The lab goes to CUNY!

Two current lab projects will be presented at this year's CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing:

• Dan Michel and Grant Goodall ▪ Adjunct islands and the finiteness effect [Papers, March 14]
• Dan Michel ▪ Long-distance dependencies and content-addressable working memory [Poster Session 1]

Check out also the following poster, which Gabe Doyle gave us a preview of at a recent lab meeting:

• Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy ▪ Conceptual noise induces structural uncertainty during sentence processing

 Full information on this conference is at http://cuny2012.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ .

Winter Quarter lab meetings

Here is the tentative list of presentations/discussion topics for this quarter:

Week    Date    
   2        Jan 18     Simone

   3        Jan 25     Pearl & Sprouse: Syntactic Islands without UG (part 1)
                http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/papers/PearlSprouse2011Manu_UGIslands.pdf

   4        Feb 1       Pearl & Sprouse: Syntactic Islands without UG (part 2)

   5        Feb 8       Gabe

   6        Feb 15      Koizumi, Masatoshi, and Katsuo Tamaoka. 2010. Psycholinguistic evidence for the VP-internal subject position in Japanese. Linguistic Inquiry 41, 663-680.

   7        Feb 22      Rodolfo

   8        Feb 29       Jesse Snedeker & Elizabeth Casserly (2010): Is it all relative? Effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension and production of attachment ambiguities, Language and Cognitive Processes, 25:7-9, 1234-1264

   9        Mar 7         Dan and Grant: Practice CUNY talk

   10      Mar 14       No meeting this week (CUNY conference)

Dan Michel presents at LSA

Dan Michel is one of many UCSD students, faculty and alums presenting at this year's Linguistic Society of America meeting in Portland. His paper, based on ongoing research of his in the lab, is entitled "Content-addressable working memory and the grammar-processing island debate."

Fall conference presentations

Here are some of our presentations on experimental syntax topics from the past few months:

Grant Goodall:  "¿Para qué sirve la sintaxis experimental?"  Universidad de Costa Rica, Programa de Posgrado en Lingüistica, Nov. 2, 2011.

Boyoung Kim: "Processing Relative Clauses in Heritage Korean." Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov. 4-6, 2011.

Dan Michel: "Individual differences inform the syntax-processing island debate."  Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, Nov. 16-18, 2011.

Dan Michel and Grant Goodall: "Finiteness effects in adjunct islands." Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, Nov. 16-18, 2011.

Fall Quarter lab meetings

Here is the tentative list of meeting topics for the quarter. Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday at 1:00 (with the option of using Thursday at 1:00 instead if that's better in a given week).
 
Week  Date  Topic
  2        10/4    Gibson E., Piantadosi, S. and Fedorenko, K. (2011). Using Mechanical Turk to obtain and analyze English acceptability judgments. Language and Linguistics Compass 5(8), 509- 524.

  3        10/11   Bader, Markus. and  Jana Häussler. (2010). Toward a model of grammatical judgments. Journal of Linguistics 46: 273-330.

  4        10/18   Sprouse, Jon, Carson T. Schütze, & Diogo Almeida. Assessing the reliability of journal data in syntax: Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010.

  5        10/25   Boyoung: BU practice poster

  6        11/1    no meeting

  7        11/8    Dan: Practice Spain talk 

  8        11/15   Skopeteas, S., Fanselow, G., Focus and the exclusion of alternatives: On the interaction of syntactic structure with pragmatic inference. Lingua(2011),

  9        11/22   Ryan: Mini-presentation on recent ASL research

10        11/29  no meeting 


11        12/6    Simone: Update on experiments

The lab hits the road: Photos from spring conferences

 Shin Fukuda speaks the truth about response methods at WCCFL, held in April at Univ. of Arizona, in joint paper with Dan Michel, Henry Beecher and Grant Goodall.

Non-eucalyptus tress on the beautiful Indiana U. campus, where Grant Goodall gave a talk in April.

Boyoung Kim tells the world about islands in L2 at GASLA, held at UW in March.

Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall enjoying the cherry blossoms at Univ. of Washington for GASLA (photo by Alejandro Cuza).

Bethany Keffala explaining resumptive pronouns to the crowds at the CUNY Conference.

 Bethany Keffala at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, held at Stanford in March.

The UT Arlington campus was plastered with posters about experimental syntax in preparation for their annual Student Conference, where Grant Goodall was keynote speaker.

 Grant Goodall delivers the keynote address at UT Arlington. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Q+A time at UT Arlington for Grant Goodall. (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Grant Goodall and Jeff Witzel (UT Arlington) talk shop.  (Photo by Namrata Dubey)

Spring Quarter lab meetings

Here is a summary of the lab meeting topics for Spring Quarter:

Week   Date     Topic

   2       Apr 5    Sprouse & Almeida: "A Quantitative Defense of Linguistic Methodology"

   3       Apr 12   Dan Michel on some of his upcoming experiments

   4       Apr 19   WCCFL practice talk (Shin, Dan, Henry and Grant)

   5       Apr 26   Cancelled.

   6       May 3     Philip Hofmeister on "Understanding acceptability judgments:

                          distinguishing between effects of grammar and processing"

   7       May 10    Dave Hall on present perfect in temporal clauses

   8       May 17    Dan Michel on his recent work on adjuncts

    9      May 24    Crawford:  "Syntactic Satiation of Subject Islands"

  10      May 31    Final meeting: Snacks and conversation