2022

June

January

  • Andy and María presented their poster “Determining the boundaries of Agent-hood: The role of Control-asymmetry” (abstract) at the Agency and Intentions Language 2 Conference (Second Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop) on 1/14.

2021

May

  • Andy defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Linguistic variation from cognitive variability: the case of English have” to the Linguistics Department at Yale University.

2020

September

  • María was profiled as a part of “Firsts and Founders in the FAS: A Series in Celebration of 50WomenAtYale150” as the first woman and the first person of color to receive tenure in the Linguistics Department. Her profile can be found here.
  • Martín and María presented their paper titled ‘Meaning change from an experimental perspective: two self paced reading studies on the Spanish Imperfective domain’ at ELM (Experiments in Linguistic Meaning) 2020 on 9/18.

August

  • new article collection, co-edited by María (along with Anastasia Smirnova, Petra Schumacher, and Ray Jackendoff) launched in Frontiers. This article collection is for high-level, data-grounded work in linguistics seeking to bridge linguistic, cognitive and computational approaches to linguistic structure and the architecture that supports it.

May

  • Martín published a chapter “Negation and the Brain: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications” in The Oxford Handbook of Negation (link to online version). This was in collaboration with researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Buenos Aires, the Université Laval, and the INM-1 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Their chapter investigates the possible brain bases for negation by reporting an experiment on individuals with Broca’s aphasia.

March

  • Andy, Catalina, Martín, Jisu, Nanyan, Garima, and María presented their poster “Individuals’ “autistic” traits predict variability in sentence comprehension performance: Linguistic
    components of the Autism Quotient questionnaire” (link) at the 33rd Annual CUNY
    Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst,
    MA.

January

2019

December

October

  • We hosted the “Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change” workshop at Yale University. The booklet with the schedule of events and further information can be found here.

May

  • Martín Fuchs won a student award for his presentations at the 32nd CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, held at Boulder, Colorado this past March 29-31, 2019.
  • Martín and María presented their work at the 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), at the University of Georgia, in Athens, GA. Their talk, titled “Grounding grammaticalization paths in contextual constraints: The categoricalization-to-generalization process in three varieties of Spanish”, analyzes the contextual conditions that play a role in the extension of the Present Progressive marker to the habitual reading of the Imperfective in Castilian, Rioplatense, and Mexican Altiplano Spanish. Click here to read the talk’s abstract.

March

January

2018

November

  • Martín gave an invited talk titled “El dominio del Imperfectivo en español: Un paradigma experimental para la variación y el cambio semántico. Departamento de Lengua Española y Lingüística General, UNED. Madrid, Spain.
  • Martín gave an invited talk titled “An experimental approach to semantic variation and change: The Imperfective domain in three dialectal varieties of Spanish. Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU). Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
  • Martín gave an invited talk titled “Some communicative and cognitive pressures at play in grammaticalization paths: The case of the Progressive-to-Imperfective shift in Spanish. Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven, Belgium.

October

September

  • Martín gave an invited talk titled “Variación sincrónica y cambio semántico en el aspecto imperfecto del español: de la categoricalización a la generalización, at El Colegio de México in Mexico City, Mexico.

July

  • Andy, María and Ashwini Deo (The Ohio State University) presented a poster titled  “Real-Time Roots of Meaning Change: Electrophysiology Reveals the Contextual-Modulation Processing Basis of Synchronic Variation in the Location-Possession Domain” at the “Psycholinguistic, Sociolinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning” workshop at The University of Chicago Center in Paris.

June

  • Andy, María and Sara attended the one-week course “Exploring the Human Connectome” organized by The Human Connectome Project at Oxford University.

April

  • Yao-ying started a Postdoctoral Research Position in the Neuropsychology Department at the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities in Tokyo. Kudos for this achievement, Yao-ying!
  • Martín, María and Ashwini Deo (The Ohio State University) gave a talk titled “Communicative and Cognitive Principles at Work: Semantic Variation and Change in the Spanish Progressive” for the “TALV: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation” workshop at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
  • Andy, María and Ashwini Deo (The Ohio State University) gave a talk titled “Real-Time Roots of Meaning Change: Electrophysiology Reveals the Contextual-Modulation Processing Basis of Synchronic variation in the Location-Possession Domain” for the “TALV: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation” workshop at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
  • María, Sara and Fraibet Aveledo (University of Reading) gave a talk titled “Children’s Acquisition of Copula Use: Production/Comprehension Differences in a Developmental Path” for the “TALV: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation” workshop at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
  • Sara and María gave a talk titled “Variation in Spanish Copula Use Across Dialects” for the “Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS)”  at Queens College, CUNY.

March

January

2017

October

September

August

July

  • Yao-ying gave a talk titled “Comprehending underspecified meaning: Resolving ambiguity by contextual and conceptual search” at the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 19th Annual International Conference (JSLS2017) in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Yao-ying gave a talk, “Context and semantic composition of multiple dimension representations in real-time comprehension” and present a poster, “A model of semantic linguistic composition under conditions of morphosyntactic underspecification: the case of eventive iteration construal” at the IEICE Workshop of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language (IEICE-TL) in Tokyo, Japan.

March

February

  • María gave a talk titled “Eventive iteration construal during real-time comprehension, its neurological underpinnings and the grammar-meaning connection” at LingLangLunch at Brown University (Providence, RI).
  • Sara, María, and Ashwini presented a poster titled “Copular Variation as a Gateway into their Lexico-Semantic Differences” at the “CSLI Workshop: Bridging Computational and Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Meaning” at Stanford University (Stanford, CA).

2016

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August

May

April

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February

2015

November

  • Yao-Ying gave a talk titled ‘The structured individual hypothesis for processing aspectual verbs’ at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS 2015) at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
  • Sara also gave a talk titled ‘Processing Spanish copulas: the influence of contextual modulation’ at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS 2015) at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
  • The lab attended the Hornucopia workshop at Yale University (New Haven, CT).

October

August

  • Sara presented a poster titled ‘Changes in the distributional patterns of the Spanish copulas: the influence of contextual modulation’ and won the Springer Award for the Best Poster Presentation at the 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2015) at the Poblenou Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).
  • Sara’s paper ‘Changes in the distributional patterns of the Spanish copulas: the influence of contextual modulation’ was published in the Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2015 Student Session.