Maho presents at CAMP 2021!

Maho is presenting the following paper at this year's California Meeting on Psycholinguistics:

Maho Takahashi and Grant Goodall. “Gap-filler dependencies are sensitive to islands: The case of Japanese relative clauses.”

For the full program, see https://sites.google.com/view/camp-2021/home

No spring lab meetings

 Grant will be on sabbatical for Spring Quarter, so we will resume lab meetings in Fall!

3 lab presentations at this year's CUNY conference!

The lab is being well represented at this year's CUNY conference, with these presentations:

• Alex Rodríguez:  Do islands affect only filler-gap dependencies? Evidence from Spanish
• Boyoung Kim & Grant Goodall: The COMP-trace effect and sentence planning: Evidence from L2
• Maho Takahashi: Gap-filler dependencies are sensitive to islands: The case of Japanese relative clauses

You can find the full schedule at https://www.cuny2021.io/schedule/

Winter 2021 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be Tuesdays, 9:00-10:20. Since we spent much of the last two quarters presenting our own work, we'll spend at least the first part of this quarter getting caught up on our reading!

January 12

Discussion of: Pañeda, C., Lago, S., Vares, E., Veríssimo, J., & Felser, C. (2020). Island effects in Spanish comprehension. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 21. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1058

January 19

Discussion of: Sprouse, J, and S. Villata (in press). Island effects. In G. Goodall (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge University Press.

January 26

Discussion of: Pham, C., Covey, L., Gabriele, A., Aldosari, S., & Fiorentino, R. (2020). Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1).  http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1199

February 2

Discussion of: Chung, Sandra and Matthew Wagers (2020). On the universality of intrusive resumption. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://people.ucsc.edu/~mwagers/ChungWagers2020.ChamorroPalauanRPs.pdf

February 9

Part two of a discussion of the Chung & Wagers article on resumptive pronouns.

February 16

Discussion of Sedarous, Y and Namboodiripad, S. (2020). Using audio stimuli in acceptability judgment experiments. Language and Linguistics Compass 14:e12377. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12377

February 23

Three practice talks for the upcoming CUNY conference: Alex, Maho, and Grant (w/ Boyoung Kim). See the full conference schedule at  https://www.cuny2021.io/schedule/ 

   Alex: "Do islands affect only filler-gap dependencies? Evidence from Spanish"

    Maho: "Gap-filler dependencies are sensitive to islands: The case of Japanese relative clauses"

    Grant + Boyoung: "The COMP-trace effect and sentence planning: Evidence from L2"

March 2

Discussion of two abstracts from CUNY conference:

Rebecca Tollan & Bilge Palaz- The dual nature of subjecthood: Unifying subject islands and that-trace effects: https://www.cuny2021.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CUNY_2021_abstract_67.pdf 

Stephanie Rich & Matt Wagers- Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination: https://www.cuny2021.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CUNY_2021_abstract_361.pdf

 March 9

 Further discussion of papers from CUNY conference.

Grant will be on sabbatical in Spring, so we'll start up again in Fall Quarter!

Duk-Ho goes to NELS!

Duk-Ho Jung presented his recent work on sprouting at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), one of the most prestigious venues for work in theoretical linguistics. The paper is entitled "There is no wh-movement in sprouting" and you can see the abstract here

Fall 2020 lab meetings

October 12

Coffee break! An informal meeting to plan out upcoming meetings, talk about the quarter in general, make sure everybody knows each other, etc.

October 16

Happy hour! An afternoon meeting to continue discussions from the 12th.

October 23

Sihun will give us a preview of the experiment he is currently designing that explores the possible role of focus prosody in ameliorating COMP-trace violations. 

October 30

Duk-Ho will give us a preview of his upcoming NELS talk entitled "There is no wh-movement in sprouting."

November 6

Maho will walk us through a pair of experiments she did this summer on relative clauses in Japanese, one involving relativization out of relative clauses and the other involving binding into relative clauses. 

November 20

Discussion of: Marty, P., Chemla, E., & Sprouse, J. (2020). The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1). https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/10.5334/gjgl.980/

December 4

Josh will present some of his recent work, where he uses acceptability and reading time data to explore potential differences between event nominals like running and event nominals like run (as in some running vs. a run).  

Spring '20 lab meetings

 April 7

Discussion of the Tabor, Villata and Sprouse presentation at CUNY on "A theory of island semi-accessibility: the case of the Strong/Weak distinction". This was the very first presentation at the conference, and you can find the video and the abstract at https://blogs.umass.edu/cuny2020/cuny-2020-umass-amherst/program/ (this talk starts at around minute 24 on the video). You can find just the slides at https://osf.io/vzt3g/?pid=ac4th.

April 14

Grant will give an overview of COMP-trace phenomenon (and synthesis from 225 course last quarter).

April 21

Three posters from the CUNY conference on COMP-trace:

"What does that tell us about sentence production?"  Shota Momma and Michael Wilson https://osf.io/hrwvd/

"Subject gaps are not inherently worse than object gaps in islands: Experimental evidence unifying that-trace effects and subject-object gap asymmetries in islands"  Adam Morgan https://osf.io/ek8sw/

"Processing COMP-trace violations in German: implications for syntax" Ankelien Schippers, Margreet Vogelzang & Esther Ruigendijk https://osf.io/gu56m/

April 28

Duk-Ho will tell us about his recent experiment on the island sensitivity of sprouting (which he was originally going to present at CLS, scheduled for next weekend).

May 5

Alex will present the results (a world-premier unveiling!) of his recent experiment on Clitic Left-Dislocation in Spanish.

May 12

Dayoung will present the results of her very latest experiment (just finished!) on complexity effects in A- and A'-dependencies.

May 19

Maho will give us an overview of her upcoming experiment on the island status of relative clauses in Japanese.

May 26

We will discuss the approach to islands that Lisa Pearl sketched in her colloquium last week. Both the slides and a video presentation are available (see links below), but in the slides here are the relevant parts (by slide #):

    28-49 Overview of island phenomena (you might be able to skip this part)

    50-83 An analysis of how island behavior is acquired (from Pearl and Sprouse 2013: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10489223.2012.738742)

    84-129 The current study

Links to slides and video:

slides: https://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/presentations/Pearl2020_UCSD.pdf

intro: https://youtu.be/sEj1eQJWp_o

part 1: https://youtu.be/QvbBFiXb9C0

part 2: https://youtu.be/RbKo0beDCVg

part 3: https://youtu.be/AcO6nol-BY0 

part 4: https://youtu.be/AK7ykVIGJv8

part 5: https://youtu.be/YyavkXbDX04

part 6: https://youtu.be/_sRsJBMZdaY

part 7: https://youtu.be/THT9Tj0-aoI

part 8: https://youtu.be/DX2tzTFn644

takeaway: https://youtu.be/wcONv4xsHOo

June 2

Grant will present an overview of recent approaches to subject islands (follow-up to 225 course last quarter). 

June 19

Coffee break to finish out the year!