CUNY 34

The 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 34) is taking place online from March 4 through 6, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. We have many faculty members and alumni involved:

• Nayoun Kim (recent postdoc, now at Sungkyunkwan University), Keir Moulton (faculty), and Daphna Heller (faculty): "Processing embedded clauses in Korean: Silent element or a dependency formation?"
• Keir Moulton (faculty), Cassandra Chapman (postdoc), and Nayoun Kim (recent postdoc, now at Sungkyunkwan University): "Predicting binding domains: Evidence from fronted auxiliaries and wh-predicates."
• Breanna Pratley (MA 2020) and Phil Monahan (faculty): "Can English idioms undergo the dative alternation? A priming investigation."
• Breanna Pratley (MA 2020) and Daphna Heller (faculty) are part of a talk with Si On Yoon (University of Iowa): "Invisible, unmentioned entities affect referential forms."
• Tiana V. Simovic (Ph.D., Department of Psychology) and Craig Chambers (faculty): "The role of prior discourse in the context of action: Insights from pronoun resolution."
• Dave Kush (faculty) is presenting with Anna Giskes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): "What to expect when you are expecting an antecedent: Processing cataphora in Dutch."
• Becky Tollan (Ph.D. 2019, now at the University of Delaware) is part of a talk with Bilge Palaz (University of Delaware): "The dual nature of subjecthood: Unifying subject islands and that-trace effects."
• Becky Tollan (Ph.D. 2019, now at the University of Delaware) is part of a talk with Myung Hye Yoo (University of Delaware): "Semantic interference in dependency formation: NP types in cleft sentences."
• Giuseppe Ricciardi (MA 2016, now at Harvard University) is part of a presentation with Yuhan Zhang (Harvard University) and Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University): "How many response options in a TVJT? It depends."