Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Kaitlyn Harrigan *15 is to be Lecturer of Psycholinguistics in the Department of Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
Juliana Gerard is now Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Communication at Ulster University, where she will work with Jacopo Romoli.
Allyson Ettinger's "Probing for semantic evidence of composition by means of simple classification tasks," with Philip Resnik and Ahmed Elgohary, has been judged best paper at the Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP.
Valentine Hacquard and NYU's Ailis Cournane have won two years of NSF support for "Acquiring the Language of Possibility: Consequences for language variation and change.:
Three new articles from Maria Polinsky: "Structure vs. use in heritage language," "Bilingual children and adult heritage speakers," and "Looking ahead."
Rachel Dudley, with advisors Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, has won NSF DDRI support for "The role of input in the acquisition of factivity," research that will go towards Rachel's dissertation.
New from Maria Polinsky, "Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features."
Alexander, Allyson, Caitlin Richter, Colin, Kasia, Naomi and Philip have work at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, in Philadelphia
Check out the Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, edited by Jeffrey Lidz, William Snyder (UConn) and Joe Pater (UMass), with contributions from several current faculty and recent alumni.
Maxime Papillon is in Lagodekhi, Georgia, teaching phonological theory at the Eastern Generative Grammar summer school.