A new preprint! We argue that English secretly has complementizer agreement that marks the path of filler–gap dependencies, much like in Búlí, Irish, and Wolof. Its distribution resembles FG dependency path-marking in unrel. languages, with Kiitharaka n- as the closest match.
tinyurl.com/4x5f54rw
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Hiring! Athulya Aravind and I are looking for a full-time Postgraduate Associate at Yale (Linguistics/Psychology). The position is designed as preparation for PhD applications in linguistics, cog sci, or psychology, including structured mentoring and research training. tinyurl.com/mrxjya5t
If you know of a graduating senior who might want to spend a gap year in @jmhenderson.bsky.social's productive, supportive, and fun lab, pass along this ad for a full-time, NIH-funded RA position!
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Saturday! Poster 6 (#198) Relatedly, Shota, Grusha and I extend previous super cool work by Shota, and use a priming experiment to test whether English speakers represent null complementizers in full RCs but not in reduced RCs. Wanna find out? Come see our poster! hsp2026.org/abstracts/su...
Friday time! Poster 5 (# 365) @grushaprasad.bsky.social , @shotamomma.bsky.social and I leverage an ACT-R based parsing model (from Grusha’s previous work!) to evaluate potential explanations of gradient effects in cross-structural priming. Explicit parsers FTW!!
My 6 y.o.: Why can’t babies speak?
Me: (omg this kid already overcame empiricism)
😂 according to Reddit I could've made a living as a gangsta rapper:
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I’m joining linguistics at MIT this fall. Sad to leave UMass, but also excited about learning from people at MIT linguistics!
秋学期からマサチューセッツ工科大学の言語学科で働きます。UMassを去るのは寂しいですが、新しい環境が楽しみでもあります。
whamit.mit.edu/2026/05/11/
You can’t do away with abstract (silent) elements in syntax to model production behaviors!
A joint work with my inimitable colleagues - Doreen Georgi (Potsdam) and Michel Wilson (Nevada)!
Fernanda Ferreira
Gabor Brody
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We report eight pairs of production and judgment experiments showing that English speakers are less likely to produce "that" when the relevant complementizer lies on the hierarchical path of an A-bar ...
