Here is the tentative list of meeting topics for the quarter. Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday at 1:00 (with the option of using Thursday at 1:00 instead if that's better in a given week).
Week Date Topic
2 10/4 Gibson E.,
Piantadosi, S. and Fedorenko, K. (2011). Using Mechanical Turk to obtain
and analyze English acceptability judgments. Language and Linguistics
Compass 5(8), 509- 524.
3 10/11 Bader, Markus. and Jana Häussler. (2010). Toward a model of
grammatical judgments. Journal of Linguistics 46: 273-330.
4 10/18 Sprouse, Jon, Carson T. Schütze, & Diogo Almeida. Assessing the reliability of journal data in syntax:
Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010.
5 10/25 Boyoung: BU practice poster
6 11/1 no meeting
7 11/8 Dan: Practice Spain talk
8 11/15 Skopeteas, S., Fanselow, G., Focus and the exclusion of
alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic
inference. Lingua(2011),
9 11/22 Ryan: Mini-presentation on recent ASL research
10 11/29 no meeting
11 12/6 Simone: Update on experiments