News & Updates

2009-2010:

We welcome student members Stephanie Shih, Jason Grafmiller,  Richard Futrell, Marisa Pineda, Nola Stephens, and Gayle MacElvain and faculty member Meghan Sumner to the Lab. 

Jen Hay visited the Lab on Jan 24-Feb 9 during her sabbatical leave from the University of Canterbury.  Jen collaborated with Lab members, updated our version of her ONZE Miner software, and gave a demo.

Shih, Grafmiller, Futrell, and Bresnan (2009) "Rhythm's role in predicting genitive and dative alternation choice in spoken English" was presented by Shih and Futrell at the DGfS conference Theme Session
on Rhythm Beyond the Word, in Osnabrück, Germany.

Joan Bresnan will be (non-resident) External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), collaborating with Benedikt Szmrecsányi  on the project "Predicting Syntax in Space and Time" from April 2009 to March 2010.