Fall 2025 lab meetings

 Our meetings this quarter will be on Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30

October 8

We'll start the quarter with this recent article on wh-in-situ:

Nozomi Tanaka; Subliminal Island Effects in Japanese Complex NPs with Argument wh-in-situ. Linguistic Inquiry 2025;  https://doi.org/10.1162/LING.a.542

October 15

Can't believe we haven't read this already, but we're catching up:

Pañeda, C., Villata, S., Kush, D. & Sprouse, J., (2024) “A translation-matched, experimental comparison of three types of wh-island effects in Spanish and English”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11164

October 22

Grant will lead a discussion of "What I did over summer vacation," based on a project that he Ezgi and Claire have been working on over the last several months. We will see (1) some highlights of the major findings of the experiments and some hints of what the theoretical implications might be (though we'll save a deeper discussion of that for another day), (2) what happens when you run exactly the same experiment twice, under different circumstances with two different populations, and (3) a variety of cool analytical tricks you can do once you have the results from almost any experiment.

October 29

We'll discuss this recent article week:

Bruening, Benjamin & Tollan, Rebecca. 2025. Reconstruction in wh movement: the view from lexical reactivation. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.1.4. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17373.

November 5

Hugo will present a practice talk on Cantonese wh-in-situ that he will be giving soon at CAMP[8].

November 12

We continue our Fall wh-in-situ festival!

Pham, Linh, and Elsi Kaiser. 2025. “Constructing Dependencies With Optional Elements: Insights from Vietnamese”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10 (1): 5951. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5951.

November 19

We'll discuss a recent article on filler-gap processing in Norwegian:

Kobzeva, A. and Kush, D. 2024. Grammar and expectation in filler-gap dependency resolution: Experimental and modelling evidence from Norwegian. Cognitive Science 48, e13501.

December 3

For our final meeting of the quarter:

Kobzeva, A., Sant, C., Robbins, P.T., Vos, M., Lohndal, T. and Kush, D. 2022. Comparing island effects for different dependency types in Norwegian. Languages 7, 197.