Awards

Best Abstract Award:

• Lumi Kang (UC San Diego)

  • “If the Eiffel Tower were in LA…:” Real-world Knowledge in Counterfactual Comprehension 

Best Poster Presentation:

• Samuel Aragones (UC Davis)

  • Context in Emotion: Examining the Value of Qualitative Measures in Quantitative Analysis 

Best Oral Presentation:

• Carolyn Schweitzer (UC Berkeley)

  • "Slowing Breaths" and "Buzzing Skin": Somatosensory Description in Fanfiction by Autistic Authors

Best Flash Talk:

• Ivy Shaw (UC Berkeley)

  • Early Immersion Without Community Input: Phonetic Outcomes in L2 French VOT

Travel Grant Awardees:

• Valeriia Modina (CUNY Graduate Center)

• Anna Deutsch (University of New Mexico)

• Infinity (Tianyuan) Fu (University of British Columbia)

• Alonzo Diaz (Emerson College)

Travel Grant Awardee:

• Witchuda Chaisong (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

Best Abstract Award:

• Malleeswari Jagabattuni, Julia Whelan, Ava Austin, Mikey Pagan (San Francisco State University)

  • Advantages and challenges in using ChatGPT in text simplification for Children 

Travel Grant Awardees:

• Hope Carney (University of Arizona)

• Hee Joong Choi (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

• Alejandro Curiel & Ny Vasil (California State University, East Bay)

• Aiko Dzikowski (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Apoorva Gunti & Jester Mediano (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Shahriar Hormozi (University of Arizona)

• Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen (University of Alberta)

• Whillamina Wise (Colorado State University)

Best Abstract Awards:

• Jade Jiaxuan Dang (University of Edinburgh)

  • Effect of Timing of the Model Text on Alignment in the Iterative Continuation Translation Task

• Tyler Méndez Kline (University of California, Davis)

  • The Perception of Monolingual vs. Code-Switched Sentences in Text-To-Speech (TTS) Voices

• Xuan Wang (University of Kansas), Yan Shi (University of Utah)

  • A CHILDES Study on Cross-Linguistic Influences and Morphological Salience in Bilingual Childrens' Morpheme Acquisition

Travel Grant Awardees:

• Jae Hyun Ahn (Indiana University Bloomington)

• M Angel (University of Chicago)

• Grace Farwell (Carleton College)

• Anna Malin Gerke (University of Washington)

• Keiji Iwamoto, Lily Kawaoto (Indiana University Bloomington)

• Noah Khaloo (University of California, San Diego)

• Julian Levine (University of California, Irvine)

• Andres Sanchez (University of California, Berkeley)

• Alexis Schlagenhauf (University of Colorado Boulder)

• Kaleen Shrestha, Deo Joshi (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Xuan Wang (University of Kansas), Yan Shi (University of Utah)

Travel Grant Awardees:

• Juan Berríos (University of Pittsburgh)

• Arturs Semenuks (University of California, San Diego)