Monday, June 23, 2014

Spring '14 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter are on Wednesdays at 9:30am.

Apr. 2
Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Katsuo Tamaoka, Satoshi Tomioka
"Prosodic matters in intervention effects in Japanese: An experimental study"
Lingua 124 (2013) 41--63   link


Apr. 9
Amanda Ritchart will present results from her experiment on prosody and the that-trace effect.

Apr. 16
Alex Stiller-Shulman will present results from his experiment on subject inversion in Spanish wh-questions. 

May 14
Discussion of poster from CUNY 2014: "Relativized Minimality: a systematic investigation on intervention effects" by Sandra Villata, Luigi Rizzi, Akira Omaki and Julie Franck.

May 21
Discussion of poster from CUNY 2014: "Resumptive pronouns salvage island violations in forced-choice tasks" by Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida 

May 28
Discussion of Bonnie Chinh's experiment on subject vs. object extraction in Spanish.

June 23
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce Daniel Michel’s dissertation defense on Monday, June 23, 2014, 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm in the Applied Physics and Mathematics Building room 4301:

"Individual cognitive measures and working memory accounts of syntactic island phenomena"