If you've ever had the chance to work with Kate, you'd know she's a truly exceptional mentor. And now, it's official. Kate has won the 2024 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award!
What is this award? Well, this award is a big deal because it's all about recognizing outstanding mentors like Kate. Every year, students nominate faculty members who go above and beyond to support them. There were 77, yes SEVENTY-SEVEN, faculty members who got nominated this year, and our wonderful Kate was among the seven winners. Congratulations!
The 2024 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting was held January 4-7 in New York City, and was attended by current lab members Natasha Thalluri, who presented a poster on "Morphosyntactic convergence in Dakkhini Urdu- reanalysis and lexical innovation in the pronominal paradigm", Yuhan Zhang, who presented a poster on "More linguists have been to LSA than I have: Explaining the comparative illusion from a noisy-channel perspective", Jian Cui and Jack Rabinovitch, who presented on "Two Voices Calling Out as One... Read more about Lab members attend the LSA in NYC
This year Sinn & Bedeutung (SuB 28) at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) from September 5-8, 2023, with several lab members and alums participating. Natasha Thalluri and Kathryn Davidson presented their paper "Degrees and depiction - Gradability in sign languages", Anatasia Tsilia and Kathryn Davidson presented their paper "Effects of iconicity and monocity on licensing complement anaphora", and Yağmur Sağ presented their...
We were excited to welcome Shannon Bryant back from her postdoc position at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) to celebrate graduation here at Harvard Yard, picture with Kate Davidson after the GSAS ceremony in Sanders Theatre. Congratulations again to all of the M&M lab members/now alums who are 2023 graduates: Shannon (PhD), Guiseppe (PhD), Mikaela (AB), and Richard (AB)!
This year Semantics And Linguistic Theory (SALT) was held at Yale, with several lab members and alums participating. Ankana Saha, Yağmur Sağ & Kathryn Davidson presented a poster "Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English & Turkish", Gennaro Chierchia gave an invited talk, and (alums) Becky Jarvis presented on "Movement & interpretation of quantifiers in internally-headed relative clauses" and Johanna Alstott presented a poster on "Ordinal Numbers: Not Superlatives, but Modifiers of Superlatives", and Ankana, ...
We are excited to celebrate the class of 2023, including two of our awesome undergraduate lab members who are both headed to PhD programs in Linguistics this fall: Mikaela Belle Martin is headed to UPenn Linguistics and Richard Luo is headed to Yale Linguistics. We've been so lucky to work with both of you and can't wait to see where your linguistics research takes you!
Several lab folks and affiliates are presenting at the Human Sentence Processing conference next week at the University of Pittsburgh, including Yuhan Zhang with one poster on pronoun gender bias and another on the interpretation of logical connectives crosslinguistically, Dasha Bikina on pragmatics of bare nouns in Russian, Hao Lin on word order and age of acquistion in CSL, and Anthony Yacavone on form-based lexical prediction in children.
Several members of the lab presented at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) at Yale: Ankana Saha presented on "The puzzle of kind reference in Bangla", Yuhan Zhang presented on "The puzzle of de re acceptability for definite noun phrases", and Natasha Thalluri presented on "Effects of information structure on word order in Hindi".
