Kate Davidson and Yuhan Zhang recently returned from Chicago to present at the 58th annual conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Yuhan presented her work with Kate on "Competing de dicto terms reduce de re acceptability" (pictured) and Kate presented an invited talk on "Semiotic distinctions in compositional semantics".

 

Josh Martin (PhD class of 2022) accepted a job to start this summer as a User Research Analyst witb Spotify - huge congratulations!!! And lucky us, he'll be working at the Spotify offices right here in Boston!

The Human Sentence Processing (HSP, formerly CUNY) conference will have several presentations by lab members and friends of the lab, including a poster by Shannon Bryant on "Expectation as a predictor of pronoun acceptability in English prepositional phrases", a poster by Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, and Kate Davidson on "How anaphoric are presupposition triggers? Evidence from cataphora", and an invited talk by Kate Davidson on "A framework for parallel sources of sentence meaning".

Congratulations to Ankana Saha, who recently received a graduate student award from the Mind, Brian, and Behavior Initiative at Harvard to support her participation in NASSLLI this summer at the University of Southern California! 

Several folks in the lab are giving presentations at the LSA this January: "Accounting for variability in the truth-evaluation of bare epistemic possibility statements" by Giuseppe Ricciardi and Josh Martin, "Privatives across phases: disambiguating the sources of adnominal modification," by Josh Martin, "Location, Location, Location: Anaphora selection in English locative prepositional phrases," by Shannon Bryant, "Narrow Scoping Content Question Items in Shifty Contexts: A Case of Surprising Non-Quotation in Uyghur," by Jack Rabinovitch, "Demonstrative Shift and Proximal Markedness," by Tess Monks and Kate Davidson, and "Depictive versus patterned iconicity and dual semantic representations," by Kate Davidson

A recent beautiful New England fall day near our lab meant some turkey visitors, a bubble tea break, and urban breakthrough blooms 

Dora Mihoc (PhD 2019) has accepted a position at Canonical - a big hooray for open source, and huge congratulations to Dora!!!

Gunnar Lund (PhD 2021) has accepted a position as an Analytical Linguist at Grammarly - huge congratulations!!!

Tess Monks presented work with Kate Davidson on "Demonstrative shift and proximal markedness", and Gunnar Lund gave an invited talk "From pluractionality to aspect" at Formal Approaches to Diachonic Semantics (FoDS). We're excited to be using experimental and theoretical methods to address questions in semantic change, a new topic area for our lab! 

Congratulations to undergraduate lab members Mikaela Belle Martin and Sara Manning, who presented summaries of their independent summer research projects in today's lab meeting! Mikaela, who is conducting research through the SHARP summer research village program, shared an experimental investigation of bottom up and top down cues in sarcasm. Sara, who received an HRCP grant, presented experimental work on topics vs. specificity in differential object marking in Spanish. Fantastic job!