Meeting topics for rest of Winter Quarter

Here is the schedule of discussion topics for lab meetings in the rest of Winter Quarter:

Week   Date     Topic

   4       Jan 24   DeKeyser, Alfi-Shabtay & Ravid article on age effects in SLA

 

   5       Jan 31   Sprouse article on magnitude estimation

 

   6       Feb 7     Emily Morgan will discuss her satiation project

 

   7       Feb 14   Casasanto, Hofmeister & Sag article on additivity

 

   9       Feb 28   Sprouse, Wagers & Philips article on working memory and islands

 

  10      Mar 7     Sprouse & Almeida article on linguistic methodology

 

All meetings are at 10:00am.

Winter Quarter lab meetings

Lab meetings this quarter will take place on Mondays at 10am. Our first reading for discussion will be:

Heestand, Dustin, Ming Xiang, and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Resumption still does not rescue islands. Linguistic Inquiry.

Upcoming conference presentations

Here are some conference presentations by lab members that will occur in the near future:

LSA Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh), January:
Boyoung Kim: Long-distance Wh-movement in L2 English: An experimental study of gradience in acceptability

Berkeley Linguistics Society, February:
Bethany Keffala: Resumption in English: Relative Acceptability Creates an Illusion of ‘Saving’

Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (Seattle), March:
Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall: Age-related Effects on Constraints on Wh-movement
 
18th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, March:
Grant Goodall (keynote address): What is Experimental Syntax Good for?

Meetings for rest of Fall Quarter

We will have two more meetings this quarter (Tuesdays at 10 in the lab):

Nov. 23: Grant Goodall will talk about sub-extraction from subjects and fronted wh-phrases.

Nov. 30: Bethany Keffala will talk about resumptive pronouns in English.

Fukuda, Michel, Beecher & Goodall (2010) on-line

The presentation by Shin Fukuda, Dan Michel, Henry Beecher and Grant Goodall at last January's LSA ("Comparing Three Methods for Sentence Judgment Experiments") is available at http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~goodall/lsa2010.pdf

Fall conference season

Here are some of the lab-related projects presented at conferences this fall:

Isolation of Independent Processing Factors in Negative Island Contexts
Simone Gieselman, Robert Kluender, Ivano Caponigro  

NELS 41 at Penn

Subject-verb inversion and verb finiteness are independent in Spanish

Grant Goodall with John Grinstead and Mariana Vega-Mendoza of Ohio State

Boston University Conference on Language Development

and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at Indiana University

L2 wh-movement: that-trace and island effects

Boyoung Kim

WECOL at CSU Fresno

Processing factor in negative island contexts

Simone Gieselman, Robert Kluender, Ivano Caponigro

WECOL at CSU Fresno

Upcoming talks

Here is what we have on tap for the next several weeks (Tuesdays at 10:00):

Oct. 26: Grant Goodall on work he has been doing with John Grinstead and Mariana Vega-Mendoza on wh-questions in child Spanish.

Nov. 2: Boyoung Kim will do a practice version of her WECOL talk.

Nov. 9: Kate Davidson on using experimental syntax techniques for getting pragmatic judgments.

Nov. 16: Discussion of "The need for quantitative methods in syntax and semantics research" by Edward Gibson & Evelina Fedorenko.

Nov. 23: open

Nov. 30: Bethany Keffala on resumptive pronouns.