Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Dayoung and Savi at AMLaP 2017!
Dayoung Kim and Savi Namboodiripad (together with Gyeongnam Kim) presented a poster on "Bilingual Processing of Flexible Constituent Order in Korean" at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2017 conference at Lancaster University in the UK.
Spring Quarter '17 lab meetings
Our meetings this quarter will be Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00.
Apr. 12
Gustavo with a practice talk on "A Quantitative
Study on the Evolution of the Subjunctive System in Argentinean Spanish"
for the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages.
Apr. 26
Gustavo with a practice talk for his visit to Tromsø,
Norway, on "Acquisition under varying and stable input: The case of the
past subjunctive in Argentinean and Peninsular Spanish."
May 3
Till on his recent experimental work on VP Ellipsis.
May 10
Savi and Dayoung with a practice talk for CLS on
"English-dominant Korean speakers show reduced flexibility in constituent
order."
May 17
Discussion of Hettiarachchi and Pires article on L2
syntax and Sinhala wh-questions.
May 24 (11:00)
Preliminary results from experiment done by Bonnie Chinh
and Grant on embedded subject vs. object extraction in Spanish.
May 31
Continuation of discussion of Hettiarachchi and Pires
paper.
June 7
Gustavo will present results from his three-country
experiment on the choice of tense in Spanish subjunctive clauses.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Study experimental syntax and get rich!
Well, maybe you won't get rich, exactly, but it seems like a good way to get a job! This year's hiring season has been very good to some of our current and former lab members:
Savi Namboodiripad has accepted a 2-year Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship starting this fall, followed by a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019, both in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.
Gustavo Guajardo has accepted a position as a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University in the UK.
Rodolfo Mata has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting this fall at Western Washington University, where his primary responsibilities will be in teaching and research on Spanish linguistics. He is currently working at Colby College.
Emily Morgan has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019 in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University.
Congratulations to all!
Savi Namboodiripad has accepted a 2-year Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship starting this fall, followed by a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019, both in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan.
Gustavo Guajardo has accepted a position as a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Linguistics at the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University in the UK.
Rodolfo Mata has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting this fall at Western Washington University, where his primary responsibilities will be in teaching and research on Spanish linguistics. He is currently working at Colby College.
Emily Morgan has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in fall 2019 in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University.
Congratulations to all!
Sunday, April 2, 2017
UCSD → CUNY @ MIT
UCSD was out in force at the CUNY 2017 conference on sentence processing, held this year at MIT. Many lab affiliates/alums/friends participated, including Savi Namboodiripad, Boyoung Kim, Grant Goodall, Till Poppels, Emily Morgan, Shota Momma and Adam Morgan. Video of talks is available here, and many slides and posters are available here.
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| Boyoung and Grant's poster (available at: https://osf.io/h3vb7/ ) |
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| Savi's poster (available at https://osf.io/tjcgy/) |
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| What the world looks like once you leave San Diego |
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| Fabled main entrance to MIT on Mass Ave |
Festschrift for Sandy Chung
A festschrift in honor of Sandy Chung was made public recently, and Grant has an article on D-linking and resumptive pronouns in wh-dependencies, featuring an overview of work he did with Bethany Keffala and Alex Stiller:
- Goodall, G. (2017). Referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies. In Ostrove, Jason; Kramer, Ruth; & Sabbagh, Joseph (eds.), Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Winter '17 lab meetings
Our meetings this quarter will be (generally) Wednesdays, 2:30-4:00.
Jan. 11
Grant on referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies.
Jan. 18 (at 3:30)
William Matchin on "Structure and content in real-time: an integrated theory of syntax"
Jan. 25 (at 3:30)
Savi on "Towards a motivated model of contact-induced syntactic change: flexible constituent order and beyond"
Feb. 1
Shota on "Aligning parsing and generation"
Feb. 8
Boyoung and Grant (Grant presenting) with a preview of their upcoming CUNY presentation on "Filler-gap dependencies in L2: Implications for the analysis of islands."
Feb. 15
Savi with a preview of her upcoming CUNY presentation on "Using acceptability judgments to study language change: Age differences reflect differences in speakers' linguistic systems."
Feb. 22
Gustavo with a preview of his upcoming presentation at the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics on "Age of acquisition as a predictor of adult language variation."
Mar. 1
Discussion of Schuler, Yang and Newport (2016): http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/papers/syn2016.pdf
Mar. 8
Shota on successive cyclicity in production
Mar. 15
Discussion of Boxell, O., & Felser, C. (2016). Sensitivity to parasitic gaps inside subject islands in native and non-native sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-18.
Jan. 11
Grant on referentiality and resumption in wh-dependencies.
Jan. 18 (at 3:30)
William Matchin on "Structure and content in real-time: an integrated theory of syntax"
Jan. 25 (at 3:30)
Savi on "Towards a motivated model of contact-induced syntactic change: flexible constituent order and beyond"
Feb. 1
Shota on "Aligning parsing and generation"
Feb. 8
Boyoung and Grant (Grant presenting) with a preview of their upcoming CUNY presentation on "Filler-gap dependencies in L2: Implications for the analysis of islands."
Feb. 15
Savi with a preview of her upcoming CUNY presentation on "Using acceptability judgments to study language change: Age differences reflect differences in speakers' linguistic systems."
Feb. 22
Gustavo with a preview of his upcoming presentation at the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics on "Age of acquisition as a predictor of adult language variation."
Mar. 1
Discussion of Schuler, Yang and Newport (2016): http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/papers/syn2016.pdf
Mar. 8
Shota on successive cyclicity in production
Mar. 15
Discussion of Boxell, O., & Felser, C. (2016). Sensitivity to parasitic gaps inside subject islands in native and non-native sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-18.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Two new publications! That-trace and Korean islands!
"Prosody and the That-Trace Effect: An Experimental Study"
Amanda Ritchart, Grant Goodall, and Marc Garellek
pp. 320-328
Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
"An experimental investigation of island effects in Korean"
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 23
Amanda Ritchart, Grant Goodall, and Marc Garellek
pp. 320-328
Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
"An experimental investigation of island effects in Korean"
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 23
Austin and Buenos Aires!
Two recent conference presentations:
- Savi and Grant presented "Formal acceptability experiments as a tool for exploring variation in constituent order" at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, in Austin.
- Gustavo presented "Concordantia Temporum violations in Argentinean Spanish" at the Romania Nova VIII conference in Buenos Aires.
Lab meetings for Fall '16
Our meetings this quarter will be Wednesdays, 10am - 11am.
Oct. 5 and Oct. 12
Tucker, M. A., Idrissi, A., Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially: Acceptability data from Modern Standard Arabic. http://matthew-tucker.github.io/files/papers/resumption-islansds-arabic-acceptability.pdf
Oct. 19 and Oct. 26
Dillon, Brian, Adrian Staub, Joshua Levy, and Charles Clifton Jr. (in press). "Which noun phrases is the verb supposed to agree with? Object agreement in American English." Language
Nov. 2
Gustavo will give us a preview of his upcoming talk on Concordantia Temporum in Spanish at the Romania Nova conference, held this year in Buenos Aires.
Nov. 9
Oct. 5 and Oct. 12
Tucker, M. A., Idrissi, A., Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. Resumption ameliorates different islands differentially: Acceptability data from Modern Standard Arabic. http://matthew-tucker.github.io/files/papers/resumption-islansds-arabic-acceptability.pdf
Oct. 19 and Oct. 26
Dillon, Brian, Adrian Staub, Joshua Levy, and Charles Clifton Jr. (in press). "Which noun phrases is the verb supposed to agree with? Object agreement in American English." Language
Nov. 2
Gustavo will give us a preview of his upcoming talk on Concordantia Temporum in Spanish at the Romania Nova conference, held this year in Buenos Aires.
Nov. 9
Till and Savi will lead a discussion on distinguishing between gradient and discrete response patterns.
Nov. 16
Savi will share her preliminary results from the field experiments she did in India this summer on constituent order in Malayalam.
Nov. 30
Savi will give us a preview of her and Grant's upcoming presentation at the LSA on "Formal acceptability experiments as a tool for exploring variation in constituent order."
Spring Quarter '16 lab meetings
Our
meetings this quarter will be Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00.
Apr. 7
Dayoung will give us a tutorial on using Ibex for running experiments.
Apr.14
"Adaptation of Gap Predictions in Filler-Gap Dependency Processing" CUNY poster by Emily Atkinson & Akira Omaki
Apr.22 (special time)
Apr. 28
May 26
Apr. 7
Dayoung will give us a tutorial on using Ibex for running experiments.
Apr.14
"Adaptation of Gap Predictions in Filler-Gap Dependency Processing" CUNY poster by Emily Atkinson & Akira Omaki
Apr.22 (special time)
"Measuring the Degree of Convergence between Informal and Formal Acceptability Judgments
for Korean." Guest presentation by Sanghoun Song and Eunjeong Oh (Incheon National University
and Sangmyung University)
Apr. 28
"Which Subject Islands Will the Acceptability of Improve with Repeated Exposure" by Rui P. Chaves and Jeruen E. Dery. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/31/paper3011.pdf
May 26
Savi will give us a preview of her upcoming experiments on English and on Malayalam.
Boyoung goes to GALANA!
Boyoung Kim presented her joint poster with Grant Goodall on "Age of arrival effects in L2 islands" at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Conferences near and far
Lab members have been racking up miles going to the these conferences recently:
CUNY 2016: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Univ. of Florida (March)
Workshop on Dealing with Bad Data in Linguistic Theory, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam (March)
CUNY 2016: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Univ. of Florida (March)
- Alex Stiller and Grant Goodall presented "D-linking and working memory: New evidence from Spanish."
- Savithry Namboodiripad and Grant Goodall presented "Verb position predicts acceptability in a flexible SOV language."
- Grant Goodall presented "When data collide: A case study of traditional judgments vs. formal experiments in sentence acceptability."
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