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Jabberwocky Words In Linguistics Workshop Feb 11-12 UMass & UniBuc

Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics:

Making Sense through Nonsense. Making Sense of Nonsense.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

UMass and University of Bucharest Team up for Recursion Conference

Recursion Across Languages. The Intricacies of Babel. June 1 and 2, 2021 Conference Poster

The University of Bucharest and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will team up this June 1-2 for two days filled with workshops and current research on recursion. Organized by Adina Camelia Bleotu of Unibuc and Deborah Foucault of UMass, the online workshop entitled “Recursion Across Languages: The Intricacies of Babel” aims at bringing into discussion recent theoretical and experimental research on recursive structures across languages. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Tom Roeper from the LInguisitics Department and Director of the Language Acquisition Lab UMass Amherst.

UMass at BUCLD 40

Michael Clauss and Jeremy Hartmann will give a presentation entitled “Syntactic Cues in Adjective Learning” at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) on Friday, November 13 at 10 am.

Barbara Pearson, Tom Roeper, and Anca Sevcenco will also present a poster at BUCLD on Friday entitled “The Acquisition of Recursive Locative Prepositional Phrases and Relative Clauses in Child English on Friday.

Pearson and Roeper at Rutgers

Barbara Pearson will present a joint paper with Tom Roeper entitled "Cross-linguistic Ambiguity of Quantified Expressions: Implications for Mathematics Teaching and Testing of Bilingual Students" at the Tenth International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB10), conveniently hosted by Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 20 to 24. En route to NJ, she will attend the NSF sponsored workshop at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan on "Bilingualism and Executive Function: An Interdisciplinary Approach," May 18 and 19.

Roeper and Pearson get NSF

An NSF Grant titled “Science Live” Workshop on the Acquisition of Recursion Across Languages” ( $29000) has been awarded to Tom Roeper (in collaboration with Bart Hollebrandse and Barbara Pearson) to work on a museum exhibit and related experimentation on recursion (based on the work of Ana Perez, Terue Nakato, Luiz Amaral, Jon Nelson and Anca Sevcenco). The museums include the Dutch National Science Museum local Massachusetts museums and then others. The project will engage graduate and undergraduate collaborators as well.

UMass at UUSLAW

The University of Connecticut Storrs hosts UUSLAW (UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) on Saturday, April 18. UMass is represented by:

Mike Clauss, who gives the paper “Generalized Move-Wh in Acquisition: Free Relatives and Embedded Wh"

Amanda Rizun and Jeremy Hartman, who give the paper “The `Question Under Discussion’ and the Interpretation of Quantifiers."

Andie Faber “Assigning and Producing Grammatical Gender on Novel Nouns in L1 and L2 Spanish."

Jill Thorson speaks on March 24

Jill Thorson (Northeastern University) will give a talk entitled "The development of intonation and information structure in early speech perception and production" on Tuesday, March 24th at 5:30 in 225 Herter Hall. An abstract follows.

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Martin Hackl on the Acquisition of "Only"

Martin Hackl (MIT) gave the department colloquium on Friday, Nov. 21. The title of his talk was: On the Acquisition and processing of “only”: Question Answer Congruence, Scalar Presupposition, and the Structure of ALT(S).

Christodoulou speaks at LARC

Christiana Christodoulou, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave a talk at LARC on Nov. 21.

Pearson and Roeper at ASHA

Barbara Zurer Pearson and Tom Roeper had a seminar at the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) annual meeting November 22 in Orlando.

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