Linguistics
Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics.
Mina Hirzel defends her dissertation, "Acquiring Constraints on Wh-Movement." The committee is Jeff Lidz, Ellen Lau, Norbert Hornstein, Alexander Williams and Yi Ting Huang.
Zoom: go.umd.edu/
Knowledge and processing of sociolinguistic variation in verb morphology in US English
Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/my/jessicamendes
Asymmetries in presupposition projection: processing and acquisition
Abstract: Presuppositions triggered in the right arguments of binary connectives such as if and or are sometimes inherited wholesale by the sentence, as illustrated in (1). Sometimes, however, the sentence as a whole presupposes something weaker, e.g. (2).
Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/
Constraints on theories of language processing
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7141237857
Syntactic structure building: lessons from periphrasis
Please join us to hear about research that undergraduates in the Linguistics department have been working on this semester! Drop in at the Language Science Center in H.J.Patterson Hall, or join by zoom (see below for individual poster links)!
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98806584197?pwd=SXBWOHE1cU9adFFKUmN2UVlwUEJXdz09
Understanding Automaticity in Language
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