Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Congrats to Rachel Dudley *17, who starts a 2-year research postdoc at the Central European University, in its Department of Cognitive Science and Cognitive Development Center at the Hungarian capital of Budapest. With Ágnes Kovács and Ernő Téglás, and su
Listen to Rodrigo Ranero discuss linguistics, Mayan languages, and emigration from Guatemala on ConCriterio, a weekly radio program.
Leslie Li, a Rochester undergrad and Summer visitor at UMD, will be presenting her joint work with Thomas Schatz and Naomi Feldman at the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology.
Anton Malko *18 takes a postdoctoral position with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency.
The Linguistic Association of Great Britain has recognized Justin Malčić's "The Asymmetry and Antisymmetry of Syntax" as one of this year's three Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertations.
Craig Thorburn and Thomas Schatz present a poster on joint work with Naomi Feldman, "A quantitative model of the language familiarity effect in infancy" at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
Learn about Filler-gap dependency comprehension at 15 months from Laurel Perkins and Jeffrey Lidz in the new issue of Language Acquisition.
Chia-Hsuan Liao's dissertation work will be supported by The William Orr Dingwall Foundation, which annually honors two doctoral candidates who are "specializing in the cognitive, clinical, and neural foundations of language."
In "The agreement theta generalization," Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger defend the new generalization that something which assigns a DP a thematic-role is never in a higher clause than a head which agrees with it.
Greetings to Shohini Bhattasali and Zara Harmon, postdoctoral fellows with Philip Resnik and Naomi Feldman.