Autumn on campus again
October 4, 2021
A recent beautiful New England fall day near our lab meant some turkey visitors, a bubble tea break, and urban breakthrough blooms
Welcome to the lab!
Latest News
Dora to Canonical
September 28, 2021
Dora Mihoc (PhD 2019) has accepted a position at Canonical - a big hooray for open source, and huge congratulations to Dora!!!
Gunnar to Grammarly
September 7, 2021
Gunnar Lund (PhD 2021) has accepted a position as an Analytical Linguist at Grammarly - huge congratulations!!!
Tess and Kate and Gunnar at FoDS
September 7, 2021
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!
Undergraduate summer projects
August 5, 2021
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!
Ethan at CogSci
July 19, 2021
Ethan Wilcox will be presenting a poster at CogSci 2021 (26-29 July) with the title "Using the interpolated maze task to assess incremental processing in english relative clauses" in collaboration with Pranli Vani & Roger Levy (MIT)
Giuseppe & Josh at SPP 2021
June 22, 2021
Giuseppe Ricciardi & Martin Joshua are going to present a poster with the title "Epistemic modality and the true nature of eavesdropping judgments" at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) held online on June 28-July 2
Sara HCRP Grant
June 13, 2021
Sara received a grant from the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) from the Dunwalke Fund for Undergraduate Research to conduct a summer project in the lab about triggers of differential object marking (DOM) in Persian, American Sign Language (ASL), Spanish, and Catalan.
Kate and Annemarie: grants for their work on representation of possibilities in emergent languages
June 13, 2021
Kate Davidson together with Annemarie Kocab and Jesse Snedeker (Harvard Psychology) received grants
- from the Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for collaborative work on "The Representation of Possibility in Language and in Thought: Evidence from Language Emergence."
- from the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative for collaborative work on"The representation of possibility in users of Nicaraguan Sign Language and homesign."
Hande and Josh at CLS 57
May 25, 2021
The following members of our lab presented at the 57th Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 57) on May 6-8. The conference was hosted by the University of Chicago.
• Josh Martin: "Emergent privativity and constrained modulation in adjective semantics" (talk)
• Hande Sevgi: "Syntax on its own is not enough: Sign language classifiers" (poster)
