Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Please greet Romy Lassota and Lyn Tieu who are visiting UMD Linguistics this semester.
"A single stage approach to learning phonological categories: Insights from Inuktitut', by Brian Dillon, Ewan Dunbar and Bill Idsardi, is to appear in <i>Cognitive Science</i>.
Philip Resnik appeared on WAMU's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" (transcript) to discuss automatic sentiment analysis and social media.
Brad Larson is presenting "WYSIWYG RNR" at the CUNY Syntax Supper.
Yakov Kronrod, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, and Jeff Lidz went to Northwood High School in Silver Spring to speak with 100 AP Psychology students about linguistic structure and its connection to language acquisition and other areas of cognition.
Kenshi Funakoshi's "On Headless XP-Movement/Ellipsis'' is to appear in "Linguistic Inquiry".
Congratulations to Jeff Lidz and Csilla Katjar, on issue 19(1) of Language Acquisition, the first with Jeff as Editor-in-Chief and Csilla as Managing Editor.
Annie Gagliardi, Bradley Larson, Dave Kush, and Alexis Wellwood – with Naomi Feldman, Colin Phillips, Jeffrey Lidz, Paul Pietroski and Justin Halberda from Johns Hopkins – are presenting at the LSA.
Juan Uriagereka, Professor in Linguistics and Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, has recently published a new book, <i>Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program</i>.
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."