Fall Quarter lab meetings

Here is the tentative list of meeting topics for the quarter. Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday at 1:00 (with the option of using Thursday at 1:00 instead if that's better in a given week).
 
Week  Date  Topic
  2        10/4    Gibson E., Piantadosi, S. and Fedorenko, K. (2011). Using Mechanical Turk to obtain and analyze English acceptability judgments. Language and Linguistics Compass 5(8), 509- 524.

  3        10/11   Bader, Markus. and  Jana Häussler. (2010). Toward a model of grammatical judgments. Journal of Linguistics 46: 273-330.

  4        10/18   Sprouse, Jon, Carson T. Schütze, & Diogo Almeida. Assessing the reliability of journal data in syntax: Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010.

  5        10/25   Boyoung: BU practice poster

  6        11/1    no meeting

  7        11/8    Dan: Practice Spain talk 

  8        11/15   Skopeteas, S., Fanselow, G., Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference. Lingua(2011),

  9        11/22   Ryan: Mini-presentation on recent ASL research

10        11/29  no meeting 


11        12/6    Simone: Update on experiments

The lab hits the road: Photos from spring conferences

 Shin Fukuda speaks the truth about response methods at WCCFL, held in April at Univ. of Arizona, in joint paper with Dan Michel, Henry Beecher and Grant Goodall.

Non-eucalyptus tress on the beautiful Indiana U. campus, where Grant Goodall gave a talk in April.

Boyoung Kim tells the world about islands in L2 at GASLA, held at UW in March.

Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall enjoying the cherry blossoms at Univ. of Washington for GASLA (photo by Alejandro Cuza).

Bethany Keffala explaining resumptive pronouns to the crowds at the CUNY Conference.

 Bethany Keffala at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, held at Stanford in March.

The UT Arlington campus was plastered with posters about experimental syntax in preparation for their annual Student Conference, where Grant Goodall was keynote speaker.

 Grant Goodall delivers the keynote address at UT Arlington. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Q+A time at UT Arlington for Grant Goodall. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Grant Goodall and Jeff Witzel (UT Arlington) talk shop.  (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Spring Quarter lab meetings

Here is a summary of the lab meeting topics for Spring Quarter:

Week   Date     Topic

   2       Apr 5    Sprouse & Almeida: "A Quantitative Defense of Linguistic Methodology"

   3       Apr 12   Dan Michel on some of his upcoming experiments

   4       Apr 19   WCCFL practice talk (Shin, Dan, Henry and Grant)

   5       Apr 26   Cancelled.

   6       May 3     Philip Hofmeister on "Understanding acceptability judgments:

                          distinguishing between effects of grammar and processing"

   7       May 10    Dave Hall on present perfect in temporal clauses

   8       May 17    Dan Michel on his recent work on adjuncts

    9      May 24    Crawford:  "Syntactic Satiation of Subject Islands"

  10      May 31    Final meeting: Snacks and conversation

Spring conference presentations

Some upcoming presentations on lab research projects:

Shin Fukuda, Dan Michel, Grant Goodall & Henry Beecher: "Is Magnitude Estimation Worth the Trouble?"
29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Univ. of Arizona, April 22-24

Grant Goodall: "Experimental explorations of ECP and island effects"
Indiana University , Dept. of Linguistics Colloquium, April 4

Boyoung Kim & Grant Goodall: "Age-related Effects on Constraints on Wh-movement"
11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Univ. of Washington, March 25-27, 2011

Bethany Keffala & Grant Goodall: "Do resumptive pronouns ever rescue illicit gaps in English?"
CUNY 2011: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford Univ., March 24-26, 2011

Grant Goodall: "What is experimental syntax good for?"
18th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, March 3-4, 2011

Meeting topics for rest of Winter Quarter

Here is the schedule of discussion topics for lab meetings in the rest of Winter Quarter:

Week   Date     Topic

   4       Jan 24   DeKeyser, Alfi-Shabtay & Ravid article on age effects in SLA

 

   5       Jan 31   Sprouse article on magnitude estimation

 

   6       Feb 7     Emily Morgan will discuss her satiation project

 

   7       Feb 14   Casasanto, Hofmeister & Sag article on additivity

 

   9       Feb 28   Sprouse, Wagers & Philips article on working memory and islands

 

  10      Mar 7     Sprouse & Almeida article on linguistic methodology

 

All meetings are at 10:00am.

Winter Quarter lab meetings

Lab meetings this quarter will take place on Mondays at 10am. Our first reading for discussion will be:

Heestand, Dustin, Ming Xiang, and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Resumption still does not rescue islands. Linguistic Inquiry.

Upcoming conference presentations

Here are some conference presentations by lab members that will occur in the near future:

LSA Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh), January:
Boyoung Kim: Long-distance Wh-movement in L2 English: An experimental study of gradience in acceptability

Berkeley Linguistics Society, February:
Bethany Keffala: Resumption in English: Relative Acceptability Creates an Illusion of ‘Saving’

Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (Seattle), March:
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall: Age-related Effects on Constraints on Wh-movement
 
18th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, March:
Grant Goodall (keynote address): What is Experimental Syntax Good for?