Winter 2022 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be held Fridays 3:00-4:30.

January 14

Maho will give us an update on her upcoming experiment on double-gap relative clauses in Japanese.

January 21

Duk-Ho will give us a progress report on the experiment that he is developing to explore argument vs. adjunct extraction.

January 28

Alex will walk us through his about-to-be-run experiment on wh-extraction and Clitic Left-Dislocation in Spanish.

February 4

Discussion of: Yang, C., & Montrul, S. (2017). Learning datives: The Tolerance Principle in monolingual and bilingual acquisition. Second Language Research, 33(1), 119-144.

February 11

Discussion of: Newmeyer, F. J. (2016). Nonsyntactic explanations of island constraints. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2, 187-210.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040707

February 18 + 25

Discussion of: van Urk, C. (2020). Successive Cyclicity and the Syntax of Long-Distance Dependencies. Annual Review of Linguistics Vol. 6:111-130 

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012318

March 4

Discussion of: Cokal D, Sturt P (2022) The real-time status of strong and weak islands. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263879. 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263879

March 11

Progress reports from Alex, Duk-Ho, and Maho on the experiments that they are currently preparing and/or running.

Fall 2021 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be held Fridays 12 - 1. 

October 8 + 15

Discussion of: Liu, Y. et al. (2021). A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English.  Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104902

October 22 + 29

Discussion of: Hirayama, H., (2018) “Revisiting a null pronominal account for parasitic gaps in Japanese”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1), p.117. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.522

November 5

Discussion of: Lu, J., Thompson, C. K., & Yoshida, M. (2020). Chinese wh-in-situ and islands: A formal judgment study. Linguistic Inquiry, 51(3), 611-623.

November 12 + 19

Discussion of: Abeillé, A., Hemforth, B., Winckel, E., & Gibson, E. (2020). Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction. Cognition, 204, 104293.

November 28

Continuation of previous article and discussion of: Kush, D. & Sant, C. & Strætkvern, S. B., (2021) “Learning Island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- and youth-directed text in Norwegian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5774