	Martha Njui Mbu	The Grammar of Interrogatives in Menka NC
W2	Emmanuel Tabah	The Structure and sense of Limbum ideophones NC
W3	Cameron Hamm	Copy pronouns in Chufie' (Grassfields) and beyond
W4	Emmanuel Bawa	A descriptive analysis of the negation system of Ekhwa Adara

ACAL poster session 1
Friday, May 22, 2:45–4:15 PM
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MSB Atrium

Odd-numbered posters present from 2:45–3:30.
Even-numbered posters present from 3:30–4:15.
Remote posters may present when they wish.
Please adhere to your times: it will create space for everyone and your audience will be larger!

#	Authors	Title
Remote	Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba	The role of Njangi meetings in shaping language maintenance and identity in Cameroon’s internal diaspora
Remote	Asmae El Hassani	Head-Licensed Definiteness and Annexed State in Tarifit DPs
Remote	Jacques Muisha Muhabura	Habituals in Hunde
F1	Charles Prempeh, Stella Afi Makafui Yegblemenawo	Multilingualism and Political Activism in Accra, Ghana
F2	Yanfei Lu, Alyssa Vorobey, Max Zuercher, Natalia Liu, Xinyan Qian, Fiona John, Sandra Glozshtein, Elvis Batung, Alex Angsongna, Samuel Akinbo, Douglas Pulleyblank	Language Reclamation through Stories: A Collaborative Project with Dagaaba Community Members
F3	Barqach El Mustapha	Moroccan Standard Amazigh on Social Media: Digital Practices, Variation, and Normative Recomposition
F4	Kpoglu Promise Dodzi	How Dogon Languages Evolve: Insights from Computational Simulation
F5	Ahmed Alzahrani, Malleeswari Jagabattuni, Jordan White, Matthew Faytak	Vowel nasality and nasal coarticulation in Yoro Mumuye
F6	Danielle Quaye	How Do Listeners Perceive a Negative VOT Contrast? Gradient Perception of Gã /gb–kp/
F7	Chloe Guttmann	Voice quality differences in [+ATR] and [−ATR] vowels in Asante Twi
F8		Vowel dynamics in Nigerian English: The intersection between speaker's ethnicity, variability, and speech rate NC
F9	Peace Benson	An OT analysis of verbal reduplication in Dzə
F10	Brent Henderson, Raul Camargo Blanco	Polysemy or Compositionality? Reciprocal, pluractional and causative uses of the suffix -anyiny in Tiriki
F11	Mofart Onyoni Ayiega, Deogratias Ngonyani	Suffix Ordering in Ekegusii Verbs
F12	Ellie Xia, Deogratias Ngonyani	A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Syntactic Variation in Negation in 76 Bantu Languages
F13	JK Subramony	Verb Complements in Avatime
F14	Colin Keith-Hill, Patrick Kinchsular, Mikayla Oliver, Siena Weingartz, Vera Hohaus, Suzi Lima	On the Absence of Superlative Morphology in EXCEED-Type Languages

ACAL poster session 2
Saturday, May 23, 2:30–4:00 PM
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MSB Atrium

Odd-numbered posters present from 2:30–3:15.
Even-numbered posters present from 3:15–4:00.
Remote posters may present when they wish.
Please adhere to your times: it will create space for everyone and your audience will be larger!

#	Authors	Title
Remote	Kaosarat Aina	Interprosody in Contact: The Emergence of a Pitch-Accent System in English Loanwords in Yoruba
Remote	Jarry Chuang	Existential constructions in Igbo
Remote	Ahenkorah Comfort	External and Internal event plurality: The case of reduplication in Akan
Remote	Boubacar Bocoum	Semantic Extension in Naming the New in Bamanankan: Between Morphological Constraints and Cultural Promotion
Remote	Yvonne Akwele Ollennu, Francis Tsatsu Owulah	Aspects of tone in Dangme
S1	Théodore Bebey	Syntactic Structure and Pragmatic Interpretations of Embedded Questions in Muyang NC
S2	Mikayla Oliver	The semantics of 'small' and 'little' in Swahili
S3	Olga Lerato Legodi, Thabo Ditsele, Nontobeko Thobile Mbatha	Possible influences of mixed languages on linguistic and cultural identities: A case study of a Southern Bantu people in Pretoria, South Africa NC
S4	Eunice Opoku	Syntactic analysis of agentives in Akan motion predicate
S5	Olanrewaju Samuel	Modeling Reduplication Patterns in Yàgbà Computationally
S6	Ellie Xia, Deogratias Ngonyani	Prosodic and Segmental Determinants of Vowel Duration: Evidence from Ndendeule
S7	André Batchelder-Schwab	Tshila phoneme gaps and the case against clicks as clusters
S8	Ferdinand Duru, Jack Pruett	Grammatical Tone in Igbo Multisyllabic Verbs
S9	Cassandra Caragine	Mutation and Reduplication in Seereer-Siin
S10	Akano Johnson	Verbal Pluractionality In Tunzu
S11	Chenyu Feng, Manish Kandepalli Cherukuru, Maria Kouneli	Pokot subject markers are clitics
S12	Godfred Agyapong	Exploring Negation in Edo: Time References, Verb Dynamics and Adverbial Interactions
S13	Catherine Ekua Mensah, Emmanuel Amo Ofori, Andrews Pewodee Obeng	A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF DISEASE NAMES IN AKAN
S14	Richard Gagnon	Hit iT and Clitic: STAMP Morphs in Jããne as Clitic-Copying
S15	Rachel Thompson, Jemima Anderson	Pragmatic Acts in Ghanaian Midwives’ Facebook Posts on Maternal Healthcare