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Past Meetings

Past Events

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05/12/09, 5:00-6:00pm, Vanserg 130
Jenny Lee, Wellesley; Second language processing of dative and instrument prepositional-phrase attachment ambiguities: Toward an improved understanding of the argument/adjunct distinction (abstract)

04/28/09, 5:00-6:00pm, Vanserg 130
Discussion: Wilhelm (2008): Bare nouns and number in De Sułine; led by Ming Xiang, Harvard

04/21/09, 4:00-6:00pm, Yenching Auditorium
Daniel Dennett, Tufts; Battles in the Brain (2009 MBB Distinguished Lectures Series)

6:00-7:00pm, Emerson 101
Jeanette Gundel, University of Minnesota; Clefts from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (abstract)

04/14/09, 6:30-7:30pm, Prof. Michael Flier's house (please email for directions/rides)
Masha Polinsky, Harvard; Nothing to Lose but their Chains.

04/07/09, 6:00-7:00pm, Grays Hall 5 (map)
Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa; The Kernels of Phonology in a New Sign Language (abstract)

03/31/09, 5:00-6:00pm, Vanserg 130
Discussion: Posters and talks from CUNY 2009.

03/17/09, 5:00-6:00pm, Vanserg 130
Peter Graff, MIT and Jacopo Romoli, Harvard; Exploring a Learning Bias against Non-Conservative Determiners (abstract)

03/10/09, 5:15-6:15pm, Vanserg 130
Discussion: Bobaljik and Wurmbrand (2008): Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature; led by Peter Jenks, Harvard

03/03/09, 5:00-6:00pm, Vanserg 130
Shukhan Ng, CUNY; Processing Chinese Empty Categories (abstract)

02/24/09, 5:15-6:15pm, Vanserg 130
Cilene Rodrigues, University of Brasilia & Emmanuel College; Are We in the Same Century?: Pirahã and Human Universals (abstract)

02/17/09, 5:15-6:15pm, Vanserg 130
Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Atom Theory and Aspectual Focus (abstract)

02/10/09, 6-7pm, Barker Center Thompson Room 110
William O'Grady, University of Hawaii; Scope Transfer in Korean-English Heritage (abstract)

02/03/09, 5:15-6:15pm, Vanserg 130
Nayoung Kwon, Wellesley & Harvard; Processing of Syntactic and Anaphoric Gap-Filler Dependencies in Korean: Evidence from ERP, Self-Paced Reading Time, and Eye-Tracking Experiments (abstract)

12/09/08, 5-6pm, Vanserg 130
Discussion: Aldridge (2008): Generative Approaches to Ergativity (homepage); led by Jeremy Aron-Dine, Harvard

11/25/08, 5-6pm, Vanserg 130
Sun-Hee Lee, Wellesley College: A historical corpus approach to constraints on Korean reflexive caki (abstract)

11/18/08
CJ Kelly, Harvard; Chinese classifiers. (5-6pm, Vanserg 130)

Ken Wexler, MIT; Clefts, Inverse Copulas, and Passives: Understanding Their Delayed Acquisition as Phasal Difficulties. (6-7pm, Boylston 303)

11/04/08
Ekaterina Kravtchenko; The roles of antecedent person and syntactic position in Russian null subject interpretation

10/30/08, 5-6pm, Vanserg 130
Annie Gagliardi, University of Maryland; The Acquisition of Noun Classes in Tsez (abstract)

10/21/08
Anna Verbuk: Relevance Implicatures, Nonverbal Inferences and Modularity (abstract)

10/07/08
Dustin Heestand, Harvard; Resumption in syntactic islands (Work in progress) (CUNY poster)

09/30/08
Nayoung Kwon, Wellesley; Processing advantages of subject gaps in syntactic and referential gap-filler dependencies: Evidence from reading time and ERP data (Chapter 5)

09/23/08, 6-7pm, Vanserg 130
Nayoung Kwon, Wellesley; Processing of Syntactic and Anaphoric Gap-Filler Dependencies in Korean: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Time, ERP and Eye-Tracking Experiments (Chapter 4)

09/18/08
Organizational meeting!

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

10/26/09, 3:00-5:00pm, Sever 203
Loraine Obler, CUNY
Ling200 Invited Lecture: Bilingual brain imaging

04/23/09, 4:00-6:00pm, Yenching Auditorium
Daniel Dennett, Tufts; How Brains Become Minds: The Role Of Cultural Software
2009 MBB Distinguished Lectures Series.
Post-lecture commentary by Steve Pinker.

04/22/09, 4:00-6:00pm, Yenching Auditorium
Daniel Dennett, Tufts; My Body Has A Mind Of Its Own: So What Does It Need Me For?
2009 MBB Distinguished Lectures Series.
Post-lecture commentary by Sean Kelly.

03/13/08, 4pm, Boylston Hall 103
Jonathan David Bobaljik, University of Connecticut: Word Order, Economy, Scope: Implications of the 3/4 Signature (abstract)
For more information, click here.

12/02/08, Prof. Michael Flier's residence
Linguistics Colloquium
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University: One, three, five: Count forms in Russian grammar.
The slides can be downloaded here.

10/31/08 - 11/02/08, Boston University - George Sherman Union
The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 33)
For more information, click here.

10/30/08, 1-5pm, Boston University - George Sherman Union
Symposium on Language Development
Slow Mapping, Fast Mapping: Children's Word Learning 30 Years After Carey & Bartlett (1978)
For more information, click here.

10/14/08, 4-6pm, Yenching Auditorium
Conversations in Mind/Brain/Behavior
Moderated by Marc Hauser, MBB Co-Director and Professor of Psychology, FAS
For more information, click here.

10/02/08, 4-6pm, Yenching Auditorium
The State of Cognitive Neuroscience: Accomplishments and Prospects
Moderated by Marc Hauser, MBB Co-Director and Professor of Psychology, FAS
For more information, click here.

06/23/08 - 06/25/08, 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

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