Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
We are happy to welcome six new members to our graduate program: Juliana Gerard (UCLA), Yuki Ito (University of Tokyo), Jeffrey McMahan (U Michigan), Shota Momma (U Washington), Carolina Petersen (Universidade de São Paulo), and Alayo Tripp (Maryland and
We are happy to welcome two new Baggett Fellows, Rachel Dudley (NYU '11, Linguistics) and Erin Bennett (UCSD '11, Linguistics), as well as Cybelle Smith (Stanford '11, Linguistics), a new Research Assistant to Colin Phillips in the psycholinguistics lab.
A warm welcome to Masahiko Takahashi, our new postdoctoral fellow in syntax. Masa recently graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, with a dissertation focusing on Case in Japanese.
Ariane Rhone starts a postdoctoral position at the University of Iowa, split between the Department of Psychology and the Medical School.
Shayne Sloggett is beginning the PhD program in linguistics at UMass Amherst, after one year as a Research Assistant to Colin Phillips in the pycholinguistics lab.
Brad Larson's "A Dilemma with Accounts of Right Node Raising" is to appear in <i>Linguistic Inquiry</i>.
The July 15 issue of <i>Science</i> includes "Sentence and Word Complexity", by Jeffrey Heinz (Delaware) and Bill Idsardi.
Shiti Malhotra has accepted a lectureship in the Program in Linguistics at Northeastern University, for the coming academic year.
Alex Drummond is beginning a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University (England).
PHLING, the Philosophy & Linguistics reading group, will meet every Thursday this summer.