Winter 2021 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be Tuesdays, 9:00-10:20. Since we spent much of the last two quarters presenting our own work, we'll spend at least the first part of this quarter getting caught up on our reading!

January 12

Discussion of: Pañeda, C., Lago, S., Vares, E., Veríssimo, J., & Felser, C. (2020). Island effects in Spanish comprehension. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 21. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1058

January 19

Discussion of: Sprouse, J, and S. Villata (in press). Island effects. In G. Goodall (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge University Press.

January 26

Discussion of: Pham, C., Covey, L., Gabriele, A., Aldosari, S., & Fiorentino, R. (2020). Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1).  http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1199

February 2

Discussion of: Chung, Sandra and Matthew Wagers (2020). On the universality of intrusive resumption. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://people.ucsc.edu/~mwagers/ChungWagers2020.ChamorroPalauanRPs.pdf

February 9

Part two of a discussion of the Chung & Wagers article on resumptive pronouns.

February 16

Discussion of Sedarous, Y and Namboodiripad, S. (2020). Using audio stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments. Language and Linguistics Compass 14:e12377. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12377

February 23

Three practice talks for the upcoming CUNY conference: Alex, Maho, and Grant (w/ Boyoung Kim). See the full conference schedule at  https://www.cuny2021.io/schedule/ 

   Alex: "Do islands affect only filler-gap dependencies? Evidence from Spanish"

    Maho: "Gap-filler dependencies are sensitive to islands: The case of Japanese relative clauses"

    Grant + Boyoung: "The COMP-trace effect and sentence planning: Evidence from L2"

March 2

Discussion of two abstracts from CUNY conference:

Rebecca Tollan & Bilge Palaz- The dual nature of subjecthood: Unifying subject islands and that-trace effects: https://www.cuny2021.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CUNY_2021_abstract_67.pdf 

Stephanie Rich & Matt Wagers- Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination: https://www.cuny2021.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CUNY_2021_abstract_361.pdf

 March 9

 Further discussion of papers from CUNY conference.

Grant will be on sabbatical in Spring, so we'll start up again in Fall Quarter!