Jon Sprouse awarded Best Paper in Language

The LSA's Best Paper in <i>Language</i> 2011 Award goes to Jon Sprouse *07 for "A test of the cognitive assumptions of magnitude estimation: Commutativity does not hold for acceptability judgments."

The LSA's Best Paper in Language 2011 Award goes to Jon Sprouse, a Maryland Linguistics alumnus, for his "A test of the cognitive assumptions of magnitude estimation: Commutativity does not hold for acceptability judgments", in Language 87(2). The award is given for the best paper published in the journal in any given calendar year. This year Jon shares the award with Thomas Weskott and Gisbert Fanselow, for their "On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability".