Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Those at the Conference of the German Linguistic Society will learn that Optional agreement in Santiago Tz'utujil is syntactic, thanks to a presentation of work by Theodore Levin, Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero.
Postdoc Ted Levin heads to the beautiful Northwest for a job at Facebook.
2017 alum Chris Heffner is to be Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo in Communication Disorders and Sciences, after a one year postdoc with the Acoustical Society of America.
Now in Language Cognition & Neuroscience from 2014 alum Sol Lago, "Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing: Evidence from the N400," joint work with former advisor Ellen Lau, lab manager Anna Namyst, and Potsdam colleague Lena Jäger.
In a special issue of TiCS honoring Lila Gleitman, Jeffrey Lidz offers "A Meditation" on learning, memory and syntactic bootstrapping.
Now in Neuropsychologia, An fMRI investigation of argument relations and the angular gyrus from Ellen Lau and her former postdoc William Matchin, with Chia-Hsuan Liao and Phoebe Gaston, titled "Same words, different structures."
Prosody and function words cue the acquisition of word meanings in 18-month-old infants, demonstrates past visitor Alex de Carvalho in a recent paper for Psych Science with Jeffrey Lidz, alum Angela Xiaoxue He, and Anne Christophe in Paris.
Now in Glossa, Omer Preminger shows us What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality. And what that is, is that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint.
The LSA's Annual Meeting has work by Suyoung, Tyler, and Phoebe, with faculty collaborators, as well as a report on gender bias in our field, by a large group of our students, led by Hanna and Phoebe.
The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.