We are honored to announce the keynote speakers for ACAL 51-52!
Dr. Enoch Aboh, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication. His research investigates the learnability of human languages with a special focus on syntax, language creation, and language change, particularly in Niger-Congo, Romance, Germanic, Atlantic creoles, and Sign languages. He is also a co-founder of the African Linguistics School.
Dr. Amina Mettouchi, Professor of Berber Linguistics at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and member of the LLACAN CNRS research unit. Her research focuses on the documentation and analysis of Berber/Amazigh languages, as well as the role of spoken corpora in cross-linguistic research. She is particularly interested in the fundamental role played by prosody at the core of language structure.
Dr. Laura McPherson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Dartmouth College. Her primary research focuses on phonology, morphology and language documentation. Her current project involves documenting and analyzing the linguistic underpinnings of musical surrogate languages around the world.