No lab meetings in Spring '18

Grant is on sabbatical in Indonesia for Spring quarter, so lab meetings will resume in Fall 2018.

Dayoung presents work at CUNY 2018!

Dayoung presented a poster on "Complexity effects in A- and A'-dependencies" at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, which took place this year at UC Davis.

The work presented here is an important part of Dayoung's dissertation research, and she earlier presented a preview of it at this year's inaugural California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, held at UCLA in December.

Dayoung and her poster. Zoom in and read it!

Dayoung displays excellent presentation skills and crowd management techniques!

Winter '18 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter are Thursdays, 1:00-2:00.

Jan. 11
Grant will give an "encore performance" of Boyoung's and his talk at the recent LSA on "Long-distance extraction in L2 and the nature of island constraints." 

Jan. 18
Discussion of this recent article on islands in Norwegian (Part I):
Kush, D., Lohndal, T., & Sprouse, J. (2017). Investigating variation in island effects. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1-37.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11049-017-9390-z.pdf

Jan. 25
Norwegian islands, part II!

Feb. 1
Discussion of recent article on satiation and priming (part I):
Do, M. L., & Kaiser, E. (2017). The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First Look. Frontiers in Psychology, 8,1851. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01851

Feb. 8
Satiation and priming (part II)

Mar. 8
Dayoung will give us a preview of her upcoming CUNY poster on "Complexity effects in A- and A'-dependencies".

Boyoung and Grant on L2 islands at LSA

Alumnus Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall presented their paper on "Long-distance extraction in L2 and the nature of island constraints" at this year's LSA meeting in January in Salt Lake City.

Fall Quarter '17 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter are Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00.

Oct. 4
Fukuda, S., (2017). Split intransitivity in Japanese is syntactic: Evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis from sentence acceptability and truth value judgment experiments. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2(1), p.83. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.268

Oct. 11
Continuation of discussion on Fukuda article and Japanese unaccusativity.

Oct. 18
Who knew that Japanese split intransitivity could be so interesting? We continue our discussion today

Oct. 25
Sprouse, J., & Almeida, D. (2017). Design sensitivity and statistical power in acceptability judgment experiments. Glossa, 2(1), 1.
https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/abstract/10.5334/gjgl.236/

Nov. 1
Continuation of discussion of Sprouse & Almeida article

Nov. 8
Discussion of syntactic satiation and new paper by William Snyder

Nov. 15
Continuation of discussion syntactic satiation.

Nov. 22
Tollan, R., & Heller, D. (2015). Elvis Presley on an island: wh-dependency formation inside complex NP objects. In Proceedings of NELS (Vol. 46).

Nov. 29
Dayoung will present a practice version of her talk for this weekend's CAMP (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics): https://sites.google.com/view/camp-ucla2017/schedule?authuser=0

Dayoung and Savi at AMLaP 2017!

Dayoung Kim and Savi Namboodiripad (together with Gyeongnam Kim) presented a poster on "Bilingual Processing of Flexible Constituent Order in Korean" at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2017 conference at Lancaster University in the UK.

Spring Quarter '17 lab meetings

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

Apr. 12

Gustavo with a practice talk on "A Quantitative Study on the Evolution of the Subjunctive System in Argentinean Spanish" for the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages.

Apr. 26

Gustavo with a practice talk for his visit to Tromsø, Norway, on "Acquisition under varying and stable input: The case of the past subjunctive in Argentinean and Peninsular Spanish."

May 3

Till on his recent experimental work on VP Ellipsis.

 

May 10

Savi and Dayoung with a practice talk for CLS on "English-dominant Korean speakers show reduced flexibility in constituent order."

May 17

Discussion of Hettiarachchi and Pires article on L2 syntax and Sinhala wh-questions.

May 24 (11:00)

Preliminary results from experiment done by Bonnie Chinh and Grant on embedded subject vs. object extraction in Spanish.

May 31

Continuation of discussion of Hettiarachchi and Pires paper.

June 7

Gustavo will present results from his three-country experiment on the choice of tense in Spanish subjunctive clauses.