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"

Winter '14 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter are on Fridays at 2:00.

Jan. 24 
Chaves, Rui P. and Jeruen E. Dery. "Which Subject Islands Will the Acceptability of Improve with Repeated Exposure?."  In 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Arizona State University. http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/wccfl.pdf

Jan. 31 
Bianchi, Valentina, and Cristiano Chesi. "Subject islands, reconstruction, and the flow of the computation."
http://www.ciscl.unisi.it/doc/doc_pub/bianchi_chesi_2013_subject_islands_reconstruction.pdf

A shorter version of this: http://www.ciscl.unisi.it/gg60/papers/bianchi_chesi.pdf

Feb. 7 (Open House)
TBA

Feb. 14 
Hofmeister, P. and E. Norcliffe (2013). "Does resumption facilitate sentence comprehension?" In P. Hofmeister & E. Norcliffe (eds.). The Core and the Periphery: Data-driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~phofme/resumption-hofmeister&norcliffe.pdf

Feb. 21
Adam Morgan on resumptive pronouns

Feb. 28
Salzmann, Martin, Jana Häussler, Markus Bader, and Josef Bayer. "That-trace effects without traces. An experimental investigation."
http://martinsalzmann.com/files/Salzmann_etalNELS42_that-trace.pdf

March 7
Felser, Claudia. "Language Processing Evidence for Linguistic Structure." Iberia 4.2 (2012): 1-22.
http://revistas.ojs.es/index.php/iberia/article/view/1119/866

March 14
Grant on the source of acceptability