The following members of our lab will be presenting at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (March 4-6th).

Short Talk: "How many response options in a TVJT? It depends" Yuhan Zhang, Giuseppe Ricciardi and Kathryn Davidson

Short Talk: "English locative inversions are not special in terms of their discourse function" Giuseppe Ricciardi, Rachel Ryskin and Edward Gibson

The following lab members received grants from the Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative (MBB):

   -  Josh Martin and Kathryn Davidson received an MBB Research Relief Mini Award ($4,000) for their project "Comparing crowd-sourcing platforms for semantic judgments"

   -  Ethan Wilcox received an MBB Graduate Student Award ($1,260) for his project "Experimental and Computational Assessment of Presupposition Contextual Felicity Constraints"

The following members of our lab presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2021). The LSA was hosted on January 7-10, 2021 and was held virtually.

Shannon Bryant, "Evidence from Oromo on the typology of complementation strategies" (talk)

Josh Martin, "D-linking and the semantics of wh-in-situ" (poster)

For her abstract, Shannon received second place in the Student Abstract Award. This is given to the top abstracts submitted to the conference by students. Congratulations, Shannon!

Our lab will be well represented at next week's Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), which will be held online https://www.elm-conference.net/. 

Yuhan Zhang and Kate Davidson will be presenting a poster on 'De re interpretation in belief reports--An experimental investigation' (Poster session 1: Wed 16th at 1-2:30pm ET); Giuseppe Ricciardi will be presenting on 'Epistemic must p is literally a strong statement' (R. Riskyn, E. Gibson Talk, on Wed 16th at 2:30-3pm ET); Teodora Mihoc and Kate Davidson will be presenting a talk on 'Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A negotiable cost'  (Talk on Fri 18th at 5-5:30pm ET).

Warmest congratulations to research assistant and ASL program instructor Kate Henninger, who will be starting the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Chicago this fall! We are incredibly proud of your work already here in the lab, and can't wait to see the exciting places awaiting you in your future.