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...
Our lab director Kate Davidson participated in BUCLD45 with a joint work with Masoud Jasbi, Annika McDermott-Hinman, and Susan Carey on "Parents’ and children’s production of English negation" (M. Jasbi, A. McDermott-Hinman, K. Davidson, S. Carey).
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...
Two student lab members presented work at Semantics And Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30 at (virtual) Cornell this week! Josh Martin presented a talk on "Wh-the-hell as a polarity-insensitive, speaker-oriented domain restrictor", and Shannon Bryant presented joint work with Diti Bhadra on "Situation types in complementation: Oromo Attitude Reports".
Johanna Alstott will be presenting a poster on joint work with Masoud Jasbi on "Lexicalization of quantificational forces in adverbial and determiner domains" at the CogSci 2020 virtual meeting this July. Check it out online! Read more about Johanna and Masoud at CogSci
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.
