#  Week of April 1 

 





April 01, 2019

 

 

###  Harvard at CUNY 2019 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

 [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox), [Yingtong Liu](/people/yingtong-liu), and [Yuhan Zhang](/people/claire-zhang) presented the following talks at the [32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing](https://www.colorado.edu/event/cuny2019/program), 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](http://socsci.uci.edu/~rfutrell/) (UC Irvine), [Takashi Morita](http://linguistics.mit.edu/user/tmorita/) (MIT), [Peng Qian](https://bcs.mit.edu/users/pqianmitedu) (MIT BCS), Miguel Ballesteros, and [Roger Levy](http://www.mit.edu/~rplevy/) (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](http://web.mit.edu/ryskin/www/) (MIT), Richard Futrell (UC Irvine), and [Edward Gibson](https://bcs.mit.edu/users/egibsonmitedu) (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](/people/zuzanna-fuchs) (PhD 2019) has accepted a tenure-track position at the [University of Iowa](https://linguistics.uiowa.edu/people) Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Zuzanna!

###  Bhadra to the University of Minnesota

 Our College Fellow, [Diti Bhadra](/people/diti-bhadra) has accepted a tenure-track position at the [University of Minnesota](https://cla.umn.edu/linguistics) Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Diti!

###  XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)

 "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu"

 [Larry Hyman](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~hyman/) (UC Berkeley)

 Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113



 

 

 



 

 

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