Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Visiting us this semester from the Guangdong University of Technology is Wáng Hé-yù, a 2014 PhD from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
New research from Jeff Lidz (LING) and colleagues with Korean children shows that, even when children are fully immersed in a language, they acquire linguistic features that are missing from their environment.
Now in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, two articles by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer.
Now in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, "Endogenous sources of variation in language acquisition" by Jeff, Chung-hye Han, and Julien Musolino.
Maria Polinsky presents "The processing of long-distance dependencies in Niuean" at Experimental Approaches to Arabic and Other Understudied Languages, joint work with MIT student Nick Longenbaugh.
Now in Language Learning & Development from Alexis *14, Annie *12 and Jeff, "Syntactic and Lexical Inference in the Acquisition of Novel Superlatives."
Rachels Dudley and Adler are at Trends in Experimental Pragmatics presenting "Using corpus methods can begin to address how children acquire presupposition triggers" and “The time course of verbal irony comprehension and context integration.”
Graduating LING major Tim Dawson becomes a Research Specialist with John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman at UPenn's Department of Psychology in Philadelphia.
This week along the Oder in Wrocław, two meetings led by Colin Phillips at the Center for Experimental Research on Natural Language.
Now in Frontiers, an article on the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence, from Maria Polinsky and collaborators Gregory Scontras and Zuzanna Fuchs.