Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
May 20 at the UC San Diego linguistics colloquium, Ellen Lau talks about "Neural measures of structured linguistic representations." Here's the abstract of Ellen's talk. After many years of research, we still know relatively little about how lingu
The Chicago Linguistic Society meets has a poster by Suyoung Bae with Hyosik Kim from Northwestern, "The Structural Ambiguity of Long Form Negation in Korean (Polarity Particle Answers to Negative Questions)."
Ellen Lau is awarded a seed grant from UMD's Brain and Behavior Initative to study the "Neural representations of continuous speech and linguistic context in native and non-native listeners."
Valentine Hacquard talks about "Possibilities and Necessities in Acquisition" at the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, a weekly meeting group that hosts invited speakers.
In the new Frontiers, we learn that Error-Driven Retrieval in Agreement Attraction Rarely Leads to Misinterpretation, from alumni Zoe Schlueter *17 and Dan Parker *14, along with Zoe's former advisor, Ellen Lau.
Rodrigo Ranero presents "Voice Mismatches in Kaqchikel (Mayan) Sluicing" at WSCLA 24, hosted here at UMD.
GLOW 42 in Oslo has "A Mayan Diagnostic for the Unergative vs. Unaccusative Distinction" from Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, as well "Phonological learning: auditory, visual, computational and animal perspectives," an invited talk by Bill Idsardi.
Omer Preminger discusses "The modular locus of the Person Case Constraint" at Person and Perspective, a workshop at USC in honor of María Luisa Zubizaretta.
Now in the Journal of Memory and Language, "Rebels without a clause: Processing reflexives in fronted wh-predicates, from past and present Terps Akira Omaki, Zoe Ovans and Brian Dillon, as well as Harvard student Anthony Yacovone.
Undergraduate Research Day features posters by Linguistics undergraduates Mariam Aiyad, Abigail Kameny, Divya Lahori, Lillianna Righter, and William Simpson.