The Polinsky Language Lab
Home
People Events Research Current Studies

Upcoming Events

June 23–27, 2008, Harvard University:
Second Heritage Language Summer Institute:
Developing a Research Base for the Heritage Field

Directed by: Professor Maria Polinsky
For more information, please click here

Lab Meetings

* all lab meetings are in Vanserg 130, 5-6 pm unless otherwise noted

05/13/08
Donna Karen Byron, Ohio State; Investigating demonstrative pronouns for spoken dialog systems

05/06/08
Sun-Hee Lee, Wellesley; Annotation of Korean Learners' Corpora for Particle Error Detection

04/22/08
Discussion: new projects!

04/08/08
David Pesetsky, MIT; Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories

04/01/08
Cilene Rodrigues; The Internal DP Structure of Topicalized Quantified Expressions (abstract)

03/11/08
Discussion: CUNY 2008 posters!

02/19/08
Linnaea Stockall, Concordia; Building Aspectual Interpretations (abstract)

12/18/07, 12-2:00pm Vanserg 130
Mikyung Bong, Wellesley; Class Distinction in Korean Word Acquisition - Noun bias? Verb bias?

11/13/07
Discussion: Alexopoulou and Keller (2007) and Phillips (2006)

11/05/07, 3-4:30pm Vanserg 130
Silvina Montrul, UIUC; Spanish Object Expression under Incomplete L1 and L2 Acquisition (abstract)

10/30/07
Sun-Hee Lee and MiKyung Bong, Wellesley; Incomplete Acquisition and Word Class Distinctions

10/16/07
Andrew Nevins, Harvard; Investigating Conjunct Agreement in Slovenian

10/09/07
Maria Polinsky, Harvard; Experimental work on heritage languages

10/04/07
Susan Fischer, UCSD; Sign Language Surprises: Things we thought were true about all sign languages but it turns out they aren't, or at least not necessarily (abstract)

09/25/07, 5-6pm 32D-123
Suzanne Flynn, MIT; Off with their heads: First, second and third language learners prefer their relatives headless

09/18/07
Maria Polinsky, Harvard; Processing advantages of subject gaps in syntactic and referential gap-filler dependencies

09/11/07
Ming Xiang, Harvard; Processing resumptive pronouns in syntactic islands

Other Events

03/28/08, 4 pm, Tufts University - Psychology Department Conference Room
Ellen Bialystok, York University; Lifelong Bilingualism: Effect on Executive Control (abstract)
For directions: http://www.tufts.edu/home/maps/#medford

10/23/07, 5-6pm Science Center Hall B
MBB Initiative *Ideas on the Fringe* Conversation Series, speaker Steven Pinker


The Polinsky Lab
Harvard University
Vanserg Building
10 Divinity Ave/
29 Francis Ave, Rm 130
Cambridge MA 02138
617-496-5426
Copyright © 2007 The President and Fellows of Harvard College