More photos from GLOW in Asia IX!

Thanks to the diligent photographers at GLOW in Asia IX (in September at Mie University, Japan), we now have an almost minute-by-minute photo record of Dan Michel and Grant Goodall's presentation on "Finiteness and the nature of island constraints".

Grant Goodall laying the groundwork.

The talk begins!

Grant Goodall explaining a crucial point.

The talk concludes!

Akira Watanabe (Univ. of Tokyo) asks a question.

Mamoru Saito (Nanzan Univ.), Grant's old office-mate from MIT days.

William Snyder (Univ. of Connecticut) asks a question.

Satoshi Tomioka (Univ. of Delaware) asks a question.

Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) asks a question.

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) asks a question.

Grant Goodall asks a question (at someone else's talk).

Fall quarter lab meetings

Lab meetings this quarter are Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00.  Here is the tentative list of topics (this will be updated as the quarter proceeds):

Week 2   Oct 11

Christensen, Ken,  Kizach, Johannes  Nyvad, Anne (2012). Escape from the Island: Grammaticality and (Reduced) Acceptability of wh-island Violations in Danish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w4p548q470n9q112/

Week 3   Oct 18

Chung-hye Han et al. (2012). Processing Strategies and Resumptive Pronouns in English.

WCCFL Proceedings 2012.

http://www.sfu.ca/~ega5/wccfl30-resumption.pdf

Week 4   Oct 25
Emily's tutorial on using WebExp and Amazon Mechanical Turk. 
 
Week 5  Nov 1  

Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, Ivan A. Sag (2012)..How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments?: A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips.

Language, Volume 88, Number 2, June 2012, pp. 390-400.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v088/88.2.hofmeister.html

Jon Sprouse, Matt Wagers, Colin Phillips (2012). Working-memory capacity and island effects: A reminder of the issues and the facts.Language, Volume 88, Number 2, June 2012, pp. 401-407

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v088/88.1.sprouse.html

Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, Ivan A. Sag (2012). Misapplying working-memory tests: A reductio ad absurdum. Language, Volume 88, Number 2, June 2012, pp. 408-409

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v088/88.2.hofmeister01.html

Week 6  Nov 8  
 Jantien Donkers, John C. J. Hoeks & Laurie A. Stowe (2011): D-linking or set-restriction? Processing Which-questions in Dutch. Language and Cognitive Processes
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01690965.2011.566343 

Week 7  Nov 15
Fun with abstracts!


Week 8  Nov 22
No meeting (Thanksgiving)
 
Week 9  Nov 29
Emily on frequency and acceptability.

Week 10  Dec 6
Dan's practice LSA talk.
 
 

Lab goes to GLOW in Asia IX!

Dan Michel and Grant Goodall's presentation on "Finiteness and the nature of island constraints" was part of the Workshop on Experimental Linguistics at the GLOW in Asia IX conference, held at Mie University, Japan, Sept. 3-6, 2012.

Participants came from all over Asia, Europe and the Americas to hear about finiteness and the nature of island constraints (among other things).

Hajime Ono, Grant's former star student and now Associate Professor at Kinki Univ. in Osaka.

Linguists (in background) undergo ritual purification at conclusion of conference.

Magnitude Estimation! Acquisition! Satiation!

Some lab publications that have appeared recently:

● About Magnitude Estimation
Shin Fukuda, Grant Goodall, Dan Michel, and Henry Beecher (2012). Is Magnitude Estimation Worth the Trouble? In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by Jaehoon Choi, E. Alan Hogue, Jeffrey Punske, Deniz Tat, Jessamyn Schertz, and Alex Trueman, pp. 328-336.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/29/abstract2718.html

● About Second Language Acquisition
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall (2011). Age-Related Effects on Constraints on Wh-movement. In Proceedings of the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2011), edited by Julia Herschensohn and Darren Tanner, pp. 54-62.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/gasla/11/abstract2545.html

● About satiation

Grant Goodall (2011). Syntactic Satiation and the Inversion Effect in English and Spanish Wh-Questions. Syntax, 14: 29–47.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2010.00148.x/abstract

Spring Quarter lab meetings

Lab meetings this quarter are Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:00.  Here is the tentative list of topics (this will be updated as the quarter proceeds):

Week 2   Apr 10

Phillips, C. (in press). On the nature of island constraints. I: Language processing and reductionist accounts.

http://ling.umd.edu/~colin/research/papers/phillips2012_islands1.pdf

Week 3   Apr 17
Phillips, C. (in press.) On the nature of island effects. II: Language learning and innateness.
http://ling.umd.edu/~colin/research/papers/phillips2012_islands2.pdf

Week 4   Apr 24
Omaki, A. & Schulz, B. (2011). Filler-gap dependencies and island constraints in second language processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 33, 563-­‐588.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=8433678&jid=SLA&volumeId=33&issueId=04&aid=8433676

Week 5  May 1
Polinsky, M, Clemens LE, Morgan AM, Xiang M, Heestand D. In Press. Resumption in English.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/files/sprouse_paper_latest.082911.pdf

Week 6  May 8
Sprouse, J., Fukuda, S., Ono, H. and Kluender, R. (2011), Reverse Island Effects and the Backward Search for a Licensor in Multiple Wh-Questions. Syntax, 14: 179–203.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00153.x/pdf

Week 7  May 15
Crawford, J. (2011). Using syntactic satiation to investigate subject islands.  29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29).
http://s93493490.onlinehome.us/CrawfordWCCFL.pdf

Week 8  May 22
Francom, J. (2009). Experimental Syntax: Exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure.  University of Arizona Ph.D. dissertation. Chapter 3. 

Week 9  May 29
Grant on a template for web-based acceptability experiments.

Week 10  June 5
Boyoung on islands in Korean-English bilinguals.
 
 

Dan and Grant's CUNY 2012 presentation

The CUNY 2012 presentation by Dan Michel and Grant Goodall is now available for download:

• (Adjunct) Islands and the Finiteness Effect. Paper presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 14, 2012.

Photos from CUNY 2012 conference

Dan Michel presenting his poster on similarity-based interference in long-distance dependencies.

The Empire State Building (across the street from the conference venue) at dusk.

Noam Chomsky speaking on "core contested concepts".

Dan Michel, alum Kate Davidson Zaremba, Gabe Doyle, and Rodolfo Mata (not visible, but being spoken to on phone). This is right after back-to-back talks by Noam Chomsky and Colin Phillips, and Gabe's bag appears to be radioactive. Not sure what that means.

Daffodils and non-eucalyptus trees in Central Park.