Fall 2024 lab meetings

 Our lab meetings this quarter will be (generally) Fridays 12:00 - 1:00.

October 11

Grant will do part 1 of a tutorial on "how to do an acceptability experiment", focusing on stimuli creation and counterbalancing.

October 18

Part 2 of "how to do an acceptability experiment", looking at more counterbalancing, pseudo-randomization, and fillers.

October 25

Part 3 of "how to do an acceptability experiment", with the focus this time on using Qualtrics as a platform for running the experiment. 

November 8

For our meeting this week, Hugo will give us a preview of his CAMP poster exploring D-linking in Cantonese.

November 15

No meeting this week. CAMP[7] starts tomorrow!

Spring 2024 lab meetings

Our meeting times this quarter will be Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30.

April 11
We'll continue our discussion of the Momma & Dillon response that we started looking at last quarter:

Momma, Shota and Dillon, Brian. Discourse Factors Do Not Explain Islands. 

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4635713 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4635713

April 18

After our excellent discussion last week, we'll continue our "manner-of-speaking" series with the latest reply from Goldberg, Cuneo and Fergus:

Adele E. Goldberg, Nicole Cuneo, Abigail Fergus. Addressing a challenge to the Backgroundedness account of islands, March 25, 2024. https://osf.io/hmc9n/download/?format=pdf

May 2

This week we'll talk about some current work by Jon Sprouse and Sandra Villata on D-linking and strong/weak islands. The slides from a recent talk of theirs are available here .

May 9

We'll continue our discussion of the Sprouse & Villata slides.

May 16

Since we've been talking about D-linking, we'll continue along those lines with this recent WCCFL poster:

Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questions

Zheng Shen and Beth Chan, WCCFL 2024

Abstract: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p4GO_HZ-IkpJahTket5RfPB-sADY4KeW/view?usp=sharing

Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/152oPbmJEwWaNBGRYbQrvFAE3lXihYEFD/view?usp=sharing

May 23

Grant will show us some work in progress that he has been doing on D-linking.

May 30

We'll discuss this poster on Singapore English that Unsub saw at the recent HSP conference:

Islands for wh-extraction and wh-in-situ are backgrounded in Singlish (but not all backgrounded constructions are islands)

https://osf.io/495nr/

Beth Chan and Zheng Shen

June 6

To finish up the quarter, we'll discuss at least the first part of this recent article:

Christensen, K. R. & Nyvad, A., (2024) “Complexity, frequency, and acceptability”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10618

 

Winter 2024 lab meetings

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

January 19

We'll start off the quarter by discussing this article on Shupamem:

Schurr H, Kandybowicz J, Nchare AL, Bucknor T, Ma X, Markowska M, Tapia A. Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem. Languages. 2024; 9(1):7. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010007

January 26

Maho will give us a tutorial on doing Bayesian analyses of the results of acceptability experiments.

February 2

We'll discuss this article:

Huang, N. Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese. Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4

February 9

We'll continue our discussion of the N. Huang article from before, and if there's time, we can start in on this:

Wurmbrand, S. (2024). The Size of Clausal Complements. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031522-103802

March 1

We'll shift gears this week and start in on this recent article:

Cuneo, N., & Goldberg, A. E. (2023). The discourse functions of grammatical constructions explain an enduring syntactic puzzle. Cognition, 240, 105563.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105563

March 8

Continuation of the Cuneo & Goldberg article!

March 15

For our last meeting of the quarter, we'll discuss this reaction to the Cuneo & Goldberg article:

Momma, Shota and Dillon, Brian, Discourse Factors Do Not Explain Islands. 

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4635713 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4635713

Fall 2023 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be Fridays, 11:30 - 1:00. 

October 13

We'll start the quarter off by reading the following recent article:

Fukuda, S., Ono, H., Tanaka, N., & Sprouse, J. (2023). Re-examining Island Effects with NP-scrambling in Japanese: The Effect of Individual Variation. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 30.

October 27

Continuation of our discussion of the Fukuda et al. article on scrambling in Japanese.

November 3

Seoyeon will give us a progress report on her project about pair-list and functional readings in Korean multiple-wh (echo) questions.

November 17

Unsub will present his work on negative polarity illusions in Korean. 

December 8

Grant will present his recent work on the COMP-trace effect in English.

December 15

Maho will give us a preview of her upcoming talk at the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP). Maho's talk is on scrambling out of relative clauses in Japanese and its relation to presuppositionality.

Spring 2023 lab meetings

Grant is on sabbatical this quarter, so we are having meetings only occasionally.

April 14
Duk-Ho will walk us through his recent self-paced reading experiment on adjunct wh-dependencies.

May 19

Yourdanis Sedarous and Savi Namboodiripad, both of Univ. of Michigan, will be our guests this time as they present their recent work on the effects of prosody and cliticization on resumptive pronouns. 

Grant speaks in CRL talk series

Grant gave a presentation in the weekly talk series at the Center for Research on Language on "What L2 speakers can tell us about filler-gap dependencies." The slides are available here. 

Alex and Maho go to HSP 2023 in Pittsburgh!

The lab will be represented at this year's Human Sentence Processing conference by three posters, one by Alex Rodríguez and two by Maho Takahashi:

• Maho: Island effects persist despite context: The case of double relatives in Japanese
• Maho: Crossed vs. nested dependencies and crosslinguistic variability in islands
• Alex: Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish: Island sensitivity without gaps

The program also has presentations by former labmates Emily Morgan and Shota Momma.