October 12
Coffee break! An informal meeting to plan out upcoming meetings, talk about the quarter in general, make sure everybody knows each other, etc.
October 16
Happy hour! An afternoon meeting to continue discussions from the 12th.
October 23
Sihun will give us a preview of the experiment he is currently designing that explores the possible role of focus prosody in ameliorating COMP-trace violations.
October 30
Duk-Ho will give us a preview of his upcoming NELS talk entitled "There is no wh-movement in sprouting."
November 6
Maho will walk us through a pair of experiments she did this summer on relative clauses in Japanese, one involving relativization out of relative clauses and the other involving binding into relative clauses.
November 20
Discussion of: Marty, P., Chemla, E., & Sprouse, J. (2020). The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1). https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/10.5334/gjgl.980/
December 4
Josh will present some of his recent work, where he uses acceptability and reading time data to explore potential differences between event nominals like running and event nominals like run (as in some running vs. a run).
