CUNY 2015

While most of us take a well-earned end of quarter break, Adrian Brasoveanu, Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt and Matt Wagers head south to give presentations at this year’s CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing to be held at the University of Southern California in LA. Matt and Scarlett will present jointly on Grammatical Person, Pronouns and the Subject-Object Asymmetry in Relative Clauses, while Matt will be involved in two additional presentations — one jointly with Julie Franck of the University of Geneva on a Speed Accuracy Trade-Off study of agreement attraction errors (Hierarchical Structure and Memory Retrieval Mechanisms in Attraction: an SAT Study) and one with Sandra Villata, Brian McElree and Julie Franck on the Temporal Dynamics of Weak Islands. Adrian meanwhile will present joint work with Jakub Dotlačil on Processing Pluralities: Syntax and the Lexicon. Alongside these current members of the community, recent PhD alumnus Matt Tucker (now at NYU Abu Dhabi) will give two presentations at the meeting–Resumption ameliorates but does not repair island violations: Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic acceptability (with Ali Idrissi, Jon Sprouse and Diogo Almeida) and Plural Type Matters for on-line Processing (with Idrissi and Almeida). In addition, undergrad alumnus Shayne Sloggett, now a graduate student at UMass Amherst, will be involved in two presentations: one with Brian Dillon (Interference in reflexives is the result of a logophoric interpretation) and one with Dillon, Charles Clifton and Lyn Frazier (Not all Relative Clauses Interfere Equally in Filler-Gap Processing).