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Yuhan Zhang stands at a podium in front of a slide with pictures from the Disney movie Sleeping beauty (Aurore and a single prince, and then Aurore thinking about prince things)

Yuhan and Kate at CLS

April 27, 2022

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 to Spotify

April 2, 2022
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!

MBB grant to Ankana

March 22, 2022
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!  Read more about MBB grant to Ankana

Lab at the LSA 2022

November 19, 2021
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... Read more about Lab at the LSA 2022

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 

A collage of 3 pictures: 2 turkeys, 4 students on an outside patio with a blue sky, and some orange flower among concrete

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!