Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Maria Polinsky is at BLS42 presenting "Niuean subject/object symmetry," joint work with Nick Longenbaugh.
Say hello to Saskia, a PhD student from Uni. Tübingen with advisor Sigrid Beck.
Colin Phillips reconciles surface differences between comprehension and production in "Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language," reporting work with Shota Momma, Ellen Lau, Wing-Yee Chow, Bob Slevc and many others.
Jeff explains "How Syntax Solves Children’s Attitude Problems", reporting work with Valentine and Rachel Dudley.
Say hello to Amsterdam PhD student Caitlin Meyer, who works on the acquisition of numerals and ordinals, with advisors Fred Weerman, Sjef Barbiers and Johan Rooryck.
Visiting us this semester from the Guangdong University of Technology is Wáng Hé-yù, a 2014 PhD from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
New research from Jeff Lidz (LING) and colleagues with Korean children shows that, even when children are fully immersed in a language, they acquire linguistic features that are missing from their environment.
Now in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, two articles by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer.
Now in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, "Endogenous sources of variation in language acquisition" by Jeff, Chung-hye Han, and Julien Musolino.
Maria Polinsky presents "The processing of long-distance dependencies in Niuean" at Experimental Approaches to Arabic and Other Understudied Languages, joint work with MIT student Nick Longenbaugh.