Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Phoebe Gaston gives the colloquium talk at Cornell Linguistics, on “The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition.'
This week in London, York and Bristol, Ellen Lau presents three talks on the neuroscience of syntactic and semantic working memory representations.
Maria Polinsky is in Oslo for "MultiGender: A multilingual approach to grammatical gender," a research project led by Marit Westergaard and UMD alum Terje Lohndal.
Welcome faculty affiliate David Lebeaux, who will visit us occasionally, using the Emeritus Office.
DC's Cosmos Club will support Rodrigo Ranero's "The syntax of silence in Santiago Tz'utujiil, and endangered Mayan language," a project Rodrigo will undertake this summer, furthering his work on ellipsis.
A report on Alayo Tripp's postdoctoral research with Ben Munson, on "Race, ethnicity, and speech intelligibility in normal hearing and hearing impairment."
Now in Cognition, "Syntactic category constrains lexical competition in speaking" by alum Shota Momma with former RA Julia Buffinton and faculty mentors Colin Phillips and Bob Slevc from Psychology.
Maša Bešlin returns from two weeks of immersive Kaqchikel at the Guatemala Field Station, after giving a talk at the Novi Sad Linguistic Colloquium "On the categorial status of the passive participle in Serbo-Croatian."
Simon Chervenak, a summer intern with Tyler Knowlton, has been awarded "Best Paper in Behavioral Sciences" by the Washington Academy of Science's Blair Magnet School STEM Fair.
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas learns about "Narcissistic allomorphy in Santiago Tz'utujil" from Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, as well as former Baggett, Chris Baron.