Winter 2022 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be held Fridays 3:00-4:30.

January 14

Maho will give us an update on her upcoming experiment on double-gap relative clauses in Japanese.

January 21

Duk-Ho will give us a progress report on the experiment that he is developing to explore argument vs. adjunct extraction.

January 28

Alex will walk us through his about-to-be-run experiment on wh-extraction and Clitic Left-Dislocation in Spanish.

February 4

Discussion of: Yang, C., & Montrul, S. (2017). Learning datives: The Tolerance Principle in monolingual and bilingual acquisition. Second Language Research, 33(1), 119-144.

February 11

Discussion of: Newmeyer, F. J. (2016). Nonsyntactic explanations of island constraints. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2, 187-210.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040707

February 18 + 25

Discussion of: van Urk, C. (2020). Successive Cyclicity and the Syntax of Long-Distance Dependencies. Annual Review of Linguistics Vol. 6:111-130 

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012318

March 4

Discussion of: Cokal D, Sturt P (2022) The real-time status of strong and weak islands. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263879. 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263879

March 11

Progress reports from Alex, Duk-Ho, and Maho on the experiments that they are currently preparing and/or running.

Fall 2021 lab meetings

Our meetings this quarter will be held Fridays 12 - 1. 

October 8 + 15

Discussion of: Liu, Y. et al. (2021). A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English.  Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104902

October 22 + 29

Discussion of: Hirayama, H., (2018) “Revisiting a null pronominal account for parasitic gaps in Japanese”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1), p.117. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.522

November 5

Discussion of: Lu, J., Thompson, C. K., & Yoshida, M. (2020). Chinese wh-in-situ and islands: A formal judgment study. Linguistic Inquiry, 51(3), 611-623.

November 12 + 19

Discussion of: Abeillé, A., Hemforth, B., Winckel, E., & Gibson, E. (2020). Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction. Cognition, 204, 104293.

November 28

Continuation of previous article and discussion of: Kush, D. & Sant, C. & Strætkvern, S. B., (2021) “Learning Island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- and youth-directed text in Norwegian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5774

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