Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Thank you to Barbara Partee, for three fascinating days of lectures and meetings, generously supported by Dave Baggett.
At this year's BUCLD: Kaitlyn Harrigan, Megan Sutton, Mike Fetters, Naho Orita, Akira Omaki, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Jeffrey Lidz and Valentine Hacquard.
November 2-3 Brad Larson presents "Psycholinguistic evidence for non-syntactic dependencies in coordinated-wh questions", joint work with Dave Kush and Shevaun Lewis at the Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Sharing in Nantes, France.
Congratulations to Ellen Lau, whose "Dissociating N400 effects of prediction from association in single word contexts" has been accepted to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The paper was co-authored with Phil Holcomb and Gina Kuperberg of Tufts Uni
Warm congratulations to Tara Mease, who on October 22 gave birth to a happy and healthy baby boy, Xander.
Naomi Feldman is giving colloquium talk at the University of Delaware, "The role of the developing lexicon in constraining statistical learning".
Paul Pietroski teaching a mini-course on his work, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Wing Yee Chow is at the Neurobiology of Language Conference in San Sebastian, Spain, to present "When having more time doesn't help: Predictions are necessary for "smart" N400s."
UMD successfully hosts the sixth annual Northeast Computational Phonology workshop (NECPhon 6).
Naho Orita presents "Simulation of Pronoun Acquisition" joint work with Naomi Feldman and Jeffrey Lidz at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.