Maryland at BUCLD 51

Commonwealth Ave crawling with Terrapins.

It is BUCLD Season again, and waves of Terrapins have crashed upon Kenmore!

Elizabeth gives a talk on work done with Oanu Lungu (Nantes), Anouk Dieuleveut *21 (LaPsyDE Paris), Ailís Cournane (NYU) and Valentine. Cassandra has a poster; Allison has a poster on work with Jeff; and Lena has one with her undergraduate mentor at Penn, Charles Yang. Joining the current LING grads from outside Marie Mount Hall are Sophie Domanski, Rochelle Newman and Yi Ting Huang from HESP; Rachel Romeo from HDQM; Bob Slevc from Psychology; and Mine Müezzinoğlu from NACS.  

Forming the largest contingent are Terps of older vintage: BA alums Alex Emmert '26 (PhD student, UC San Diego), Sterling Goicoechea Muellenix '25, Premvanti Patel '23 (Lab Manager, Yale Child Development Lab), Lillianna Righter '20 (RA, Macwhinney Lab, Carnegie Mellon), and Emma Nguyen '13 (Assistant Professor, Newcastle); Baggett alums Nathalie Fernandez Echeverri (PhD student, UC Berkeley) and Elika Bergelson (Associate Professor, Harvard); PhD alums Jack Ying *25 (postdoc, CUHK), Imane Bou-Saboun '25 (postdoc, Yale), Laurel Perkins *19 (Associate Professor, UCLA), Kasia Hitczenko *19 (Assistant Professor, Delware), Rachel Dudley *17 (Assistant Professor, UCSD), Julie Gerard *16 (Lecturer, Ulster), Kate Harrigan *15 (Assistant Professor, William and Mary), Brian Dillon *11 (Professor, UMass), Lisa Pearl *07 (Professor, Irvine), Rob Fiorentino *06 (Professor, Kansas); postdoc Meg Cychosz (Stanford); and visitors Elaine Grolla (Associate Professor, Sao Paolo) and Alex de Carvalo (Paris). 

The program of Terpresentations is below, and the full program is here.

Current Linguistics PhD students

Current Marylanders from other departments

Linguistics PhD Alums

• Yuanfan Ying, Xiaolu Yang, Yanting Li, and Stella Christie / Learning to encode (in)definiteness in a language without articles
• Imane Bou-Saboun and Athulya Aravind / Beyond the agreement 'rich'/agreement 'poor' binary: Acquiring a language with selective agreement suppression
• Siena Christensen, Lisa Pearl, Frankie Boren, Jacob Davalos, and Emma Nguyen / Specifying the Passive target: what meta-analytic latent-trait modeling reveals about children's developing knowledge of English Passives
• Kasia Hitczenko, Elika Bergelson, Marisa Casillas, Heidi Colleran, Meg Cychosz, Pauline Grosjean, Lisa Hamrick, Bridgette Kelleher, Camila Scaff, Amanda Seidl, Sarah Walker, and Alejandrina Cristia / Both speech input and vocalization practice predict higher canonical babbling in children cross-culturally
• Alison Gabriele, José Alemán-Bañón, Münir Ozturhan, Andrew P. Collins, Xiao Yang, Braden Swaim, Manuel Carreiras, Simona Mancini, Lesa Hoffman, and Robert Fiorentino / Examining the role of individual differences and task effects in the processing of referential ambiguity in the L1 and L2: Evidence from ERPs
• Xuan Wang, Alison Gabriele, and Robert Fiorentino / An ERP investigation of sensitivity to binding constraints in a second language: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking learners of English
• Morgan Macleod, Balthazar Lauzon, Raffaella Folli, Heidi Harley, and Juliana Gerard / Manual vs automated video coding using iCatcher+: a replication study with the Central Fixation Paradigm
• Juliana Gerard, Adina Camelia Bleotu, and Dana McDaniel / Asymmetries Between Finite and Non-finite Adjuncts: Acquisition of pro in Romanian
• Megan Gotowski, Kaitlyn Harrigan, and Forrest Davis / Bootstrapping at the Interface: Learning from Multiple Cues
• Dingyi Pan and Rachel Dudley / Discourse status as a cue to the acquisition of the Mandarin belief verb yiwei
• Shalinee Maitra and Laurel Perkins / 2- to 3-year olds use tense/aspect morphology to feed verb learning inferences
• Jenna L. Croteau, Özge Bakay, Brian Dillon and Joonkoo Park / Evaluating the role of language in small exact number concepts

Linguistics undergrad alums

Baggett alums

Past visitors