Dillon, Staub, Levy and Clifton in Language

Dillon, Staub, Levy and Clifton's paper, "Which noun phrases is the verb supposed to agree with? Object agreement in American English", has been accepted for publication in Language. 

Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics edited by Jeff Lidz, William Snyder, and UMass faculty Joe Pater, will be appearing in May, and its cover and table of contents can now be seen on the OUP website.

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The volume contains chapters by UMass faculty Gaja Jarosz and Tom Roeper (co-authored with Jill de Villiers), and alumna Anne-Michelle Tessier.

Dillon in print

Brian Dillon, Wing-Yee Chow and Ming Xiang's paper, "The relationship between anaphor features and antecedent retrieval: Comparing Mandarin ziji and ta-ziji," has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology. 

Language. Cognition and Neuroscience issue on "Cross-linguistic Psycholinguistics"

The special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience on “Cross-linguistic Psycholinguistics,” edited by our own Alice Harris with Elisabeth Nordcliffe and Florian Jaeger has appeared. The issue has thirteen papers on language production and comprehension with a focus on understudied languages. You can learn more here.

Keine and Bhatt is accepted to NLLT

“Interpretive Verb Clusters,” a paper by Stefan Keine and Rajesh Bhatt, has been accepted to Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Congratulations!

Tom Ernst in Language

Congratulations to Tom Ernst, whose paper “Modification of Stative Predicates” has been accepted for publication in Language.

Overfelt in print!

Jason Overfelt has had two papers recently accepted for publication. One is “Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward DP-Movement,” which will appear in Lingua, and the other is “Rightward DP-Movement Licenses Parasitic Gaps: A reply to Postal 1994,” which will appear in Linguistic Inquiry.

Dillon in Frontiers in Psychology

Brian Dillon’s paper “Teasing apart encoding interference and retrieval interference in the processing of anaphors,” as just been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology. Congratulations to Brian, and his co-authors: L. Jäger, L. Benz, J. Roesler and S. Vasishth.

Keine and Bhatt in print

Stefan Keine and Rajesh Bhatt’s paper, co-authored with Trupti Nisar, “Complete and defective agreement in Kutchi” has appeared in the latest issue of Linguistic Variation. 

Tracy Conner and Nick LaCara in print!

The papers presented at the 2013 Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft meeting in Potsdam have appeared in a volume by de Gruyter Mouton called “Parenthesis and Ellipsis.” Tracy Conner’s “Heads must be heard: Overtness and ellipsis licensing” and Nick LaCara’s “Discourse inversion and deletion in as parenthetical” are inside. Congratulations Tracy and Nick!

Stefan Keine's paper appears

Stefan Keine’s paper “Differential argument encoding by impoverishment,” co-authored with Gereon Müller has now appeared in the volume “Scales and Hierarchies,” edited by Ina Bornkessel-Schleswsky, Andrej Malchukov and Marc Richards.

Congratulations Stefan!

Kristine Yu in print

Congratulations to Kristine Yu, whose paper “The experimental state of mind in elicitation: illustrations from tonal fieldwork” has appeared in the volume, How To Study a Tone Language, edited by Steven Bird and Larry Hyman.

Sang-Im Lee-Kim appears in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Sang-Im Lee-Kim’s article "Revisiting Mandarin “apical vowels”: An articulatory and acoustic study" has appeared in the latest volume of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Go here for more information.

Cable's paper appears in Language

Seth Cable’s paper “Distributive Numerals and Distance Distributivity in Tlingit (and Beyond)” has appeared in the latest issue of Language.  Congratulations Seth!

Yu in Phonology

“The word-level prosody in Samoan,” has just appeared in Phonology. Get a peek here. One of its authors is our own Kristine Yu.

Dillon is at the Frontiers in Psychology

A paper by Brian Dillon and colleagues has appeared in Frontiers in Psychology. It examines the memory retrieval operations employed in sentence comprehension by studying how sentences involving the Mandarin reflexive “ziji” are processed on-line. The paper is called “The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese,” and you can view an abstract here.

Kristine Yu in JASA

Kristine Yu’s  article, "The role of creaky voice in Cantonese tonal perception)," has been published online in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol.136, No.3). The article can be accessed through the issue's table of contents here.

Congratulations Kristine!

Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

WHISC is pleased to announce the publication by Springer of “Recursion: Complexity in Cognition,” edited by Tom Roeper and Peggy Speas. It collects some of the papers delivered to the recursion conference hosted by UMass in 2009, including papers by UMass alumni Eva Juarros and Bart Hollebrandse, as well as Tom Roeper and Jill deVilliers.

Volume in memory of A.E. Kibrik

There will be a memorial event on Wednesday, March 26, at Moscow State University celebrating the 75th birthday of the late A. E. Kibrik. The program will include presentations of a new book “Language. Constants. Variables. To the Memory of Aleksandr Evgen’evich Kibrik,” which includes articles by Vladimir Borschev and Alice Harris.

Dillon in Compass

Brian Dillon’s paper  'Syntactic memory in the comprehension of reflexive dependencies: an overview" has been accepted for publication in Language and Linguistics Compass.

Congratulations Brian!