Week of April 1
Harvard at CUNY 2019 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Ethan Wilcox, Yingtong Liu, and Yuhan Zhang presented the following talks at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, hosted at the University of Colorado Boulder on March 29-31, 2019.
- Ethan Wilcox: "Large neural network language models learn representation of incremental parse states", joint work with Richard Futrell (UC Irvine), Takashi Morita (MIT), Peng Qian (MIT BCS), Miguel Ballesteros, and Roger Levy (MIT)
- Ethan Wilcox: "Syntactic structure aids learning of grammatical dependencies in neural networks", joint work with Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros and Roger Levy
- Yingtong Liu: "Factive and manner-of-speaking islands are an artifact of nonlinearity in the acceptability judgment task", joint work with Rachel Ryskin (MIT), Richard Futrell (UC Irvine), and Edward Gibson (MIT)
- Yingtong Liu: "Speaker choice in language production: Optional passive marker BEI in Mandarin", joint work with Yingzhao Zhou and Edward Gibson
- Yuhan Zhang: "Predication or processing burden? --The online comprehension of the classifier-noun pair in Mandarin Chinese", joint work with Peng Zhou
Fuchs to the University of Iowa
Zuzanna Fuchs (PhD 2019) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Iowa Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Zuzanna!
Bhadra to the University of Minnesota
Our College Fellow, Diti Bhadra has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Minnesota Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Diti!
XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)
"The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu"
Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)
Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113