CUNY 32

The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is being hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder, from March 29 through 31. Several faculty members, current students, and alumni are represented on the program.

Raheleh Saryazdi (Ph.D., Department of Psychology) and Craig Chambers (faculty) are presenting a talk:
"Reference and perspective taking across the adult lifespan."

Several current departmental members and alumni are presenting posters:

Kelly-Ann Blake (Ph.D.), Frederick Gietz (Ph.D.), and Meg Grant (former faculty, now at Humboldt University of Berlin):
"Syntactic prediction without lexical activation: Evidence from both (of the)…and."

Becky Tollan (Ph.D.) and Daphna Heller (faculty):
"Pronoun resolution in an ergative language: Effects of case and transitivity."

Raheleh Saryazdi (Ph.D., Department of Psychology), Tamara Mostarac (BA), and Craig Chambers (faculty):
"Speech rate and language processing in older adults: Is slow speech better?"

Daphna Heller (faculty) and Suzanne Stevenson (faculty, Department of Computer Science), along with Xiaobei Zheng (Shenzhen University) and Richard Breheny (University College London):
"How interaction affects (un)certainty about the partners' perspectives."

Megan Parker (MA 2018) and Daphna Heller (faculty):
"Overspecifying state information in the production of referring expressions."

Naomi Francis (MA 2014, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with coauthors Leo Rosenstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Martin Hackl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
"L1 acquisition of polarity sensitivity: The case of either and too."