Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
At the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Phoebe Gaston argues that “Syntactic category facilitates rather than inhibits lexical competition” in a poster with co-authors Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips.
Omer Preminger delivers "The Anaphor Agreement Effect: Further evidence against anaphora-as-agreement" at LinG1, the first edition of a new annual workshop hosted by Linguistics in Göttingen at the Georg-August University.
Georgian press report on the 2nd South Caucasian Chalk Circle conference, co-organized by Maria Polinsky and supported in part by the Maryland Language Science Center.
Ellen presents "The search for neural indices of syntactic structure" at Stony Brook's Linguistics colloquium.
Thomas Schatz is at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in Philadelphia, with a poster on joint work with Naomi Feldman: "Neural network vs. HMM speech recognition systems as models of human cross-linguistic phonetic perception."
Allyson Ettinger is now Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute, "a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute, dedicated to basic research and graduate education in computer science."
Daniel Goodhue discusses "High negation questions and epistemic bias" at the 23rd annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference, held this year at the the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
The South Caucasian Chalk Circle hosts its second annual Summer School in linguistics, at Ilia State University in Tblisi, codirected by Maria Polinsky and Léa Nash.
Say Hello to Thomas Schatz, our second new postdoc.
A warm greeting to Cassidy Henry from UCLA, Masato Nakamura from the University of Tokyo, and Craig Thorburn from MIT, our newest class of PhD students, now a mere half decade from alumni status!