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?