Lab presence at LSA 2014 in Minneapolis

This year's LSA features presentations by lab members Boyoung Kim, Dan Michel, Emily Morgan and Grant Goodall.

Dan Michel awaiting the masses at the poster session.

Emily Morgan addresses the big questions in her talk at LSA.

The lab goes to Boston (twice!)

Boyoung Kim and Grant Goodall presented two papers in Boston this Fall quarter:

"An Experimental Investigation of Island Effects in Korean"
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, MIT

"Islands and Non-Islands in Heritage Korean"
Boston University Conference on Language Development

Boyoung Kim before her talk at BUCLD.

Fall '13 Lab Meetings

Our meetings this quarter are on Fridays at 1:30.

October 4
Boyoung Kim: Practice talk for Japanese/Korean Linguistics conference at MIT
"An Experimental Investigation of Island Effects in Korean"

October 11

Lewis, S. & Phillips, C. (to appear). Aligning grammatical theories and language processing models. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.   PDF

October 25
Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F., & Young, C. R. (2008). The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors. Cognition, 106(1), 87–129. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.015   Link

November 15
Amanda Ritchart: Discussion of possible prosodic factors influencing the that-trace effect.

November 22
Alex Stiller-Shulman: Discussion of word order in wh-questions in Spanish.

December 6
Dan Michel: Practice presentation for LSA meeting in Minneapolis
"Native speakers identify and associate fillers and gaps in ‘ungrammatical’ wh-islands: ERP evidence"

December 12 (Thursday)
Emily Morgan: Practic presentation for LSA meeting in Minneapolis
"Processing difficulty doesn’t always lower acceptability: the case of lexical frequency"

Grant on sabbatical in Spring 2013

Grant Goodall is on sabbatical during Spring 2013. Regular lab meetings will resume in September!

Bethany Keffala and Grant Goodall presented a paper in April at the Linguistic Evidence conference at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Scenes from the Workshop on Understanding Acceptability Judgments at the University of Potsdam, Sept. 2013, where Grant Goodall was an invited speaker:

Winter quarter lab meetings

Lab meetings this quarter are Fridays, 12:30 - 1:30.  Here is the tentative list of topics (this will be updated as the quarter proceeds):

Week 2   Jan 18

Orfitelli, R., & Polinsky, M. When performance masquerades as comprehension: Assessing grammaticality in non-L1 populations. (manuscript)
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mpolinsky/files/for_collegues__assessing_grammaticality_in_non-l1_populations-4.pdf

Week 4   Feb 1

Boyoung on testing for island effects in Korean

Week 5   Feb 8 

Bermel, Neil and Knittl, Luděk (2012).  Corpus frequency and acceptability judgments: A study of morphosyntactic variants in Czech. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 241–275         

https://clearing.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.220190!/file/Bermel-Knittl_Frequency-and-Acceptability.pdf

Week 6  Feb 15 

Granena, G., & Long, M. H. (2012). Age of onset, length of residence, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment in three linguistic domains. Second Language Research
http://slr.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/04/0267658312461497.full.pdf

Week 7  Feb 22
Grant: Preview of CUNY conference poster Week 8  Mar 1
Open House

Week 9  Mar 8
Bethany and Grant: Preview of Linguistic Evidence conference talk

Week 10  Mar 15
Possible faculty meeting (lab meeting may need to be cancelled)

 
 

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.