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Ellen in San Diego

May 19, 2019 Linguistics

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

Suyoung at CLS 55

May 18, 2019 Linguistics

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 and Jonathan Simon win BBI seed grant

May 15, 2019 Linguistics

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 at NY Philosophy Workshop

May 09, 2019 Linguistics

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.

Schlueter, Parker & Lau on agreement attraction

May 07, 2019 Linguistics

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 at WSCLA

May 06, 2019 Linguistics

Rodrigo Ranero presents "Voice Mismatches in Kaqchikel (Mayan) Sluicing" at WSCLA 24, hosted here at UMD.

Paulina and Rodrigo with Bill in Norway at GLOW

May 01, 2019 Linguistics

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 and Chris Hammerly at USC workshop

April 29, 2019 Linguistics

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.

Zoe Ovans with Brian and Akira in JML

April 23, 2019 Linguistics

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.

Linguistics at UG Research Day

April 16, 2019 Linguistics

Undergraduate Research Day features posters by Linguistics undergraduates Mariam Aiyad, Abigail Kameny, Divya Lahori, Lillianna Righter, and William Simpson.