WAGERS AND PENDLETON AT CUNY 2014

Meanwhile, Matt Wagers and Emily Pendleton travelled to CUNY 2014, the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio to give research presentations. Matt gave a poster on Relative clause processing and competing pressures in an agreement-rich language, which presented some of the results emerging from the NSF-funded research project he is engaged in in collaboration with Sandy Chung and Manuel F. Borja. Emily presented collaborative work that she and Matt have been engaged in on Animacy and the active construction of filler-gap dependencies in relative clauses. Also presenting at the conference was alumnus Chris Potts of Stanford, who gave an invited talk on Characterizing expressive and social meaning with large corpora as part of the Special Session on Experimental Pragmatics. To learn more about all of these papers, have a look at the abstract booklet for the conference, which is available here.