UMD Linguists at Cogsci 2012

Work by Annie Gagliardi, Yakov Kronrod, Alexis Wellwood and Cybelle Smith is to be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

August 1-4 in Sapporo, Japan, Annie Gagliardi, Yakov Kronrod, Alexis Wellwood and Cybelle Smith will present the following papers at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: * Annie Gagliardi, Naomi Feldman and Jeffrey Lidz, "When suboptimal behavior is optimal and why: Modeling the acquisition of noun classes in Tsez." * Annie Gagliardi, Erin Bennett, Jeffrey Lidz and Naomi Feldman, "Children's inferences in generalizing novel nouns and adjectives." * Yakov Kronrod, Emily Coppess, and Naomi Feldman, "A unified model of categorical effects in consonant and vowel perception." * Alexis Wellwood, Darko Odic, Justin Halberda, and Jeffrey Lidz, "Choosing quantity over quality: Syntax guides interpretive preferences for novel superlatives." * Cybelle Smith and Michael C. Frank, "Zero anaphora and object reference in Japanese child-directed speech." (Awarded NSF travel grant and research fellowship to pursue a short-term project at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, Japan) Recent alumnus Akira Omaki will also be presenting a member abstract poster.