Graduate students Chelsea Miller and Jed Pizarro-Guevara traveled to the 29th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY) at the University of Florida this past weekend (March 3-5). Both presented posters that were co-authored with Matt Wagers.
Chelsea and Matt’s poster was entitled “Limited reactivation of syntactic structure in noun phrase ellipsis.” After returning home, she reported that:
This was the first conference I’ve presented at, and it was a really fun experience. I absorbed a lot of knowledge and also met a lot of great people, including some of our extended family of UCSC alums. I saw some great posters relevant to my work with Matt, on ellipsis, content-addressability, and attraction. There was even a poster exploring attraction and NPE like mine, though, interestingly, with different results. The authors and I talked and are looking forward to collaborating in the future. The only negative, which Jed and I kept telling ourselves was a “WHASC-worthy moment,” was that our return trip involved a crazy itinerary of two delays, one cancellation, a two hour cab ride, and then finally a two-layover flight back to California. We made it, finally, and I look happily back at our CUNY experience (travel aside).
Jed and Matt’s poster was called “The role of Tagalog verbal agreement in processing wh-dependencies” (available here), and he had this to report:
CUNY was a fabulous experience (modulo the flight to get there, and the sleep-deprivation, the delays and cancellation, and the two-hour cab ride just to get back to California)! I got to talk to Austronesianists like Maria Polinsky and former banana slug Eric Potsdam (PhD, 1996), and psycholinguists interested in “field psycholinguistics.” I also got to hang out with former banana slugs Ekaterina Kravtchenko (MA, 2013), Shayne Sloggett (BA, 2010) and Caroline Andrews (BA, 2011), Aaron White (BA, 2009), and other graduate students from UCSD, Rochester, Harvard, and UMD. Looking forward to CUNY 2017 (at MIT)!
