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The Wordovators project. led by Janet Pierrehumbert, and the Wordovators team will be funded by a U.S.$2.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

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Dear friends and colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I write to let you know that our dear friend and colleague, Rae Moses, passed away on Thursday, February 7th.

The funeral will be held on Monday February 11 at 2 p.m. at the Weinstein Funeral Home at 111 Skokie Boulevard in Wilmette (tel: 847-256-5700).

Leon won't be home for a while, as he will be in rehab following a fall. Condolence cards should be sent to Rae's daughter at:
Megan Moses McBride
4411 Bridgewood Ln
Charlotte, NC 28226

Please note that there will be an obituary for Rae in Sunday's Tribune, in which donations will be directed to the Little Brothers of the Poor.

Those of us who knew Rae as a colleague in the department and as a friend will always remember her as a remarkable woman in more ways than can be listed here. She was a beloved teacher and advisor, and brought a unique warmth and energy to our community of linguists at Northwestern.

If you know of people who knew and loved Rae who might not yet have heard of either Rae's passing or about these arrangements, please do let them know. Thank you.

With great sadness,
Ann

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Gregory Ward has been selected for the 2011-2012 ASG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll.

Irene Sakk was recently presented with a Service Excellence Award.

Chun Chan has been named a finalist for this year's Employee of the Year award.

Gregory Ward is the recipient of the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2011-2012

The following papers have been presented at Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics (GLEEFUL) 2012 at Michigan State University, April 21, 2012.

Morgan Purrier, Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman and Rebekah Ward, "Online Filler-gap Dependency Formation and That-Trace Effect"

Rebekah Ward, Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman and Morgan Purrier, "A test of syntactic island effects".

Elizabeth Allyn Smith accepted a job offer Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM).

John Evar Strid (Ph.D. 2006) accepted a job offer as Assistant Professor of Literacty Education at Northeaster Illinois University.

Magdalena Kaufmann accepted a job offer at Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut.

The following paper will be published:

Cooper, A. & Wang, Y. The influence of linguistic and musical experience on Cantonese word learning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

The following poster will be presented at 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting

Wang, Y., Yang Zhang, Angela Cooper and Mathieu Dovan. Effects of musical and linguistic experience on the processing of speech and non-speech pitch: an event-related electrophysiological study. 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31 – April 3.

The following paper will be presented at 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics:

Frazier, Michael, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida. Pseudo-NP-Coordination. 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30), Santa Cruz, April 13-15.

The following papers will be published:

Yoshida, Masaya, Honglei Wang and David Potter. Remarks on "Gapping" in DP. Linguistic Inquiry, 43(3).

Honglei Wang, David Potter, Masaya Yoshida. Cross-conjunct binding in nominal gapping. Snippets 24

David Potter received a scholarship to attend the North American Summer School of Logic, Language and Information in June.

The following papers will be presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory
(SALT) 22 in May, 2012, at the University of Chicago:

Magdalena Kaufmann (Goettingen) and Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern), "Epistemic Particles and Performativity" (Alternate)

Carl Pollard (OSU) and E. Allyn Smith (Northwestern), "A unified
analysis of the same, phrasal comparatives, and superlatives" (Poster)

The following papers and posters have been presented at CUNY 2012 sentence processing conference:

Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh), Scott Seyfarth (University of
California, San Diego), Brady Clark (Northwestern University), Gerhard Jaeger (University of Tübingen), and Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University), "Cost and implicature in word use: Testing predictions of a game-theoretic model of alignment" (Talk)

Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Rebekah Ward, and Morgan Purrier (Northwestern University), "The processing of backward sluicing" (Talk)

Peter Baumann (Northwestern University), "The role of hierarchical
structure in syntactic dependency integration" (Talk)

Lauren Ackerman and Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern University),
"Structurally informative prosodic cues in center-embedded and
right-branching sentences" (Poster)

Michael Frazier (Northwestern University), "Case-neutralized NPs in
Tagalog and the nature of heavy shift" (Poster)

The paper "Doran, Ryan, Gregory Ward, Meredith Larson, Yaron McNabb, and Rachel E. Baker. (2012) “A Novel Experimental Paradigm for Distinguishing Between ‘What is Said’ and ‘What is Implicated’,” to appear in Language 88." has been picked up by a couple of scientific news outlet:

News Track India March 10, 2012
New way to distinguish between literal meaning and contextual meaning:

"The new study, authored by Ryan Doran, Gregory Ward, Meredith Larson, Yaron McNabb, and Rachel E. Baker from Northwestern University, does just this."

Science Codex March 9, 2012
Literal Lucy to the rescue: A new way to distinguish between literal meaning and contextual meaning

"The study, "A novel empirical paradigm for distinguishing between What is Said and What is Implicated," to be published in the March 2012 issue of the scholarly journal Language, is authored by Ryan Doran, Gregory Ward, Meredith Larson, Yaron McNabb, and Rachel E. Baker, a team of linguists based at Northwestern University."

Gregory Ward has been invited to speak at the Workshop on Information, Discourse Structure, and Levels of Meaning (IDL 12) next October in Barcelona, Spain.

The following article has been published:

Brouwer, S., Van Engen, K., Calandruccio, L., and Bradlow, A. R.
(2012). Linguistic contributions to speech-on-speech masking for
native and non-native listeners: Language familiarity and semantic
content. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(2)
1449-1464.

Jenna Luque Julia Moore (2012) Pronunciation from the Perspective of a Linguist/Speech-Language Pathologist. Pearson E-News.

Gregory Ward has been invited to give a talk:

Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, Montreal. March. 2012

Department of Linguistics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN. February, 2012

Speaker, Workshop on the Discourse-Semantics Interface in Memory of Ellen F. Prince, “Pioneering the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Ellen F. Prince’s Early Contributions to Information Structure,” LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.  January. 2012.

Panelist, Organized Session organized by the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Student Issues and Concerns (COSIAC), LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.  Januar, 2012.

Plenary Speaker, Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. November., 2011

Gregory Ward has been invited to serve as on the following editorial board:

2012 –        Member of the Executive Board, American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA)

2012 –        Member of the Editorial Board, French Review of English Linguistics.

2011 – 14   Member of the Board of Advisory Editors, Journal of Pragmatics.

Gregory Ward was invited to teach at the 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Stefan Kaufmann has been invited to serve as associate editor of
Linguistics and Philosophy.

The following works have been published and presented:

Doran, Ryan, Gregory Ward, Meredith Larson, Yaron McNabb, and Rachel E. Baker. (2012) “A Novel Experimental Paradigm for Distinguishing Between ‘What is Said’ and ‘What is Implicated’,” to appear in Language 88.

Ward, Gregory. (2012) “Brave New Would: Demonstrative Equatives and Information Structure,” to appear in Proceedings of the Forty-First Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2011), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Ward, Gregory, Betty J. Birner, Laurence R. Horn, Barbara Abbott, Pauline Jacobson, and Jerrold M. Sadock. (2011) Ellen F. Prince; obituary in Language 87:866-872.

Ward, Gregory, Betty J. Birner, Laurence R. Horn, Barbara Abbott, Pauline Jacobson, and Jerrold M. Sadock. (2011) Ellen F. Prince; obituary in Language 87:866-872.

Ward, Gregory and Betty J. Birner. (2011) “Discourse Effects of Word Order Variation,” in Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol. 33.2, edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, and Paul Portner. Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 1934-1963.

Dehghani, M., R. Iliev, and S.
Kaufmann. 2011. Causal explanation and fact mutability in counterfactual
reasoning. Mind & Language 27(1):55-85.

Janet Pierrehumbert made a cameo appearance on the Today show discussing
the increasing use of vocal fry by young women.

Janet Pierrehumbert has been elected as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Gregory Ward was honored with the "Patience of Job" Award at the 2011 LSA Linguistic Institute.

The following poster has been accepted for presentation at the 52nd
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

Jordana Heller & Matt Goldrick "Dynamic Effects of Phonological
Neighborhood Density in Laboratory and Spontaneous Speech"

The following posters have been accepted for presentation at
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2011, in Paris,
France.

Jordana Heller & Janet Pierrehumbert "Word burstiness improves models of word reduction in spontaneous speech"

The following posters have been accepted for presentation at Testing
Models of Phonetics and Phonology workshop at the LSA's Linguistic
Institute 2011 in Boulder, CO

Karen Chu & Matt Goldrick "Gradient co-activation of articulatory
phonological representations in speech errors"


Jordana Heller & Matt Goldrick "Context matters: Effects of repetition
and lexical neighborhood on vowel production"

Janet Pierrehumbert will be an invited speaker on the theme
"Representations in Phonology" at the symposium celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the MIT Linguistics Department (Dec 9-11, 2011).

Altmann, Pierrehumbert, and Motter's recent article "Niche as a
determinant of word fate in on-line discussion groups" PLoS One 6(5),
e19009 was featured in the Brazilian science magazine Revista FAPESP (in
Portuguese).

Gregory Ward has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Journal of Pragmatics.

Gregory Ward has been invited to give a seminar as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Vigo in June.

Gregory Ward has been invited to deliver a plenary address at the Western Conferenceon Linguistics (WECOL 2011) in November.

Janet Pierrehumbert has been appointed to the Edward Sapir Professorship
(formerly the LSA Professorship) for the 2013 Linguistic Society of
America Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. The theme of the
Institute will be "Universality and Variability".

Kristen Syrett (PhD, 2007) has accepted a position as assistant professor in the Linguistics Department at Rutgers University.

Midam Kim will give an invited talk on "Phonetic convergence after perceptual exposure to native and nonnative speech" at the meting of Language Processing Brown Bag at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 17, 2011.

The following paper has been published:

Kim, M., Horton, W., and Bradlow, A. (2011). Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance. Laboratory Phonology. Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 125–156.

The following papers have been accepted for presentation:

Kim, M. (2011). Phonetic convergence after perceptual exposure towards native and nonnative speakers. The 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington (http://acousticalsociety.org/meetings/future_meeting/seattle/seattle).

Kim, M. (2011). Phonetic convergence after perceptual exposure to native and nonnative speech: preliminary findings based on fine-grained acoustic-phonetic measurement. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China (http://www.icphs2011.hk/).

Jordana Heller and Charlotte Vaughn have been awarded fellowships for the
LSA Summer Institute in Boulder Colorado.

Janet Pierrehumbert delivered a plenary address entitled "Example based
learning and the dynamics of the lexicon" at the Linguistics Society of
American Annual meeting.

Stefan Kaufmann has been invited to speak at a symposium in honor of Judea
Pearl, the recipient of this year's Rumelhart Prize, at the Annual Meeting
of the Cognitive Science Society
in Boston, MA, in July.

Melissa Baese won the Acoustical Society of America Speech
Communication Student Paper competition for the paper entitled "Learning novel phonetic categories in perception and production."

Jen Hay (Ph.D 2000) has been selected as one of the inaugural recipients of the New Zealand 'Rutherford Discovery Fellowship'.

The fellowship provides support for early to mid- career researchers. This competitive fellowship is worth NZ$1,000,000. It releases her from teaching for 5
years, and provides funding to support her proposed research program on 'Episodic Word Memory'.

Melissa Baese-Berk has been offered at postdoctoral position at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastian, Spain.

Xiaoju Zheng and Janet Pierrehumbert "The Effects of Prosodic Prominence and Serial Position on Duration Perception" has been accepted for publication in The Jounal of Acoustical Society of America.

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

Midam Kim and Ann Bradlow "Phonetic convergence as a function of linguistic and social distances"

Engstler, C. "Phonological and lexical attrition after a study-abroad experience."

Paterson, N., & Goldrick, M. "Does task constrain cross-language phonetic interactions?"

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2011 in Pittsburgh

Ken Konopka, "Community consensus and the vowels of Mexican heritage English"

Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida, Janet Pierrehumbert, "Evidence from the movement of the reduplicated adjective"

Lee, Y., & Goldrick, M.  "The role of abstraction in constructing phonological structure."

The following papers and posters have been accepted for presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, at University of York, York, UK:

Baese-Berk, M. "An examination of the relationship between speech perception and production."

Goldrick, M., Baker, H. R., Murphy, A., & Baese-Berk, M.  "Beyond cascading activation: Lexical-phonetic interactions in speech production."

Heller, J, Pierrehumbert J., and Rapp D."Predicting words beyond the syntactic horizon: Word recurrence distributions modulate on-line long-distance lexical predictability."

Paterson, N. & Goldrick, M.  "Neighborhood effects in cross-linguistic phonetic processing."

Yoshida, M., Kazanina, N., Pablos, L., & Sturt, P. "On the Origin of Islands"

Jennifer Alexander has been offered a posdoc at Simon Frazer University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Project title: Acoustic Perceptual Properties of Suprasegmental Contrast Systems

Supported by NSF International Research Fellowship Program

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 20th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
, at Chicago IL, August 2010:

Heller, J., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rapp, D. (August 2010). "Word
recurrence distributions modulate the on-line predictability of
repeated words in extended texts."

Rachel Baker has accepted the position of Director Applied Linguistics Research and Development at EF Education First.

Tyler Kendall accepted a position as an assistant professor
in the Linguistics Department at the University of Oregon.

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) , Harvard University, May 2010:

Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida & Janet Pierrehumbert, "Movement within the nominal phrase in Mandarin: reduplicated adjectives"

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the ChicagoLinguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 2010:

Ken Konopka & Janet Pierrehumber, "Vowel dynamics of Mexican Heritage English: Language contact and phonetic change in a Chicago community"

Mark Ettlinger & Hannah Rohde, "The Pragmatic-Phonetics Interface: Inferences about pronouns influence phonetic category perception"

Ken Konopka gave an invited talk "Vowels of Mexican Heritage English: Beyond the static", at the TiL (Talks in Linguistics) colloquium at University of Illinois Chicago on February 5th.

Janet Pierrehumbert will deliver a plenary lecture at the 2011 Linguistic Society of America meeting (6-9 January, 2011, in Pittsburgh)

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of New Mexico, July 2010:

Nattalia Paterson & Matt Goldrick "Lexically-conditioned gestural drift in bilingual speech production direction "

Melissa Baese-Berk has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants for the project "Doctoral Dissetation Research: Learning of Novel Phonetic Categories After Training in Perception and Production" (under the direction of Matt Goldrick)

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 2010:

Hannah Rohde & William Horton "Why or what next? Eye movements reveal expectations about discourse direction"

Matt Goldrick has been named an Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Alumna Jen Hay (Ph.D 2000), Assoc. Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, has obtained a $3,250,000 grant to launch the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour, which she will direct. NU Linguistics has an institutional cooperation agreement with NZ ILBB via the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. (Press release)

Janet Pierrehumbert has been awarded an Erskine Fellowship to the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for two months this summer.

Janet Pierrehumbert's recent article with Eduardo Altmann and Adilson Motter ("Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words." PLoS ONE, 2009) was featured in Complexity Digest: http://comdig.unam.mx/

Caroline Engstler has been awarded a $2976 Graduate Research grant to fund her dissertation work on "Phonological Attrition after a Study-Abroad Experience" with Matt Goldrick, Ann Bradlow, and Margaret Sinclair.

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in Baltimore, January 2010:

Ahern, C. Hayden T. and Ward, G. "An Empirical Investigation of Typicality and Uniqueness Effects on Article Choice"

Kendall, T and Fridland V. "Mapping production and perception: The influence of regional & individual norms"

Baker, R. "The perception of English prosodic prominence by non-native speakers"

 

The following paper has been accepted for presentatin at The Psychonomic Society of American in Boston, November 2009.

Paterson, N.& Goldrick, M. "Does the cognate effect reflect the letter or the spirit of cross-language interaction?"

The following poster has been accepted for presentation at the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, Texas. October 2009

Van Engen, K. "Speech intelligibility in speech noise: a perceptual training study."

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the
Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology at Indiana University, October
2009
:

Baese-Berk, M., Van Engen, K. Walter, M. A. and Bradlow, A. "Perceptual Similarity of Language and Accents"

Van Engen, K., Brouwer, S., Calandrucci, L., Bradlow, A. "Speech-in-speech Perception: Linguistic Familiarity and Similarity"

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the
American Association for Corpus Linguistics, (AACL), October, 2009

Vaughn, C., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rohde, H. "Using character n-grams to classify native language in a non-native English corpus of transcribed speech"

Matt Goldrick has been awarded a $429,999 NSF CAREER grant to fund his work on "Integrating Grammatical and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Phonological Processes in Speech Production" from September 2009 through August 2014.

 

Jiaxi Liu and Page Piccinini have been awarded WCAS conference travel grants for their trips to the meetings of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), respectively.

 

Jiaxi Liu has been awarded a graduate scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, providing $50,000 per year for up to six years of graduate education.

Mary Ann Walter will be teaching two courses on experimental phonology and language games in the egg summer school in Poznan, Poland, in August.

Midam Kim has received a $3000 Graduate Research Grant to work on her dissertation project on "Phonetic Accommodation after Perceptual Exposure to Native and Nonnative Speech of English and Korean" with her advisers Ann Bradlow, Sid Horton, and Matt Goldrick.

Matt Goldrick has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.

Soon-to-be doctor Robert Daland has successfully defended his dissertation.

Jordana Heller has been awarded a Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship for 2009-10 for her project entitled "Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading," co-advised by Janet Pierrehumbert and David Rapp (Learning Sciences/Psychology).

At the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (CAURS) in Chicago, April 2009:

Liu, J., "Comparing the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure."

 

Piccinini, P., "Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented English" and won the best poster award.

Greetings to our incoming class of graduate students: Lauren Ackerman (Boston University), Ann Burchfield (Simons Rock), Karen Chu (MIT), Michael Frazier (U. Virginia), and Jenna Luque (Northwestern).

Olivia Cooper (BA 2009) has accepted an offer from the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program at the University of Oklahoma to enter their Ph.D. program in Fall, 2009.

Alex Djalali (BA 2008, currently ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will be presenting his work on "Probabilistic inferences in dynamic semantics" (jointly with Stefan Kaufmann) at the Tenth Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa10) in Balatonszemes, Hungary, in August 2009.

Amanda Murphy has been awarded a $3,000 University Research Grants Committee (URGC) summer research grant to work on her project on "Speech production and aphasia: Exploring the effects of deficits to lexical access on phonological encoding" with Matt Goldrick.

Stefan Kaufmann has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2009-10 academic year to work on the project "Speaking of Possibility and Time."

Stefan Kaufmann has accepted an invitation to spend the 2009-10 academic year as a fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at Georg-August-Universit? G?tingen, Germany.

Stefan Kaufmann has received a $5,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation to purchase a server and backup service for data storage and analysis to be used in computational linguistics courses.

Mary Ann Walter has accepted a job as Assistant Professor at the Middle East Technical University, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Robert Daland has accepted a tenure-track position in Phonology at UCLA.

Jiaxi Liu has been awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship to study German in Germany in Summer, 2009.

Gregory Ward was elected a Fellow of the Lingusitic Society of America.

Ann Bradlow was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Ken Konopka recently gave an invited talk at Norteastern Illinois University on "Mexican Heritage English: Language Variation in Chicago."

Two of our graduate students were awarded Graduate Research Grants this year: Jennifer Alexander for her project "Acoustic Properties of Suprasegmental Contrast Systems," and Nattalia Paterson for work on "The Role of Word-Specific Factors in Producing Second Language Accents."

Chun-Liang Chan has received an Honorable Mention for the WCAS Meteor Staff Award.

Northwestern Linguistics will co-host Speech Prosody 2010 in Chicago in partnership with faculty at the Beckman Institute (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and the Toyota Technological Institute (Chicago). Speech Prosody is a special interest group of ISCA, the International Speech Commmunication Association. The successful bid was spearheaded by Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, of the Beckman Institute.

Soon-to-be Doctor Lewis Gebhardt has successfully defended his dissertation.

Jiaxi Liu has won a $1,000 URGC grant to support her work on her honors project "Comparing the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure" with Ric Ashley, Brady Clark and Stefan Kaufmann.

Presentations at this year's In Search Of Meaning (ISOM), the Midwest Semantics/Pragmatics workshop, held at The Ohio State University on October 18, 2009:

Rachel Baker, Ryan Doran, Meredith larson, Yaron McNabb, and Gregory Ward: Distinguishing between the SAID and the IMPLICATED: An Empirical Investigation

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in San Francisco, January 2009:

 
  • Robert Daland: Diphone-based word segmentation in Russian and English
  • Midam Kim: Discourse Markers in Conversations between Native and Nonnative Speakers
  • Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler: QUD-Driven Expectations in Discourse Interpretation
  • Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler: Grammatical and Coherence-Driven Biases in Pronoun Interpretation
  • Meredith Larson: Long-term effects of embedding on structural priming
  • Eyal Sagi, Brady Clark, and Stefan Kaufmann: Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis
  • Celina Troutman and Brady Clark: Person, Pragmatics, and Principle B.
  • Xiaoju Zheng and Janet Pierrehumbert: The effects of metrical prominence and position on duration perception