Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Now out, "'Syntactic perturbation' during production activates the right IFG, but not Broca’s area or the ATL" by William Matchin and Greg Hickok.
Say hello to Kouki Miyazawa, a postdoc visiting from Reiko Mazuka's lab at RIKEN in Japan, working on infant acquisition of phonology.
Maria Polinsky presents "Parametrizing subject transparency", one of four invited talks at Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, at Mie University.
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.