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Student Presentations

2009

Page Piccinini. Semantic contextual cues and listener adaptation to foreign-accented English. 157th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), workshop on Cross-Language Speech Perception.

Jiaxi Liu and Stefan Kaufmann. Comparing the perception of meaningful discourse structure in music and language. 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Budapest, Hungary, August.

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

Jiaxi Liu: Comparing the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure.

Page Piccinini: Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented English. (Best Poster Award)

Presentations at the 2009 LSA Meeting 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

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

2008

Rachel Baker, Ryan Doran, Meredith larson, Yaron McNabb, and Gregory Ward: Distinguishing between the SAID and the IMPLICATED: An Empirical Investigation. "In Search Of Meaning" (ISOM) Mid-west workshop on Semantics/Pragmatics, The Ohio State University, October 2008.

Matthew Berends and Stefan Kaufmann. Only and monotonicity in conditionals. Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart, Germany, September.

Ken Konopka and Janet Pierrehumbert. Vowels in contact: Mexican Heritage English in Chicago. Symposium about Language and Society at Austin (SALSA), Austin, TX, April.

Presentations at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the LSA in Chicago, IL:

Rachel Baker, Matthew Berends, Alex Djalali, Ryan Doran, Meredith Larson, and Yaron McNabb (with Gregory Ward). The Effects of Scale Type and Salience on the Interpretation of Scalar Implicature.

Matt Berends (with Stefan Kaufmann). The interpretation of only in conditional antecedents.

Robert Daland (with Jessica Maye and Matt Goldrick). Phonological context as a cue to phonetic identity.

Alex Djalali (with Janet Pierrehumbert and Brady Clark). The effect of focus on bridging inferences.

James German (with Janet Pierrehumbert). Conditions for Accenting Pronouns: Contrastivity Versus Attentional Shift.

Meredith Larson. The effect of context on structural priming.

Elisa Sneed German. Empirical evidence for the VP-internal subjects: indefinite NPs and non-isomorphism.

Elisa Sneed German (with Gregory Ward, Agus Gravano (Columbia University), Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), and Stefan Benus (Brown University)). The Effect of Semantic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty.

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2007

Rachel Baker, Matthew Berends, Alex Djalali, Ryan Doran, Meredith Larson, and Yaron McNabb (with Gregory Ward). Distinguishing the SAID from the IMPLICATED Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Experimental Pragmatics, Berlin, Germany.

Presentations at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA, November-Dezember:

Talks:

Melissa Baese, Ann Bradlow, and Beverly Wright. Enhancing learning on foreign-accent adaptation with a combination of active training and passive stimulus exposure.

Posters:

Rachel Baker and Ann Bradlow. Second mention reduction in Indian, English, and Korean.

Kristin van Engen. A methodological note on signal-to-noise ratios in speech research.

Melissa Baese and Matt Goldrick. Interactive effects in speech production: Feedback or perceptual monitoring?  48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November.

Presentations at the 13th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Columbus OH, October:

Talks:

Melissa Baese, Ann Bradlow and Beverly Wright. Enhancing learning on foreign-accent adaptation with a combination of active training and passive stimulus exposure.

Caroline Engstler and Matt Goldrick. Lexical properties modulate phonological attrition: Evidence from German.

Nattalia Paterson and Matt Goldrick. Doctor Jekyll and Senhor Hyde: The Two Faces of the Cognate Effect.

Posters:

Kristen Van Engen, Rachel Baker, Arim Choi, Midam Kim, and Ann Bradlow. Development of the Wildcat corpus of native- and foreign-accented English.

Matthew Berends and Matt Goldrick. Lexical properties facilitate L2 phonetic processing in bilingual speakers.

Midam Kim, Ann Bradlow, and Sid Horton. Phonetic convergence between native and non-native speakers.

Posters presented at the 4th International Workshop on Language Production in Münster, Germany:

Melissa Baese (with Tim Poepsel and Matt Goldrick). Moving new words into the neighborhood: A preliminary report.

Caroline Engstler (with Matt Goldrick). Lexically conditioned phonetic variation across languages.

Kristen Syrett (with Jeff Lidz). Not All Adjectives Are the Same: Children's (and Adult's) Knowledge of Semantic Differences among Gradable Adjectives. Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA, March.

Jennifer Alexander (with Patrick Wong and Ann Bradlow). On the interaction between speech-pitch processing and music-pitch processing. Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Cambridge, UK, May.

Celina Troutman (with Brady Clark and Matt Goldrick). Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change. 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA , February.

Presentations at the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA:

Lewis Gebhardt. Bare Nouns.

Jessica Hicks, Jeffrey Lidz, and Jessica Maye. The role of function words in infants' syntactic categorization of novel words.

Meredith Larson, Rachel Baker, Matthew J R Berends, Alex Djalali, Ryan Doran, Yaron McNabb, and Gregory Ward. Distinguishing among Contextually-Determined Aspects of Utterance Meaning: An Empirical Investigation.

Kristen Syrett. Can infants use adverbs to learn about adjectives?

Celina Troutman, Brady Clark, and Matt Goldrick. Variation and social networks during language change.

Kristin Van Engen. Pronouns in coordination: effects of modality, grammatical weight, and information structure.

Joshua Viau. Asymmetric c-command within the dative verb phrase at age four.

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2006

Kristen Syrett. Can Infants Use Adverbs to Learn about Adjectives?First annual Midwest Workshop on Semantics.

Presentations at the 2006 Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology in Iowa City, IA:

Melissa Baese (with Matt Goldrick, Albert Costa and Iva Ivanova): Phonetic differences between lexical categories in Spanish.

Rachel Baker (with Ann Bradlow): The interaction of factors influencing hyper- and hypo-articulation.

Celina Troutman (with Brady Clark and Matt Goldrick): Variation and social networks during language change.

Joshua Viau (with Jeff Lidz and Julien Musolino). Priming of abstract logical representations in 4-year-olds. 31st meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Jennifer Alexander (with Patrick C.M. Wong and Ann R. Bradlow). Lexical Tone Perception in Musicians and Non-musicians. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Complexity Conference. Evanston, IL.

Ken Konopka. Local variability in the Northern Cities Shift. American Dialect Society, Chicago, IL, November.

Presentations at LabPhon X in Paris, France, in June 2006:

Melissa Baese and Matt Goldrick. Lexical effects on phonetic variation independent of phonotactics.

Presentations and posters at the 2006 LSA Summer Meeting in East Lansing, MI:

Josh Viau: Introducing English [IZ]-Infixation: Snoop Dogg and bey-[IZ]-ond.

Rachel Baker: Forces behind second mention reduction.

H. Ross Baker (with Stefan Kaufman): Morphological complexity & similarity: Arguments from latent semantic analysis.

Presentations at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society:

Kristen Syrett, Jeff Lidz, and Chris Kennedy. Scalar Structure and the Semantic Representations of Gradable Adjectives in Child Language.

Yongeun Lee: Statistical Regularities in the Distribution of Consonants and Vowels in Korean Lexicon - Their Implications for the Internal Structure of Korean Syllables.

Presentations at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the LSA in Albuquerque, NM:

Ann Bunger and Jeff Lidz. Constraints on two-year-olds extensions of novel causative verbs.

Jessica Hicks and Jeff Lidz. On the role of function words in lexical access and syntactic processing.

Meredith Larson. Unraveling Thai binding: Principle C violation in Thai.

Josh Viau. Evidence for early lexical decomposition of dative verbs in English child corpora.

Brady Clark, Matt Goldrick, and Ken Konopka. Language change as a source of word order correlations.

Presentations at "Games and Decisions in Pragmatics II," Berlin, Germany:

James German. The Cost of Prosodic Markedness as a Rationale for the Placement and Interpretation of Accents. Games and Decisions in Pragmatics.

James German, Eyal Sagi, Brady Clark, Stefan Kaufmann, and Min-Joo Kim. The Role of Hearers' Beliefs in the Interpretation of Logical Connectives.

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2005

Alexander, J. A., Wong, P.C.M., & Bradlow, A.R. Lexical Tone Perception in Musicians and Non-musicians. Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech - 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8.

Presentations and posters at ASA in Minneapolis, MN:

Carlson, C., J. German and J. Pierrehumbert. Allophonic Reassignment in Dialect Adaptation.

Konopka, K., Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. Variability in the clear speech intelligibility advantage.

Van Heukelem, K. Tuning in and tuning out: Speech perception in native- and foreign-talker babble.

Presentations at NELS 35 in Amherst, MA:

Kristen Syrett and Jeff Lidz. Learning scope economy: Why children will QR out of a tensed embedded clause but adults won't.

Meredith Larson. The Thais that bind: Apparent principle C violations in Thai.

Presentations at BUCLD 30 in Boston, MA:

Erin McLaddon and Jeff Lidz. Reconstruction effects in child language.

Ann Bunger and Jeff Lidz. Constrained flexibility in the acquisition of causative verbs.

Josh Viau. GIVE = CAUSE + HAVE/GO: Evidence for early lexical decomposition of dative verbs in English child corpora.

Josh Viau, Jeff Lidz and Julien Musolino. Pragmatics and the role of experience in overcoming isomorphism. Annual Meeting of the LSA, Oakland, CA, January.

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2004

Kristen Syrett, Evan Bradley, Chris Kennedy and Jeff Lidz. Shifting Standards: Children's understanding of gradable adjectives. GALANA, Honululu, HI, December; 2005 LSA Meeting, Oakland, CA.

Kristen Syrett and Jeff Lidz. Children want to access every interpretation adults do. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS) 35, Storrs, CT, October; Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 29, Boston, MA, November; Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALANA), Honululu, HI, December.

Elisa Sneed. The role of input in the acquisition of generic NPs. BUCLD 29, Boston, MA, November.

Yongeun Lee. On the Singular [+Specific] Reading of WH-Doublets in Korean. 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, November.

Elisa Sneed. The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure. 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, April.

Erin McMahon Leddon, Jeffrey Lidz, and Janet Pierrehumbert. Suprasegmental cues to meaning in child-directed speech. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Jessica Peterson Hicks, Jeffrey Lidz, and Janet Pierrehumbert. The role of function words in lexical access and syntactic processing. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Yongeun Lee. On the role of pauses and intonation in the interpretation of sentence-medial parenthetical adverbs in English. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Ralph Rose. Syntactic and semantic prominence in discourse. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Elisa Sneed. Structural Focus and Prosodic Focus in Hungarian. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Anderson, Catherine and Katy Carlson. Prosodic Phrasing in DO/SC and Closure Sentences. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Anderson, Catherine. Context and the Real-Time Comprehension of Scope Ambuguity. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Anderson, Catherine. The Price of Inverse Scope: Processing Evidence for Scope Economy. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January.

Bent, Tessa, Ann Bradlow and Bruce Smith. Production and Perception of a Temporal Contrast by Native and Non-Native Speakers. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York City, NY, May.

Bunger, Ann. Syntactic Bootstrapping and the Internal Structure of Causative Events. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, France, February.

Bunger, Ann. Two-Year-Olds Have Complex Representation for Causatives. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January.

German, James. Mapping Focus to Phonology: Stranded Prepositions and Accent Placement. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January.

Lee, Yongeun. On the Role of Pauses and Intonation in the Interpretation of Sentence-Medial Parenthetical Adverbs in English. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

McMahon-Leddon, Erin, Jeffrey Lidz and Janet Pierrehumbert. Suprasegmental Cues to Meaning in Child-Directed Speech. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Peterson-Hicks, Jessica. The Role of Function Words in Lexical Access and Syntactic Processing. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Rose, Ralph. Syntactic and Semantic Prominence in Discourse. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Sneed, Elisa. Structural Focus and Prosodic Focus in Hungarian. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, College Park, MD, March.

Sneed, Elisa. The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, April.

Viau, Joshua Baird. On the Production and Perception of Derived French Clusters Following Schwa Deletion. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January.

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