UofT at the 37th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference

The University of Michigan’s Linguistics Department hosted the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held at Ann Arbor May 16th-18th. A full list of UofT participants can be found below.

UofT Linguistics presenters gave talks at this exciting conference, including Tiana Simovic of the Department of Psychology, her supervisor Dr. Craig Chambers, focusing on Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science, and Wesley Orth, a Postdoctoral Fellow who completed his PhD at Northwestern University.

That presentation by Simovic and Chambers looked at how pragmatics (mental state reasoning) is involved in pronoun resolution, a relatively unexplored field.

At HSP 2023, they explored "how reasoning is involved in language processing." 

Orth's talk at the conference was a collaborative effort in relative clauses in Hungarian, a relatively understudied language. Unique properties of its structure allowed Orth and co. to test new hypotheses, testing variants which read to different reading behaviours, offering insights into the role of memory and prediction in processing. Their work will have an impact on tools for investigating such understudied languages.

Some posters from our UofT linguists included Dave Kush's poster on Active expectation in the processing of Urdu and Hindi correlative structures, in collaboration with Urwa Ali, Sanvi Dubey, Ishita Kumar, and Hayah Siddiqui. 

Their work developed a variant of the "violated expectation paradigm," used in work on expectations and prediction. Hypothesizing surprise if readers were presented with something other than a demonstrative pronoun at the start of a sentence after seeing a correlative, they measured reading time to gauge "surprise" in readers presented with a name at the start of a second sentence instead of a pronoun. Indeed, they found this surprise value. 

Future work will clarify whether these results show prediction of a pronoun as a subject of the next clause, or the pronoun as the first thing in the sentence - a challenging task due to Urdu and Hindi's flexible word order. 

Other posters included Ivan Bondoc’s on the subject relative clause advantage in Tagalog; Negative disjunctive sentences in child and adult Romanian: A preference for strong interpretations, co-authored by Lyn Tieu, assistant Professor in the French Department; and a poster on children’s interpretation of the hotly-debated ambiguous singular “they” by Anissa Baird, Nicole Hupalo, Mahnoor Khurram, and Emily Atkinson.

Notable alums presenting at the conference include Ailís Cournane, who earned her Master of Arts and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto, and who now leads the Child Language Lab at New York University.

The Linguistics Department was proud to see so many of our own linguists forging new paths in their fields, and can't wait for HSP Conference #38!

Presentations and talks by UofT Linguists:

Talks:

Tiana Simovic and Craig Chambers: Pronoun Interpretation Highlights the Robustness of Social Perspective Reasoning

Sonny Wang and Craig Chambers: The Trait-Like Nature of Bridging and Instrument Inferences in Younger and Older Adults: An Individual Differences Study

Wesley Orth, Dávid Nemeskey, and Eszter Ronai: Hungarian relative clause processing: Diverging Results in L-maze and A-Maze

Posters by current UofT linguists:

Urwa Ali, Sanvi Dubey, Ishita Kumar, Hayah Siddiqui, Dave Kush: Active expectations in processing Urdu and Hindi correlative structures

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae: Negative disjunctive sentences in child and adult Romanian: A preference for strong interpretations

Ivan Bondoc, Dave Kush: Animacy does not modulate the subject relative clause advantage in Tagalog

Anissa Baird, Nicole Hupalo, Mahnoor Khurram, Emily Atkinson: Children’s Interpretation of Ambiguous Singular "They"

Presentations by UofT Linguistics Alum: 

Maxime Tulling, Vishal Arvindam, Ailís Cournane: Maybe now, not later: online processing of possibility and negation in adults and 2-year-olds

Reunited at DiGS 23!!

From right to left: Erin Hall, Ana Pérez-Leroux, Ailis Cournane

 

 

 

The Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) conference, held at NYU,  took place June 8-10.  DiGS 23 had a special workshop on "Child learners in syntactic change: Theory and methods"! This workshop hosted presentations and discussions on topics combining theoretical syntax, child language acquisition, variationist sociolinguistics and computational modelling of language change.

Erin Hall (PhD Alum 2020, now assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino) and Ana Pérez-Leroux (Faculty) presented their work entitled "Children take steps toward cyclic and non-cyclic diachronic changes". The pair examine the role of child language acquisition in systematic, cyclic processes of grammaticalization, and non-cyclic changes in progress. They propose that there are 2 different processes involved in child language acquisition.

Not only did this workshop allow for Hall and Pérez-Leroux to share their amazing work, but they also got to reunite with Ailis Cournane! Cournane is a PhD alum, class of 2015, and is now an assistant professor at NYU! 

Overall, UofT faculty and alum had a successful time at DiGS 23! 

Publication: Children's Comprehension of NP Embedding by Hall & Pérez-Leroux!

Erin Hall (California State University, San Bernardino) and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (Faculty) have published  "Children's Comprehension of NP Embedding" in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics! 

They used a colour task to examine children's comprehension of sentences containing complex NPs, comparing PP modifiers to coordinated NPs, where both referents are accessible.  They propose that error patterns for comitative prepositions can be explained by the assumption that children's errors align with the direction of systematic language change. 

Be sure to read the whole paper to learn more!

Hall, E. & Pérez-Leroux, A. T., (2022) “Children’s comprehension of NP embedding”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5816

New Publication on Language Dominance and Order of Acquisition in Translation Priming!

Rachel Soo (Undergrad and MA alum) and Philip Monahan (Faculty) have published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 

"Language dominance and order of acquisition affect auditory translation priming in heritage speakers" tests Cantonese heritage speakers and native speakers in an auditory translation priming paradigm. Their results suggest that both language dominance and order of language acquisition can help to explain translation priming findings and bilingual lexical processing. Soo and Monahan invite a rethinking of the role of both variables in bilingual lexical access for speakers with different language dominance profiles. 

Great job Soo and Monahan!! 

Soo, R., & Monahan, P. J. (2022). Language dominance and order of acquisition affect auditory translation priming in heritage speakers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218221091753.

Speech, Language and Learning Intervention Research Symposium

Arizona State University will be hosting the Speech, Language and Learning Intervention Research Symposium virtually on March 25th -26th 2022.  The focus will be on advancing interventions and exploring creative solutions to improve the quality of education for children with disabilities across culturally and linguistically diverse background. 

Esther Geva (Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at OISE) is a keynote speaker and will be presenting a talk entitled "Language and Literacy Skills Development of Typically and Atypically Developing Second Language Learners". 

For more information and registration, see their website which is linked above! 

Virtual Event: Developmental Plasticity and Language Learning

University College is hosting Professor Elissa Newport for an exciting lecture as part of The Neil Graham Lecture series! Professor Newport is a Director at the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Departments of Neurology, Psychology, and Linguistics at Georgetown University.  

Newport will be speaking on Developmental Plasticity and Language Learning. Specifically discussing how children and adults learn languages when first exposed to them at varying ages, and the outcomes shown when children/adults have strokes to language areas of the brain. 

The event will take place Tuesday, February 1st 2022 from 4:30pm-6:30pm EST. Please RSVP by Thursday, January 27th 2022 to secure your spot! 

New Publication: Learning Island-Insensitivity from the Input: A Corpus Analysis of Child-and Youth-Directed Text in Norwegian!

Dave Kush (Faculty) and colleagues have published a new article in Glossa!  This new article describes a corpus study that examines youth-directed reading materials to assess what direct evidence Norwegian children receive for filler-gap dependencies in island structures. Kush, Sant and Strætvern consider how different learning models would fare on the acquisition of target generalizations and speculate on how the observed description of filler-gap dependencies reflect the interaction of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic conditions! 

Kush, D. & Sant, C. & Strætkvern, S. B., (2021) “Learning Island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- and youth-directed text in Norwegian”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5774

Mutual Knowledge 40

The 40th Mutual Knowledge workshop is taking place online on June 25 and 26, hosted by University College London.

• Daphna Heller (faculty) is giving an invited talk: "Cognitive mechanisms for sentence processing: From common ground to multiple perspectives."
• Craig Chambers (faculty) and Tiana Simovic (Ph.D., Department of Psychology) have a poster: "Pronoun interpretation in the context of dynamic action: A test of the retrieval hypothesis."
• Myrto Grigoroglou (faculty) is giving a talk with Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania): "Speaker adjustments to addressees during language production."
• Craig Chambers (faculty) also has a poster with Karolina Wieczorek (University of Calgary), Elizabeth Morin-Lessard (University of Calgary), and Susan Graham (University of Calgary): "Preschoolers' use of emotional prosody to resolve communicative ambiguity as a function of speaker conventionality."

CLA-ACL 2021

This year's meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique is being held online from June 4 through 7, and many University of Toronto linguists of past and present are involved.

• Laura Colantoni (faculty) and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty) are part of a talk with Yadira Alvarez López (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Miguel Barreto (BA), Irinia Marinescu (Ph.D. 2012, Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Jierui Yang (BA), and colleague Alejandro Cuza (Purdue University): "The modular interaction hypothesis: When the exponent of gender is an unstressed vowel."
• Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (former postdoc, now at Queen's University), Elizabeth Cowper (faculty), and Daniel Currie Hall (Ph.D. 2007, now at St. Mary's University), with Louise Koren (Carleton University), Jennice Hinds (Carleton University), and Dan Siddiqi (Carleton University): "Morphological upstaging and markedness."
• Anabela Rato (faculty, Department of Spanish and Portuguese) and Yasaman Rafat (Ph.D. 2011, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now at the University of Western Ontario) are part of a talk with Martha Black (University of Western Ontario): "The effect of stimuli repetition on approximant-stop discrimination in Spanish-dominant and English-dominant late bilinguals."
• Lisa Sullivan (Ph.D.), Erin Vearncombe (faculty, WIT program), and Nathan Sanders (faculty) are giving a pedagogy talk: "Grading grading: Training for consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness in marking linguistics writing."
• Cristina Cuervo (faculty), Ohanna Severo (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Sophie Harrington (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese), and Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "Features and forms in L2 Spanish verbal inflection."
• Songül Gündoğdu (postdoc), Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (faculty), and Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): "Ezafe in the context of CPs in Persian and Kurmanji."
• Cristina Cuervo (faculty) and Hong-Yan Liu (Ph.D.): "The path of Mandarin Ps: from V to P (and back)."
• Koorosh Ariyaee (Ph.D.) and Alexei Kochetov (faculty): "Acoustics of Persian uvular lenition."
• Vidhya Elango (MA) and Derek Denis (faculty): "Fom and friends: Variable BAN-laxing in Multicultural Toronto English."
• Suzi Lima (faculty): "Relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese."
• Michelle Troberg (faculty): "Towards a syntactic typology of prepositions in French."
• Curt Anderson (faculty) has a poster: "Perceivable properties and inference to mental states."
• Ai Taniguchi (Toronto) is giving a pedagogy talk: "Teaching academic writing via theoretical linguistics: Towards authentic assessments in introductory linguistics classes."
• Samantha Jackson (postdoc): "Pronoun acquisition in a varilingual context."
• Zoë McKenzie (Ph.D.): "Restrictions on transitivity in Inuktitut subordinate clauses."
• Andrew Peters (Ph.D.): "How to adjoin adverbial clauses, and make verb clusters: Lessons from Mongolian converbs."
• Sahar Taghipour (Ph.D.): "Deriving two types of applicatives: The case of Persian psych predicates."
• Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "Obviating lexicalism: A structural account of exocentricity and metaphorical extension."
• Omar Gamboa Gonzalez (Ph.D., Department of French): "Double aspect des nominalisations du français obtenues par conversion."
• Andrew McCandless (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese) has a poster: "Phonetic training of Spanish /u/ in L2 Spanish learners with L1 Canadian English."
• Hilary Walton (Ph.D., Department of French): "Does language learning context influence the dynamics of L2 learner groups? An investigation of social identity in Canadian French-as-a-second-language programs."
• Marjorie Leduc (MA) has a poster: "Icy targets: The case of Karajá."
• Nicoline Butler (MA) also has a poster: "Sound symbolism in electric, rock, and ground-type Pokémon names."
• Heather Burnett (former postdoc, now at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique) with Yiming Liang (University of Paris) and Pascal Amsili (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): "Revisiter l’omission du complémenteur que en français montréalais : Exploration de facteurs cognitifs."
• Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (former postdoc, now at Queen's University): "Representing and resolving feature conflicts."
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) and Sandrine Tailleur (Ph.D. 2012, now at l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi): "Where do maybes come from?"
• Olga Tararova (Ph.D. 2018, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now at the University of Western Ontario) is giving a talk with Martha Black (University of Western Ontario): "Multilingual advantage for adult-instructed acquisition of morphosyntax and the effect of processing modality."
• Monica Irimia (Ph.D. 2012, now at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): "DOM co-occurrence restrictions in Romance: Beyond clitic clusters."
• Monica Irimia (Ph.D. 2012, now at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) also hasa poster with Tova Rapoport (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): "The nature of a predicate: The case of depictives."
• Bethany MacLeod (Ph.D. 2012, now at Carleton University) and Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr (Carleton University): "Imitation of the acoustic realization of Spanish stress: Production and perception."
• Michael Barrie (Ph.D. 2006, now at Sogang University) and Kang Jungu (Sogang University): "Prosodic spell-out of nominals in Mongolian."
• Jila Ghomeshi (Ph.D. 1996, now at the University of Manitoba): "T-relatives in Persian."
• Lyn Tieu (MA 2008, now at Western Sydney University): "Scalar implicatures in French: Children’s production mirrors their comprehension."
• Recent faculty member Anne-José Villeneuve (now at the University of Alberta), David Rosychuk (University of Alberta), and Davy Bigot (Concordia University): "Langue de ville et langue de soirée: Variation stylistique et maintien des contraintes en français québécois soutenu."
• Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta) is also part of talk with Tracie Pospisil (University of Alberta), and Kristan Marchak (University of Alberta): "D’où elle est? : Perception dialectale et diversité du français parlé en Albe."
• Recent visiting student Sander Nederveen (University of British Columbia): "Semantics and morphosyntax of double perfects in Alemannic."
• For the Pedagogy Roundtable session, we have several participants. Lex Konnelly (Ph.D.), Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.), and Nathan Sanders are presenting "The Diverse Names Database: A tool for creating more equitable, diverse, and inclusive linguistic example sentences." Sophia Bello (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese) is presenting "Effectiveness of interactive digital applications: Assessment of student engagement." Julianne Doner (Ph.D. 2019) is presenting "Lessons from being the Online Support TA in summer 2020."
• Among those taking part in the career panel for linguistics-related jobs outside academia are Christopher Spahr (Ph.D. 2015, now at Rune Labs) and Carrie Gillon (MA 1999, now working with the Squamish Nation).

Research Groups: Week of May 31-June 4

Wednesday, June 2, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Syntax Group
The second of two sets of practice talks for the Canadian Linguistic Association meeting in June:

1. Cristina Cuervo (faculty), Ohanna Severo (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Sophie Harrington (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese), and Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "Features and forms in L2 Spanish verbal inflection."

2. Andrew Peters (Ph.D.): "How to adjoin adverbial clauses, and make verb Clusters: Lessons from Mongolian converbs."

3. Sahar Taghipour (Ph.D.): "Deriving two types of unaccusatives: The case of Persian."

New paper: Hirayama, Colantoni, and Pérez-Leroux (2021)

Manami Hirayama (Ph.D. 2009, now at Seikei University), Laura Colantoni (faculty), and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty) have a paper in the Journal of Child Language, 48(3): "Can prosody encode recursive embedding? Children's realizations of complex NPs in Japanese."

Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children had acquired the lexical prosody (contrast between accented and unaccented words), a pre-requisite for downstep realization. While downstep, the prosodic phrasing involved in the complex NPs in this study, was established, children showed interspeaker variation with the metrical boost, a feature that distinguishes recursively embedded NPs from non-recursive NPs. However, variability was also found in adults, indicating that, in contrast to previous results, prosodic encoding of syntax is generally unreliable in adult speech. Finally, the magnitude of metrical boost was not correlated to children's ability to produce recursive possessives, suggesting that prosody does not help bootstrap Japanese children's recursive phrases.

28th Manchester Phonology Meeting

The 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting took place online from May 26 through 28, co-hosted by a mix of scholars, mostly based at either the University of Manchester or the University of Edinburgh.

• Andrei Munteanu (Ph.D.) presented a poster: "A union of quantitative and traditional approaches in historical linguistics."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia) gave a talk: "Words without vowels, reduplication, and syllable structure in Bella Coola (Nuxalk)."
• Recent faculty member Aleksei Nazarov (Utrecht University) also gave a talk: "Modelling the exceptionality/opacity dilemma in acquiring Bedouin Arabic."

New paper: Kang and Schertz (2021)

Yoonjung Kang (faculty) and Jessamyn Schertz (faculty) have a paper out in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 39(2): "The influence of perceived L2 sound categories in on-line adaptation and implications for loanword phonology."

Some propose that loanword adaptation is at its core non-native perception of foreign input (Boersma and Hamann 2009; Peperkamp et al. 2008; Silverman 1992). It has also been noted, however, that cross-language correspondences in loanwords are far more consistent than expected based on on-line perception by naïve monolinguals. There is also evidence that cross-language perception itself differs depending on adapters’ experience with the source language (henceforth, L2) (Bundgaard-Nielsen et al. 2011; Kwon 2017; Nomura and Ishikawa 2018). These findings suggest that cross-language perception is mediated by adapters’ knowledge of L2 sound structure, rather than a simple function of native language (L1) perception applied to L2 acoustic signals. The current study presents a direct test of the influence of L1 vs. L2 perceptual strategies on cross-language speech perception through a series of phonetic categorization experiments in three language modes: L1, L2, and L2L1 (cross-language). Results point to a distinct influence of listener’s L2 knowledge on cross-language perception: L2L1 mapping was well explained by listeners’ L2 perceptual strategies, and for those listeners who showed different perceptual patterns for L1 and L2, cross-language perception more closely mirrored L2 than L1 perception. By demonstrating that perceived L2 phonological categories shape cross-language perception, the study suggests a way to reconcile the perceptual view of loanword adaptation with the phonological regularity of established loanwords.

DiGS and SCiP 2021

Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 22 is taking place online from May 20 through 22, hosted by the University of Konstanz. Preceding the conference is an accompanying workshop, Syntactic Change in Progress (SCiP).

• Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty) is giving one of the keynote talks for SCiP: "Studying syntactic change in (mostly) synchronic data: The view from 20th century Ontario, Canada."
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) and Sandrine Tailleur (Ph.D. 2012, now at l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) have a presentation for DiGS: "Where do maybes come from? The interaction of history and acquisition."
• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University) is also part of a DiGS talk with Espen Klævik-Pettersen (University of Agder): "The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second."

GALANA 9

The ninth biennial Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA) is taking place online from May 7 through 9, with the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Iceland hosting.

• Ailís Cournane (Ph.D. 2015, now at New York University), Anouk Dieuleveut (University of Maryland), Chiara Repetti-Ludlow (New York University), and Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland) have a presentation: "Testing modal force acquisition beyond the epistemic paradigm."
• Lyn Tieu (MA 2013, now at Western Sydney University) is part of a poster presentation with Cory Bill (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Elena Pagliarini (Università degli Studi di Padova), Jacopo Romoli (University of Bergen), and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University): "Children's interpretations of every...some sentences."

Research Groups: Friday, May 7

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Cognitive Science of Language Group
Yang Xu (faculty, Department of Computer Science): "Chaining and the growth of word meaning."

Natural language relies on a finite lexicon to express a potentially infinite range of meanings. This tension creates a funnel effect where meanings are compressed through a limited set of words. Prior work suggests that word meanings are structured for efficient compression. I describe recent development that extends this work to investigate the cognitive mechanisms in the dynamic growth of word meaning through time. I first present work that synthesizes cognitive linguistic theories of chaining with classic models of categorization to predict the historical extension of numeral classifiers for emerging referents. I then present evidence that similar models of chaining predict children’s spatial word generalization. Our findings suggest that an exemplar-based model of chaining may underlie the general mechanisms in word meaning growth. I discuss applications of this work to natural language processing and implications for research in lexicon evolution.

New paper: Paquette-Smith, Cooper, and Johnson (2020)

Melissa Paquette-Smith (Ph.D. 2018, Department of Psychology, now at the University of California, Los Angeles), Angela Cooper (former postdoc, Department of Psychology, now at BEworks) and Elizabeth Johnson (faculty) have a paper out in the Journal of Child Language, 48(2): "Targeted adaptation in infants following live exposure to an accented talker."

Infants struggle to understand familiar words spoken in unfamiliar accents. Here, we examine whether accent exposure facilitates accent-specific adaptation. Two types of pre-exposure were examined: video-based (i.e., listening to pre-recorded stories; Experiment 1) and live interaction (reading books with an experimenter; Experiments 2 and 3). After video-based exposure, Canadian English-learning 15- to 18-month-olds failed to recognize familiar words spoken in an unfamiliar accent. However, after face-to-face interaction with a Mandarin-accented talker, infants showed enhanced recognition for words produced in Mandarin English compared to Australian English. Infants with live exposure to an Australian talker were not similarly facilitated, perhaps due to the lower vocabulary scores of the infants assigned to the Australian exposure condition. Thus, live exposure can facilitate accent adaptation, but this ability is fragile in young infants and is likely influenced by vocabulary size and the specific mapping between the speaker and the listener's phonological system.

50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM

The Department of Linguistics at l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, is holding a workshop comparing perspectives on linguistic issues from April 22 through 24.

• Juvenal Ndayiragije (faculty): "Être d'accord ou pas."
• Michael Friesner (faculty, Department of French) and Laura Kastronic (faculty, Department of French): "Le contact communautaire et la réalisation de la voyelle /æ/ dans les emprunts en français montréalais."
• Anna Frolova (faculty, Department of French): "Développement de la transitivité verbale en russe L1."
• Former faculty member Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta) and colleague Davy Bigot (Concordia University): "Ça prend plus qu’un changement de contexte: L’expression de la conséquence en français québécois soutenu."

Third Experimental Portuguese Workshop

With the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, we are co-hosting the Third Experimental Portuguese Linguistics Workshop on April 23 and 24. Unlike the previous one in 2019, the workshop will be online; however, it will still bring together researchers from all over the world. See the website for registration details.

Myrto in Arts and Science News

Myrto Grigoroglou (faculty) has been interviewed for the Arts and Science News talking about her research and the roots of the modern subfield of language acquisition. Check it out!