Weekly Digest, 3/3/23

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Song defends dissertation

Jina Song successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Dynamics of multiple pronoun resolution”, on Feb. 27, 2023. Congratulations, Dr. Song!

Jina and her committee.

Lu receives Doctoral Dissertation NSF

Congratulations are in order for Helen Lu (Psychology)! Helen’s work on “The Effects of Language Experience on Statistical Learning in Infants and Adults” with PI Toby Mintz received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the Linguistics Program at NSF.

Inked ✍️

Jun Lyu and Elsi Kaiser. 2023. “Multiple constraints modulate the processing of Chinese reflexives in discourse.” Glossa Psycholinguistics. Link to paper.

Upcoming Events

Save the date

We will have a few weeks off from departmental colloquiua, but mark your calendar for a colloquium by Judith Degen (Stanford) on April 17. Details in a few weeks.

Department Events

• Monday, March 6 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Khalil Iskarous on “Cepstral Phonetics”

• Tuesday, March 7 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: practice poster session for Human Sentence Processing (HSP)

• S-Side Story: no meeting next week

• MeaningLab: no meeting next week