Friday, January 20, 2012

Winter Quarter lab meetings

Here is the tentative list of presentations/discussion topics for this quarter:

Week    Date    
   2        Jan 18     Simone

   3        Jan 25     Pearl & Sprouse: Syntactic Islands without UG (part 1)
                http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/papers/PearlSprouse2011Manu_UGIslands.pdf

   4        Feb 1       Pearl & Sprouse: Syntactic Islands without UG (part 2)

   5        Feb 8       Gabe

   6        Feb 15      Koizumi, Masatoshi, and Katsuo Tamaoka. 2010. Psycholinguistic evidence for the VP-internal subject position in Japanese. Linguistic Inquiry 41, 663-680.

   7        Feb 22      Rodolfo

   8        Feb 29       Jesse Snedeker & Elizabeth Casserly (2010): Is it all relative? Effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension and production of attachment ambiguities, Language and Cognitive Processes, 25:7-9, 1234-1264

   9        Mar 7         Dan and Grant: Practice CUNY talk

   10      Mar 14       No meeting this week (CUNY conference)

Friday, January 6, 2012

Dan Michel presents at LSA

Dan Michel is one of many UCSD students, faculty and alums presenting at this year's Linguistic Society of America meeting in Portland. His paper, based on ongoing research of his in the lab, is entitled "Content-addressable working memory and the grammar-processing island debate."

Fall conference presentations

Here are some of our presentations on experimental syntax topics from the past few months:

Grant Goodall:  "¿Para qué sirve la sintaxis experimental?"  Universidad de Costa Rica, Programa de Posgrado en Lingüistica, Nov. 2, 2011.

Boyoung Kim: "Processing Relative Clauses in Heritage Korean." Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 4-6, 2011.

Dan Michel: "Individual differences inform the syntax-processing island debate."  Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, Nov. 16-18, 2011.

Dan Michel and Grant Goodall: "Finiteness effects in adjunct islands." Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, Nov. 16-18, 2011.