Universals Reading Group

The lab meeting next Wednesday ( 4/30/14, 5:15 pm) will be a joint meeting of the Language Universals Reading Group and the Polinsky Lab: The Interaction of Vowel Devoicing and Pitch Accent in Shiraho Yaeyaman Presented by : Tyler Lau Location: 2 Arrow...

ABSTRACT: As is well-known, many languages with ergative systems of case or agreement nonetheless exhibit splits in their alignment, with ergativity failing to occur in some contexts. Viewpoint aspect is a common determinant of such splits, with...

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...

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.