ROBERTS IN ESTONIA

UCSC PhD student Tom Roberts spent part of a productive summer overseas. he writes,

“In addition to working on various linguisticky projects here and there in Santa Cruz, I spent the month of August in Estonia chowing down on buckwheat and following up on prior experimental work on the discourse effects of biased questions in Estonian. At the beginning of September, Margaret and I presented joint work on the semantics and pragmatics of of course” at Sinn und Bedeutung in Barcelona. We also drove with recent PhD grad and fellow SuB-attendee Kelsey Kraus to the tiny but beautiful principality of Andorra, where it turns out it is very unusual to order coffee with your lunch.”