Mayfest 2025
Constraints on meaning.
Fresh in Cognitive Science, "Modeling Statistical Insensitivity: Sources of Suboptimal Behavior," from alumna Annie Gagliardi, with Naomi Feldman and Jeffrey Lidz.
Maria Polinsky's "Investigating Endangered Language Contact for Awakateko and K'iche', two Mayan languages" has won support from the NSF.
Philip Resnik has received both a Bloomberg Research Grant and for a UMB-UMCP seed grant.
Now out, "Establishing new mappings between familiar phones: Neural and behavioral evidence for early automatic processing of nonnative contrasts" by alumna Shannon Barrios and co-authors Anna Namyst, Ellen Lau, Naomi Feldman, and Bill Isardi.
Rachel Dudley is 2016 recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.
Maria Polinsky leads five faculty and four presenters at the Ninth Heritage Language Research Institute in Seattle.
Ellen Lau and her family welcome a beautiful new boy, Antonio John Alvares de Azevedo Lau.
Jeffrey Lidz and Alexander Williams have won 3 years of NSF support for "Transitivity of Sentences and Scenes in Early Language Development."
Allyson and Philip join Marine and Hal, with CS students He He and Yogarshi Vyas, at the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
Naomi Feldman talks about Testing low-level speech features using speech corpora at Indiana's Corpus Linguistics Fest 2016.