Don’t miss out on what’s happening this week at USC Linguistics: student and faculty talks/posters at ELM
Experiments in Linguistic Meaning at UPenn, 09/16-18
Some students and faculty are presenting at the first ELM conference held at UPenn:
- Jesse Storbeck and Elsi Kaiser are giving a talk entitled ” Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships” on Thursday (09/17). Click on the title to get the slides.
- Sarah Lee and Elsi Kaiser are presenting a poster entitled “Real-world event knowledge modulates the use of tense cues in event comprehension” on on Friday (09/18) at 1-2.30pm. Click on the title to get the slides.
- Alexis Wellwood, Deniz Rudin and Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (USC Philosophy) are presenting a poster entitled “‘Being tall compared to’ compared to ‘being tall’ and ‘being taller on Friday (09/18) at 1-2.30pm. Click on the title to get the slides.
*About the conference*: The conference is dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning broadly construed, with a focus on theoretical issues in semantics and pragmatics, their interplay with other components of the grammar, their relation to language processing and acquisition, as well as their connections to human cognition and computation.” Registration is free!
Alexis Wellwood and Sarah Lee at Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar at Oxford (UK), 09/15-16
Alexis presented at the Oxford workshop, Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar— the pre-recorded short talk can be viewed here. The title of the talk was “Exploring the analogy between objects and events” and is joint work with Susan Hespos (NU) and Lance Rip (UN). According to Alexis, “the conference used an unusual format where my variety of talk (which would have been a poster had it been in person) was to be viewed before the session, and then there was 1 hour of “shared discussion” for 3 talks”.
Sarah gave a talk entitled “Does hitting a window break it?: Going beyond lexicalized event structure during sentence processing” (joint work with Elsi Kaiser).
Hi! I’m Jessica. I’m from and currently reside in Northern Virginia (right by Washington, DC), so catch me sleeping in when the west coasters have early classes! I got a BA from William & Mary in 2018. W&M actually just became the first school in Virginia to offer a bachelor’s degree in linguistics (until now, it’s been “interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in linguistics,” which means the same thing, but just makes me sound annoying), but I was two years too late! Broadly, my research focuses on phonetics and its interfaces with phonology and psycholinguistics. My honors thesis focused on perception of stress by second language speakers, though I plan to move into production and away from L2 acquisition. I would particularly like to work with clinical populations. Though I’m a p-side gal through and through, I’m excited to learn more about other fields of linguistics, too!
Hi, I’m Hailin Hao, and I come from a small town in the center of China. I received my BA in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I’m mostly interested in sentence processing, syntax and pragmatics. Recently I started to think about how communicative efficiency and human cognitive constraints have shaped our grammars and grammar universals. Outside of linguistics, I enjoy biking (as everybody else does in the Netherlands!), travelling, doing yoga and meditation, and watching old movies and series over and over again. I’m very excited about my new research life at USC Ling and to explore Los Angeles, though it’s a shame that I cannot join you now. I’m looking forward to meeting you all next year!
Hi, all!
