ILLS16 will take place at the iHotel & Illinois Conference Center (1900 S First St., Champaign). For parking, how to find conference rooms, and further instructions, check out ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/lodging-direct…

The conference schedule has been updated! Check out the finalized schedule at ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/files/2024/02/…

We're just two weeks away from ILLS16!

We present to you the ILLS16 organizing committee (we're missing a few members) and our two wonderful co-chairs!

Tomorrow is the day! Have a look at the conference booklet, where you will also find an abstract of each of our speakers, here: shorturl.at/dguV7

Have you checked in yet? Here's a video of how you can get to the registration table:

Dr. Michael Tanenhaus' plenary titled: A context constructivist account of contextual diversity and word frequency. Don't miss out on all our amazing talks today!

We hope you enjoyed ILLS16, and hope to see you again next year! Stay tuned for some conference pictures 🙂

First, our co-chairs, Mingyue Huo and Katherine Kwak, whose work has been invaluable and have worked hard… even without chairs!

Salvatore Callesano’s talk on heritage Spanish speakers in the US titled: “Monolingual expectations, bilingual realities: Sociolinguistic perceptions of Latinx languaging”

Rajka Smiljanik presented her work on speech processing: “Speaking to be understood: insights into speech processing and effective communication”

Ruth Kramer’s talk on gender assignment, titled “The Case Against Phonological Gender Assignment: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Hausa, Guébie and beyond”

Michael Tanenhaus presented his work on language processing titled “A context constructivist account of contextual diversity and word frequency”

Thank you to all our amazing speakers who shared their research with us this weekend. We learnt about all sorts of disciplines: semantics, morphosyntax, speech processing, heritage language… in a variety of linguistic families!

Here are some more photos of the poster session yesterday:

And lastly, thank you to all our attendees. We hope you enjoyed the conference, and we’ll see you next year for ILLS17!

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The 17th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society will take place March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Submissions of any field are welcomed. Deadline is January 31st, 2025. Link in our bio!

Deadline approaching!!! Do not miss it 🥰