SLUGS AT CUNY

At the end of winter quarter, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Matt Wagers, and Adrian Brasoveanu traveled north along with an entourage of Santa Cruz psycholinguists (Margaret Kroll, Steven Foley, Nick Van Handel, Jake Vincent, and Netta Ben-Meir) for the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at UC Davis. Jed presented a poster co-authored with Matt Wagers entitled “Not all filler-gap dependencies are perceived alike: Evidence from Tagalog”. Meanwhile, Adrian presented joint work with Jakub Dotlačil: both a poster called “Modeling Lexical Access in ACT-R” as well as a talk on “A cognitively realistic left-corner parser with visual and motor interfaces“. Several former Slugs also attended, including Shayne Sloggett (BA, ‘10), Caroline Andrews (BA, ‘11), Adam Morgan (MA, ‘13), Ekaterina Kravtchenko (MA, ‘13), and Chelsea Miller (BA, ’14, MA, ’16). On-leave faculty Amanda Rysling graced CUNY with her presence, and organized a joint UMass-UCSC dinner. Delicious Indian food was had, and many bottles of wine, consumed.