Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post
Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.
Colin Phillips reconciles surface differences between comprehension and production in "Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language," reporting work with Shota Momma, Ellen Lau, Wing-Yee Chow, Bob Slevc and many others.
Jeff explains "How Syntax Solves Children’s Attitude Problems", reporting work with Valentine and Rachel Dudley.
Say hello to Amsterdam PhD student Caitlin Meyer, who works on the acquisition of numerals and ordinals, with advisors Fred Weerman, Sjef Barbiers and Johan Rooryck.
Visiting us this semester from the Guangdong University of Technology is Wáng Hé-yù, a 2014 PhD from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
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.