Friday, September 30, 2011

The lab hits the road: Photos from spring conferences

 Shin Fukuda speaks the truth about response methods at WCCFL, held in April at Univ. of Arizona, in joint paper with Dan Michel, Henry Beecher and Grant Goodall.
Non-eucalyptus tress on the beautiful Indiana U. campus, where Grant Goodall gave a talk in April.
Boyoung Kim tells the world about islands in L2 at GASLA, held at UW in March.
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall enjoying the cherry blossoms at Univ. of Washington for GASLA (photo by Alejandro Cuza).
Bethany Keffala explaining resumptive pronouns to the crowds at the CUNY Conference.
 Bethany Keffala at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, held at Stanford in March.
The UT Arlington campus was plastered with posters about experimental syntax in preparation for their annual Student Conference, where Grant Goodall was keynote speaker.

 Grant Goodall delivers the keynote address at UT Arlington. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)
Q+A time at UT Arlington for Grant Goodall. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)
Grant Goodall and Jeff Witzel (UT Arlington) talk shop.  (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Friday, September 23, 2011

Spring Quarter lab meetings

Here is a summary of the lab meeting topics for Spring Quarter:

Week   Date     Topic
   2       Apr 5    Sprouse & Almeida: "A Quantitative Defense of Linguistic Methodology"

   3       Apr 12   Dan Michel on some of his upcoming experiments

   4       Apr 19   WCCFL practice talk (Shin, Dan, Henry and Grant)

   5       Apr 26   Cancelled.

   6       May 3     Philip Hofmeister on "Understanding acceptability judgments:
                          distinguishing between effects of grammar and processing"

   7       May 10    Dave Hall on present perfect in temporal clauses

   8       May 17    Dan Michel on his recent work on adjuncts

    9      May 24    Crawford:  "Syntactic Satiation of Subject Islands"

  10      May 31    Final meeting: Snacks and conversation