{"id":917,"date":"2026-01-18T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/?p=917"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:58:27","slug":"purdue-linguistics-goes-to-new-orleans-for-lsa-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/purdue-linguistics-goes-to-new-orleans-for-lsa-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Linguistics goes to New Orleans for LSA 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ExLing lab was well represented at the recent Linguistic Society of America 2026 meeting in New Orleans, where lab members gave three talks and a poster.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEye-Tracking Evidence on L2 Scope Interpretation: An Approximate Replication\u201d Shaohua Fang, Jingying Hu, and Elaine Francis (presented by Shaohua and Jingying)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnimacy Effects in Production and Comprehension of English Object Relative Clauses\u201d Yue Li and Elaine Francis (presented by Yue)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCan LLMs Read Between the Scopes? A Cross-Linguistic Study of Quantifier-Negation Interpretations\u201d Shaohua Fang, Yue Li, and Yan Cong (presented by Shaohua and Yue)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat Moderates the Congruency Effect in Collocational Processing? Evidence from English-Speaking Learners of Chinese\u201d Xiaolong Lu<strong>,<\/strong> Shaohua Fang, Xiaoyu Liu (presented by Shaohua)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also at this meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/news\/college\/2026\/linguistic-society-of-america-honors-purdue-professor.html\">Prof. Ronnie Wilbur was honored as a new LSA Fellow<\/a> for her groundbreaking research in sign language linguistics and her advocacy work for deaf education. Congratulations Ronnie!<\/p>\n<p>Other Purdue Linguistics colleagues and recent alumni also gave several presentations in New Orleans on topics including interrogatives in an emerging sign language (Hatam Tamimi and Ronnie Wilbur), Mandarin-English code-switching (Yi-Fang Cheng), Africatown English (Leah Nodar), and focus prominence in ASL (Serpil Karab\u00fckl\u00fc). It was great to meet up with these colleagues and also our former lab member Yongjia Deng, who is now a PhD student at UW Madison.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-918\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-918 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Purdue-LSA2026-group-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nine people lined up against the wall wearing academic conference clothes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Purdue-LSA2026-group-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Purdue-LSA2026-group-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Purdue-LSA2026-group.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue linguists: Yi-Fang Cheng, Serpil Karab\u00fckl\u00fc, Leah Nodar, Jingying Hu, Yue Li, Ronnie Wilbur, Elaine Francis, Shaohua Fang, Yongjia Deng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-919\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-919 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: woman in receiving award, woman presenting award, podium that says LSA\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026-643x1024.jpg 643w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026-768x1223.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026-965x1536.jpg 965w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wilbur-Fellow-award-LSA2026.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Wilbur receiving the LSA Fellow award from Melissa Baese-Berk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-920 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LSA2026-exling-lab-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Four people dressed in academic conference clothes, standing besides a sign that says Welcome\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LSA2026-exling-lab-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LSA2026-exling-lab-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cla.purdue.edu\/english\/francislab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LSA2026-exling-lab.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ExLing Lab members Shaohua Fang, Elaine Francis, Jinging Hu, and Yue Li<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ExLing lab was well represented at the recent Linguistic Society of America 2026 meeting in New Orleans, where lab members gave three talks and a poster. \u201cEye-Tracking Evidence on L2 Scope Interpretation: An Approximate Replication\u201d Shaohua Fang, Jingying Hu, and Elaine Francis (presented by Shaohua and Jingying) \u201cAnimacy Effects in Production and Comprehension of 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