Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Ted Levin presents "M-merger as relabeling: A new approach to head movement and noun-incorporation," joint work with Omer Preminger, as a poster at Generative Linguistics of the Old World in Leiden, South Holland.
Maria Polinsky is teaching at a four-day course, "From Hypothesis to Experiment," on scientific methods in linguistics, at the University of Oslo Center for Multilingualism across the Lifespan.
Now in Language Learning & Development, "'Think' pragmatically: Children's interpretation of belief reports, from 2013 alum Shevaun Lewis, with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.
Maria Polinsky is at Georgetown as a plenary speaker for Georgetown University Round Table, which this year focuses on "Variable Properties: Their nature and acquisition."
Howard Lasnik is speaking and teaching at Fluminense Federal University in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Now in Language Learning and Development from 2015 alum Angela He with Jeffrey Lidz, "Verb learning in 14- and 18-month-old English-learning infants."
Allyson Ettinger is at the Communication Science Laboratory of Tohoku University, meeting with students and giving two invited talks, one to their NLP group and one to their psycholinguistics group.
Ellen Lau is at the Graduate Linguistics Expo at Michigan State, presenting 'Linguistic structure forwards and backwards: Prediction and memory representation,' one of two invited talks at this year's GLEAMS meeting.
Several students are in Boston for the AAAS Family Science Days, running the Language Science for Everyone booth, organized by Laura Wagner from the Ohio State University.
Many students and faculty are in D.C. for Language Advocacy Day, an annual event organized by the Joint National Committee on Language.