We have already had quite a few of our lab members (and PIs Alan and Cristina)  represent at conferences this semester! Congratulations on their successful presentations:

• 9/6/2013:  Jessica Gamache, Mina Hirzel, and Kyle Latack presented their talk, “Noun categories in children’s production of noun-noun compounds” at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference in Oldenburg, Germany.

• 10/5/2013:  Adam Liter and Cristina Schmitt (co-authored by Chris Heffner) presented their talk, “Inclusive plural interpretations depend on grammaticalized number: An argument from artificial language learning” at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification at the University of Massachusetts.

• 10/18/2013: Ai Taniguchi (co-authored by Yui Totsuka, Cristina Schmitt, and Alan Munn) presented her poster, “Isn’t it not cute?: Variation in the interpretation of Japanese double negation by age” at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 42 in Pittsburgh, PA.

We have a number of projects going on in the lab right now, including topics in:

• Artificial language learning
• Compounds
• Passive and light verbs
• Vietnamese nouns
• Telicity
• Corpus extract
• Japanese

Stay tuned for research updates!