Chuspie Forever!

The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing took place (virtually) at Santa Cruz over Spring Break: March 24-26, 2022. Organized by an interdivisional committee of language scientists at UCSC, HSP brought together over 1100 registered participants from 15 timezones for 3 days of papers (27), posters (274) and invited talks (6). It featured presentations by numerous Banana Slugs, including Vishal Arvindam, Lalitha Balachandran, Richard Bibbs, Yaqing Cao, Maya Wax Cavallaro, Jack Duff, Jean E. Fox Tree, Matthew Kogan, Jess Law, Allison Nguyen, Stephanie Rich, Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani, Nick Van Handel, and Matt Wagers; and alums Caroline Andrews, Kirby Conrod, Steven Foley, Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, and Shayne Sloggett. Recordings of the spoken presentations can be found at https://tinyurl.com/hsp2022-public.

 

The spirit of (C)H(u)SP, lovingly but sporadically phonologized in the halls of Stevenson as tʃ{u,ʊ,ʌ}sp, was represented by our beloved mascot, Chuspie the Otter. Thankfully, it’s not too late to score some Chuspie merch (https://www.chuspieshop.com), such as the fashionable but controversial bucket hat. For a little history of the conference – and, particularly, its name – surf over to Arnold Zwicky’s blog (35 years of the CHSP | Arnold Zwicky’s Blog).