Alex and Duk-Ho go to spring conferences!

Lab members will be spreading out across the continent this spring to tell the world about all the amazing things they've been discovering. First, Duk-Ho Jung will go to the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at UMass Amherst in March to present a poster on "Two types of wh-dependencies: Same, but different." This is the most important conference on psycholinguistics in North America and this year, it has a special emphasis on the relationship between psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics. 

Then in April, Alex Rodríguez will be heading to Austin, Texas for the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages to present a poster on "On the universality of wh-islands: Experimental evidence from Spanish." LSRL is the premier conference on Romance linguistics in the U.S. and Alex's paper is on a topic that is sure to attract a lot of attention.

Winter '20 lab meetings

We have reserved Fridays 9:30-11 for lab meetings this quarter, but we'll only have them on an occasional basis, when someone wants to give a practice talk, present preliminary results from an experiment, etc. Grant is teaching a seminar this quarter on "Subjects and Extraction," and this will take the place of (most) lab meetings for the quarter. 

Duk-Ho presents at the LSA!

Duk-Ho Jung is going to New Orleans in January to present his latest work at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The title of his poster is "A wh-dependency that does not obey islands: Remnants and correlates in backward sprouting".

Fall '19 lab meetings

Our lab meetings this quarter will be Fridays, 9:00-10:00.

Oct. 4
We'll discuss Grant's forthcoming article "Sentence acceptability experiments: what, how, and why."

Oct. 11
We'll discuss a forthcoming article by Jana Häussler and Tom Juzek on dealing with variability in stimuli and participants in syntax experiments.

Oct. 18
We'll discuss a forthcoming article on the relationship between "theoretical" and "experimental" linguistics by Colin Phillips, Phoebe Gaston, Nick Huang, and Hanna Muller.

Oct. 25
Continuation of article by Phillips et al.

Nov. 1
We'll discuss a forthcoming article by Sam Featherston on the pros and cons of different response methods in acceptability experiments.

Nov. 8
We'll discuss this really interesting recent article on quantifying different measures of acceptability:

• Langsford, S., Perfors, A., Hendrickson, A. T., Kennedy, L. A., & Navarro, D. J. (2018). Quantifying sentence acceptability measures: Reliability, bias, and variability. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), 37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.396

Nov. 15
Continuation of Langsford et al. article.

Nov. 22
We'll discuss a forthcoming article by William Snyder on the ever-fascinating phenomenon of satiation. 

Dec. 6
Duk-Ho will do a practice presentation of his LSA poster on "A wh-dependency that does not obey islands: Remnants and correlates in backward sprouting." Our last meeting of the quarter!

Duk-Ho goes to Davis!

Duk-Ho Jung presented the paper "Backward Sprouting is not sensitive to islands" at the international Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis Conference, held this year at UC Davis in conjunction with the LSA Summer Institute.

Gustavo and Grant publish article in Glossa!

Gustavo Guajardo, who finished his Ph.D. in 2017, and Grant Goodall have published “On the status of Concordantia Temporum in Spanish: An experimental approach” in the open-access journal Glossa. This article is based on a large-scale acceptability experiment done in three countries as part of Gustavo’s dissertation work. The article argues that the agreement mechanism known as Concordantia Temporum, in which matrix and subjunctive clauses appear to agree in tense, actually does not exist and that the facts are better accounted for by general principles of tense interpretation. Gustavo is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.