# Week of September 2, 2019 September 02, 2019 ### Fall 2019 session begins The fall 2019 semester begins on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. The course registration deadline for all students, including special students, is Monday, September 9 at 11:59p.m. ### Welcome G1s and visitors! A very warm welcome to our incoming graduate students [Jack Rabinovitch](/people/jack-rabinovitch), [Ankana Saha](/people/ankana-saha), and [Hande Sevgi](/people/hande-sevgi)! Also, welcome to Daran Yang, who is a Visiting Scholar from the School of Foreign Languages at Hangzhou Normal University. ### Welcome Sauerland! Welcome to [Uli Sauerland](/people/uli-sauerland), who is a visiting professor in our department this fall! ### Liu Awarded Travel Grant for CUNY 32 [Yingtong Liu](/people/yingtong-liu) was awarded a Student Travel Award for presenting at the [32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference](https://www.colorado.edu/event/cuny2019/), held at UC Boulder on March 29-31. Congratulations! ### Harvard at CLS 55 The following members of our department presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society's 55th annual conference, held at the University of Chicago on May 16-19. - [Shannon Bryant](/people/shannon-bryant): "Effects of Creator role on binding into Picture Noun Phrases" (joint work with [Isabelle Charnavel](/people/isabelle-charnavel)) - [Deniz Satik](/people/deniz-satik): "Logophoric Pronouns are not Inherently Logophoric" - [Yingtong Liu](/people/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](http://socsci.uci.edu/~rfutrell/) (UC Irvine), and [Edward Gibson](https://bcs.mit.edu/users/egibsonmitedu) (MIT). ### Wilcox presented at NAACL [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox) gave a talk titled "Stuctural Supervision improves learning of non-local grammatical dependencies" at the [2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Associational for Computational Linguistics](https://naacl2019.org/) (NAACL), which was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 2-7. ### Fenger presented at CGSW [Paula Fenger](/people/paula-fenger) (Harvard/UConn) gave a poster presentation titled "A n(umber) of things: Linking morphemes in Dutch and German", joint work with [Gísli Rúnar Hardharson](https://gislihardarson.wordpress.com/) (University of Iceland), at the [Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 34](http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/CGSW34/2019/Welcome.html), held in Kostanz, Germany on June 14-15. ### Harvard at CogSci 41 The following Harvard linguistics people presented at the [41st Annual Conferennce of the Cognitive Science Society](https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/past-conferences/), held in Montreal, Canada on July 24-27. - [Yingtong Liu](/people/yingtong-liu): "A frequency effect on filler-gap constructions: factive and manner-of-speaking island", joint work with [Rachel Ryskin](http://web.mit.edu/ryskin/www/) (MIT), [Richard Futrell](http://socsci.uci.edu/~rfutrell/) (UC Irvine), and [Edward Gibson](https://bcs.mit.edu/users/egibsonmitedu) (MIT) - [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox): - "What Syntactic Structures block Dependencies in RNN Language Models?" - "Prosodic Cues to Syntactic Structure in a Large Dataset" (poster) - "Testing Gender Markedness of Nouns with a Self-Paced Reading Study" (poster) - "The Role of Prior Beliefs in the Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a case study" (poster) ### Wilcox presented at BlackboxNLP [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox) gave a talk titled "Hierarchical Representation in Neural Language Models: Suppression and Recovery of Expectations" at [BlackboxNLP](https://blackboxnlp.github.io/), a workshop of the [57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics](http://www.acl2019.org/EN/index.xhtml). The conference was held in Florence, Italy form July 28-August 2. ### Harvard at GLOW-in-Asia XII The following members of our department presented at [Glow-In-Asia XII](http://sicogg.or.kr/GLOW-Asia-12-2019/), held at Dongguk University, in Seoul, South Korea on August 7-9. - [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn): "The role of contrast in anaphoric expression in ASL", joint work with [Annemarie Kocab](http://annemarie-kocab.com/) and [Kathryn Davidson](/people/kathryn-davidson). - [Yuyin He](/people/yuying-he): "Tense-aspect particles or not: the lesson from the comparison between tensed and tenseless languages" ![glow_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/glow_photo.jpg?itok=gx9gM4Gi) ### Gonzalez to present at SUB 24 [Aurore Gonzalez](/people/aurore-gonzalez) will present a poster titled "A Compositional Semantics for Free Choice Constituent Unconditionals", joint work with Karoliina Lohiniva (NYU/University of Geneva), at [Sinn und Bedeutung 24](https://sites.google.com/site/sinnundbedeutung24/), at Osnabrück University, Germany on September 4-6. 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