The lab hits the road this spring!

Here are some of the lab presentations that you will see at conferences this spring:

28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing:
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

   "On the universality of adjunct islands: Evidence from Malayalam"
     Savithry Namboodiripad and Grant Goodall

   "Subject islands are subject islands (even when the subject is a wh-filler)"
     Grant Goodall

33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics:
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)

   "Prosody and the that-trace effect: An experimental study"
     Amanda Ritchart, Grant Goodall and Marc Garellek

Winter '15 meetings

Our meetings this quarter are on Mondays at noon.

Jan. 12
Haegeman, L., Jiménez-Fernández, Á. & Radford, A. (2014). Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation. The Linguistic Review, 31(1), pp. 73-150.   Part 1 (link)

Jan. 26
Haegeman, L., Jiménez-Fernández, Á. & Radford, A. (2014). Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation. The Linguistic Review, 31(1), pp. 73-150.   Part 2 (link)

Feb. 2
Almeida, Diogo. "Subliminal wh-islands in Brazilian Portuguese and the consequences for syntactic theory." (link)

Feb. 9
Discussion of processing overload and its effects on acceptability, with special reference to wh-islands. 

Feb. 23
Savi will give us a preview of her CUNY poster called On the universality of adjunct islands: Evidence from Malayalam.

Mar. 2
Amanda will give us a preview of her WCCFL talk (with Marc and Grant) on Prosody and the that-trace effect: an experimental study.   

Mar. 9
Grant will give us a preview of his CUNY poster on Subject islands are still islands (even when the subject is a wh-filler).

New publication

Grant Goodall just published an article in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences in a special volume on Encoding and navigating linguistic representations in memory, edited by Claudia Felser, Colin Phillips, and Matthew Wagers:

• Goodall G (2015) The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islands. Front. Psychol. 5:1493.  (link)

Fall '14 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter are on Mondays at 9:00am.

Oct. 20
Discussion of D-linking, islands, grammar and processing.

Oct. 27
Jon Sprouse, Ivano Caponigro, Ciro Greco, and Carlo Cecchetto. "Experimental syntax and the cross-linguistic variation of island effects in English and Italian."  Part 1  (link)

Nov. 3
Jon Sprouse, Ivano Caponigro, Ciro Greco, and Carlo Cecchetto. "Experimental syntax and the cross-linguistic variation of island effects in English and Italian."  Part 2  (link)

Nov. 10
Mahowald, K., Graff, P., Hartman, J., & Gibson, E. SNAP Judgments: A Small N Acceptability Paradigm (SNAP) for Linguistic Acceptability Judgments. (link)

Nov. 17
Masaya Yoshida, Jiyeon Lee & Michael Walsh Dickey (2013). The island (in)sensitivity of sluicing and sprouting. In Jon Sprouse and Norbert Hornstein (eds.) Experimental Syntax and Island Effects. Cambridge University Press.

Dec. 1
Discussion of Savi's experiment on Malayalam.

The lab goes to Edinburgh!

Two lab-related projects were presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference in Edinburgh, Scotland:

Working memory influences processing of whether-islands: The N400 reflects gap predictability in high span readers
Dan Michel, Robert Kluender, Seana Coulson

Gaps within fillers are not better than gaps within subjects
Grant Goodall

Dan Michel defends dissertation!

Dan Michel defended his dissertation, entitled Individual Cognitive Measures and Working Memory Accounts of Syntactic Island Phenomena, on June 23. Congratulations, Dan!!!

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"