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Chris Heffner to professorship at Buffalo
February 22, 20192017 alum Chris Heffner is to be Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo in Communication Disorders and Sciences, after a one year postdoc with the Acoustical Society of America.
Lago et al. on pronoun resolution and N400s
February 18, 2019Now in Language Cognition & Neuroscience from 2014 alum Sol Lago, "Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing: Evidence from the N400," joint work with former advisor Ellen Lau, lab manager Anna Namyst, and Potsdam colleague Lena Jäger.
Jeff meditates on memory in acquisition
February 14, 2019In a special issue of TiCS honoring Lila Gleitman, Jeffrey Lidz offers "A Meditation" on learning, memory and syntactic bootstrapping.
Matchin, Liao, Gaston and Lau on V/N in the AG
February 12, 2019Now in Neuropsychologia, An fMRI investigation of argument relations and the angular gyrus from Ellen Lau and her former postdoc William Matchin, with Chia-Hsuan Liao and Phoebe Gaston, titled "Same words, different structures."
Bootstrapping into syntax
January 30, 2019Prosody and function words cue the acquisition of word meanings in 18-month-old infants, demonstrates past visitor Alex de Carvalho in a recent paper for Psych Science with Jeffrey Lidz, alum Angela Xiaoxue He, and Anne Christophe in Paris.
Omer in Glossa on PCC
January 24, 2019Now in Glossa, Omer Preminger shows us What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality. And what that is, is that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint.
LSA in Times Square
December 25, 2018The LSA's Annual Meeting has work by Suyoung, Tyler, and Phoebe, with faculty collaborators, as well as a report on gender bias in our field, by a large group of our students, led by Hanna and Phoebe.
Terps take Manhattan with SCiL
December 19, 2018The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.
Masha in Hong Kong
December 12, 2018The keynote address at the Symposium on Childhood Bilingualism and Heritage Language Acquisition in Hong Kong is by Maria Polinsky, who will give an overview of Heritage Languages and Heritage Linguistics: Present and Future.
Nick in JEAL on control and restructuring
December 04, 2018Nick Huang's "Control complements in Mandarin Chinese" is now out in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.