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Elaine J. Francis is a professor in the Department of English at Purdue University, where she has been teaching linguistics and directing the Experimental Linguistics Lab since 2003. She completed her PhD in linguistics at the University of Chicago in 1999 and taught for three years in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. In her research, she investigates syntactic, discourse, and processing-based factors that affect the realization of syntactic alternations in English and Cantonese. Her research articles have been published in journals including Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Language and Cognition, Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Lingua. She is the co-editor with Laura Michaelis of the edited collection Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (CSLI Publications, 2003) and the author of the forthcoming book Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Professor and Associate Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University, studying perception, memory, and action using converging cognitive neuroscience methods across the lifespan. Recipient of awards from the NSF, Psychonomic Society, APA, APF, and a fellow of AAAS, APS, APA, the Midwest Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Published three books, two edited volumes, 100 journal articles and articles for Salon, Aeon, and The New York Times.

John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He attended Temple University as an undergraduate, majoring in Speech, Rhetoric, and Communication, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for formulating the concept of linguistic profiling and has conducted research on that topic in the United States, Brazil, the Caribbean, England, France, and South Africa. That research was variously supported by The Ford Foundation, The National Science Foundation, The United States Department of State, The United States Department of Justice, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Most of his research is devoted to finding ways to use linguistic science to advance equality and to improve the human condition globally. His most recent book is titled, Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice. (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is a past president of the American Dialect Society, and currently serves on the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He is president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sun-Ah Jun is a Professor at UCLA, Department of Linguistics (Ph.D at Ohio State University, 1993). She has also taught at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute and at the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) Summer School. Her research interests include intonational phonology, prosodic typology, the effect of prosody in segment perception and sentence processing, the interface between prosody/syntax/focus, and language acquisition.