Fall 2025 lab meetings

 Our meetings this quarter will be on Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30

October 8

We'll start the quarter with this recent article on wh-in-situ:

Nozomi Tanaka; Subliminal Island Effects in Japanese Complex NPs with Argument wh-in-situ. Linguistic Inquiry 2025;  https://doi.org/10.1162/LING.a.542

October 15

Can't believe we haven't read this already, but we're catching up:

Pañeda, C., Villata, S., Kush, D. & Sprouse, J., (2024) “A translation-matched, experimental comparison of three types of wh-island effects in Spanish and English”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11164

October 22

Grant will lead a discussion of "What I did over summer vacation," based on a project that he Ezgi and Claire have been working on over the last several months. We will see (1) some highlights of the major findings of the experiments and some hints of what the theoretical implications might be (though we'll save a deeper discussion of that for another day), (2) what happens when you run exactly the same experiment twice, under different circumstances with two different populations, and (3) a variety of cool analytical tricks you can do once you have the results from almost any experiment.

October 29

We'll discuss this recent article week:

Bruening, Benjamin & Tollan, Rebecca. 2025. Reconstruction in wh movement: the view from lexical reactivation. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.1.4. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17373.

November 5

Hugo will present a practice talk on Cantonese wh-in-situ that he will be giving soon at CAMP[8].

November 12

We continue our Fall wh-in-situ festival!

Pham, Linh, and Elsi Kaiser. 2025. “Constructing Dependencies With Optional Elements: Insights from Vietnamese”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10 (1): 5951. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5951.

November 19

We'll discuss a recent article on filler-gap processing in Norwegian:

Kobzeva, A. and Kush, D. 2024. Grammar and expectation in filler-gap dependency resolution: Experimental and modelling evidence from Norwegian. Cognitive Science 48, e13501.

December 3

For our final meeting of the quarter:

Kobzeva, A., Sant, C., Robbins, P.T., Vos, M., Lohndal, T. and Kush, D. 2022. Comparing island effects for different dependency types in Norwegian. Languages 7, 197.

Maho publishes in NLLT!

Maho and Grant just published an open-access article in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory entitled "Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives". Based on Maho's dissertation work, the article presents a new way of thinking about cross-linguistic variation in island phenomena.

No regular lab meetings in Spring quarter

Grant will be teaching a graduate seminar this quarter where we'll all be reading and discussing articles and presenting research in progress. In short, we'll be doing the sorts of things we usually do in lab meetings, so we won't have lab meetings this quarter unless a special need arises. The topic of the seminar is A'-movement, and it is open to everyone, whether you're enrolled or not!

Winter 2025 lab meetings

 Our meetings this quarter will be Fridays 12:00 - 1:30.

January 17

We'll continue our discussion from last quarter on the upcoming article by Shen and Lim in Syntax about extraction from DPs.

January 24

We'll have a special guest presentation at a special time (11:00): 

"Testing language models’ syntactic sensitivity to grammatical constraints: A case study of wanna contraction"

      Kangsan Noh, Korea University

      Sanghoun Song, Korea University

      Eunjeong Oh, Sangmyung University

February 14

Grant will lead a discussion of "Post-experiment number crunching: how to go from raw results to results that you can begin to interpret".

February 22

We'll discuss this recent NLLT article on extraction out of NPs:

Tollan, R., Doroudiani, B. & Heller, D. Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects. Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09643-3

February 29

Practice talks for Open House.

March 7

We'll discuss another recent NLLT article, this time on wh-in-situ:

Jin, D., Yan, H. Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation. Nat Lang Linguist Theory  (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09638-0

March 14

After our break last week, we'll return to this recent NLLT article on wh-in-situ:

Jin, D., Yan, H. Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation. Nat Lang Linguist Theory  (2024).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09638-0 

Grant named LSA Fellow!

Grant Goodall was named a 2025 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and was honored at a ceremony in January at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in Philadelphia. You can read the full story here.