Category: Student News

MATT TUCKER DEFENDS DISSERTATION

Matt Tucker successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on Thursday June 6th before a committee consisting of Sandy Chung, Jorge Hankamer and Jim McCloskey. Matt’s dissertation is on the syntax of Maltese and the department was honored to welcome representatives of the Maltese community in the Bay Area to the dissertation defense, including the Honorable Louis J. Vella, who is Honorary Consul General of Malta in San Francisco for Northern California and the States of Nevada, Oregon and Hawaii.

Matt has also now accepted an appointment as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at NYU: Abu Dhabi. Matt will be working directly with Diogo Almeida as a part of the NYU Neuroscience of Language team, which includes Alec Marantz, Liina Pylkkanen and David Poeppel. The Abu Dhabi group focuses on ways to leverage the rich linguistic environment of the United Arab Emirates to study questions about linguistic knowledge and language processing, with a particular focus on the linguistics of the Semitic languages.

SEVERAL MORE DEFENSES

Spring is a season of many defenses!

Congratulations to Nate Arnett, who successfully passed his qualifying exam with his project “Subject encodings and retrieval interference, evaluating the cost”. The committee was Adrian Brasoveanu, Sandy Chung, Matt Wagers (Chair), and Eve Zyzik (Outside Member). Nate moves to all-but-dissertation (ABD) status!

Sara Cantor successfully defended her qualifying paper and master’s thesis, “Ungrammatical Double-Island Sluicing as a Diagnostic of Left-Branch Positioning”. The committee was Pranav Anand, Sandy Chung, and Jorge Hankamer (Chair). Congratulations!

Tommy Denby successfully defended his master’s thesis, “The Filtering Listener: Dispersion in Exemplar Theory”. The committee was Pranav Anand, Grant McGuire (Co-Chair), and Jaye Padgett (Co-Chair). Congratulations!

Congratulations to Adam Morgan for successfully defending his qualifying paper and master’s thesis, “Bridging the Gap between Production and Judgment of English Resumptive Pronouns. The committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Jim McClosekey, and Matt Wagers (Chair). This project has been accepted as a poster at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference this September (AMLaP 2013) in Aix-Marseille Université.

Congratulations to Peter Fabian, who passed his phonology qualifying paper “Iambic-trochaic reversal in Cusco Quechua” on June 6. The committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Armin Mester (chair), and Jaye Padgett.

Clara Sherley-Appel successfully defended her qualifying paper entitled, “Multimodal cue integration in speech processing”. Her QP committee consisted of Adrian Brasoveanu, Grant McGuire (chair), and Jaye Padgett. Congratulations!

ALLAN SCHWADE’S TRAVELS

Allan Schwade presented a talk at Stanford’s p-interest entitled “Non-Grammatical Gender and the Lexicon”. Then Allan joined Grant at the International Congress of Acoustics 2013 and gave a poster on “What Palatalized Consonants Can Tell Us about Loanword Adaptation”.

OLIVER NORTHRUP SPEAKS AT SEMPRAG

On May 29th Oliver Northrup spoke at Stanford’s semantics discussion group SemPrag. His talk, titled “Conflicting bias in high negation polar questions,” was based on an earlier talk he gave here at the Unofficial Graduate student Get-together on Semantics and pragmatics (UGGS). The abstract for that talk is here.

CONGRATULATIONS TO KARL DEVRIES

Karl DeVries has successfully defended his first qualifying paper “A Segmental Semantics for Modified Numerals and their Interaction with ‘Already'” on Thursday, May 30. His QP committee consisted of Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu (Chair), and Donka Farkas. Congratulations, Karl!

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