Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Maria Polinsky is at a Workshop on Georgian and South Caucasian languages, which she helped to organize, giving the introductory lecture, and leading a tutorial on experimental work.
Zoe Schlueter presents joint work with Ellen Lau and Shota Momma *16 at the Second Language Research Form, in "Grammatical knowledge without native-like online processing routines: Subject-verb agreement in Chinese L2 learners of English."
Jeffrey Lidz explains “The Nature and Origins of Principle C,” at a workshop organized by 2007 Maryland alums Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse.
Maria Polinsky is speaking at a Workshop on Heritage Language Acquisition sponsored by the Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition research group within the Department of Linguistics at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway.
Omer Preminger is at Stanford to present "What the PCC tells us about 'abstract' agreement, head movement, and locality" at a workshop on head movement.
Say hello to Iria de dios Flores in 1413H, and Zuzanna Fuchs in 3416A, two new visitors to our department this semester.
Chia-Hsuan Liao has a paper in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, "Direction matters: Event-related brain potentials reflect extra processing costs in switching from the dominant to the less dominant language".
Zoe Schlueter is in Bilbao at the 16th AMLaP, presenting "The impact of coordination on agreement processing: Abstract and surface cues to plurality", with co-authors Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams.
A warm greeting to Aaron, Anouk, Mina, Rodrigo, Sigwan, and Tyler, now only 5 years from being Maryland Linguistics alumni!
Theodore Levin is at the National University of Singapore speaking "On the complementarity of case/agreement and (pseudo) noun incorporation," at the invitation of the Department of English Language & Literature.