AmLaP23 Update

AMLaP23 took place from August 31st to September 2, with many current and former Banana Slugs in attendance. It was hosted by the Basque Center for Brain and Language in San Sebastián-Donostia, whose mountain-hemmed, fog-suffused shores were eerily reminiscent of [Matt’s] home. There were six presentations from current students and faculty:

• Max Kaplan and Amanda Rysling, “Is phonotactic repair of onset clusters modulated by listener expectations?”
• Jack Duff, Pranav Anand and Amanda Rysling, “No cost for canceling causal inferences in the comprehension of short English narratives”
• Vishal Arvindam, Maxime Tulling and Ailís Cournane, “Representing non-actuality in the online processing of negative and possibility utterances”
• Matthew Kogan and Matthew Wagers, “Maintaining Syntactic Positions and Thematic Roles in Memory: Evidence from Ditransitive Alternations in English”
• Lalitha Balachandran, Stephanie Rich and Matthew Wagers, “Domain-sensitivity of sentence memory and (lack of) temporal contiguity effects”
• Vishal Arvindam and Matthew Wagers, “The time course of processing anti-local anaphors in Telugu supports the Local Search Hypothesis”

All of their abstracts can be found here.

We also ran into many former slugs, like Kelsey Sasaki (Ph.D. 2021, now Junior Research Fellow at Oxford; presenting joint work with Matt Husband, Daniel Altshuler and Runyi Yao) and Jakub Dotlačil (Assitant Professor at Utrecht). And Professor Liv Hoversten from Psychology, who completed a postdoc at BCBL, was also present.