The LSA is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Five-Minute Linguist (5ML) Event to be held at the 2022 Annual Meeting on the evening of Friday, January 7th. The 5ML presentations showcase interesting and exciting linguistics research presented in a dynamic, engaging, and accessible way. This has become one of the most popular events at our annual meeting, and this year it will be live streamed to include both virtual and in-person presentations. Please join us for this perennial audience favorite!

This year's event features: 

• Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California): How (People React) to Talk About COVID-19: Linguistics and Public Health Communication
• Kristie Denlinger (University of Texas at Austin): Does a Man Need to Make a Man-Made Lake?
• Taylor Jones (CulturePoint/ Naval Postgraduate School), Christopher Hall (CulturePoint): Reexamining Negative Concord and Definiteness in African American English
• Tracey Adams (University of Texas at Austin): Perceptions of Ethnolectal Variation in Montreal
• Jennifer Kaplan (University of California, Berkeley), Cecelia Cutler (City University of New York): I'm Tawkin' Here: Why don't New Yorkers Sound like Noo Yawkas Anymore?
• Yuan Yang (University of Maryland), Daniel Goodhue (University of Maryland); Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland); Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland): Are You Asking Me or Telling Me? Learning to Identify Questions in Early Speech to Children
• Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa'd (Purdue University), Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University): ST Homesign: The Story of Natural Language Emergence in a Rural Area
• Yue Ji (Bejing Institute of Technology), Anna Papafragou (Univ. of Pennsylvania): Boundedness in Event Cognition: Viewers Spontaneously Represent the Temporal Texture of Events

Each participant will be given five minutes for a presentation that will receive constructive, friendly feedback from a panel of judges. The result will be a combination of a live audience vote and the consensus of the judges. Our panel of judges features Lane Greene (journalist at The Economist and 2018 LSA Linguistics Journalism Award winner), Arika Okrent (Author of Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and 2016 LSA Linguistics Journalism Award winner), Ben Zimmer (journalist, Wall Street Journal, and co-host of the podcast Spectacular Vernacular), and Gretchen McCulloch (host of Lingthusiasm). Coaches for this event who've graciously donated their time to prepare presenters include Ann Bunger, Rachel Burdin, Anne Curzan, Lisa Davidson, Jeff Good, Colin Phillips, Laura Wagner, and Georgia Zellou. It has been organized through the many efforts of Kristen Syrett, associate proffesor at Rutgers University and Chair of the LSA Public Relations Committee.

Watch the videos from the 2018, 2019, and 2020 editions of Five-Minute Linguist events. The 2021 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.