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Omer, Paulina, Rodrigo and Chris win grant
May 23, 2019For "Whistling on Tiptoes: Investigating Rare Lexical Categories in Tz’utujil (Mayan)," The Jacobs Research Funds has awarded a grant to Omer Preminger, Paulina Lyskawa, Rodrigo Ranero and former Baggett Fellow Chris Baron.
Ellen and Valentine promoted!
May 23, 2019Ellen Lau has been promoted to Associate Professor, and Valentine Hacquard, to Full.
Hanna and Jackie to summer internships
May 22, 2019This summer Hanna Muller and Jackie Nelligan have internships at Amazon and Google.
Masha in Oslo
May 21, 2019Maria Polinsky discusses "Some Puzzles in Agreement and Concord," at "MultiGender: A multilingual approach to grammatical gender," research project led by Marit Westergaard and UMD alum Terje Lohndal.
Ellen in San Diego
May 19, 2019May 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, 2019The 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, 2019Ellen 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, 2019Valentine 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, 2019In 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, 2019Rodrigo Ranero presents "Voice Mismatches in Kaqchikel (Mayan) Sluicing" at WSCLA 24, hosted here at UMD.