Maho goes to Chicago!

 Maho presented some of her recent work on relative clauses in Japanese at this year's Chicago Linguistic Society conference. Her poster was entitled "Do islands care about the direction of the dependency? Evidence from double-gap relatives in Japanese".

CHES is here!

 The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax is now available, both online and in hardcopy. It has 27 chapters covering all aspects of experimental approaches to syntax, including chapters by lots of current and former UCSD people: Grant Goodall (who also edited the volume), Robert Kluender, Shin Fukuda, Shota Momma, and William Matchin. All of the content is freely available online for UCSD affiliates (use VPN if you are not on campus).

Spring 2022 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be Fridays 10:30-12:00.

April 8

Maho will give us her preview of her upcoming poster at the Chicago Linguistic Society.

April 15

Tory will walk us through her recent experiment comparing one putative copula in ASL with two others.

April 22 + May 6

We will discuss: Liu, Y. Winckel, E., Abeillé, E., Hemforth, B. & Gibson, E. (2022). Structural, Functional, and Processing Perspectives on Linguistic Island Effects. Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 8.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030319

May 13

Discussion of: Morgan, A. (2022). The that-trace effect and island boundary-gap effect are the same: Demonstrating equivalence with null hypothesis significance testing and psychometrics. Glossa Psycholinguistics. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gp237sm 

May 20

We'll discuss two papers in experimental syntax from the recently concluded WCCFL conference:

Huang et al.: "How good are leading theories of bridge verbs? An experimental evaluation"

Shen & Lim: "The definite DP island in wh questions and relative clauses"

May 27

We'll discuss: Vincent, J. W., Sichel, I., & Wagers , M. W. (2022). Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction. Languages, 7(2), 117. MDPI AG.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7020117

 

June 4

It's the end of the quarter and time for some more progress reports!

Alex: Wh-questions and Clitic Left-Dislocation with strong and weak islands

Duk-Ho: Adjunct extraction with strong and weak islands (and related topics)

Maho: Extraction out of relative clauses in Japanese: some new discoveries