Discussion will center around second position clitics,  and anyone with an interest in historical or generative linguistics is more than welcome to attend!

For questions or to obtain readings in advance, email Zach Rothstein-Dowden (rothsteindowden@g.harvard.edu) or Zuzanna Fuchs (zuzannafuchs@fas.harvard.edu), who...

Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language

Humans rapidly interpret utterances as soon as the words become available rather than postponing interpretation until the end of a sentence (Altmann & Steedman, 1988; Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard, & Sedivy, 1995) and they use locally available linguistic cues to form semantic and syntactic anticipations about the upcoming structure (Altmann & Kamide, 1999; Kamide, Scheepers, & Altmann, 2003). How about a developing parser? Real-time processing studies in children...

Discussion led by Maria Polinsky, Greg Scontras, Zuzanna Fuchs

The two readings are attached. In the Mendez et al. paper, Masha, Greg and Zuzanna suggest focusing on pp. 1-8.

Please contact Dorothy Ahn for the reading.