Graduate students Claudia Duarte-Borquez and Maxine Van Doren, with faculty member Marc Garellek, have published a paper entitled “Utterance-final voice quality in American English and Mexican Spanish bilinguals” in a special issue of Languages.
The paper, which analyzes the voice quality of English-Spanish bilinguals from Southern California and Baja California, can be found here. The paper is part of a special issue on “Prosody in Shared Linguistic Spaces of the Spanish-Speaking World.”
Eric Meinhardt (PhD 2021), Anna Mai (PhD 2022), Eric Baković (faculty), and Adam McCollum (PhD 2019) have published an article in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory: “Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction“. It’s open access, so free for all to read!
Anna Mai (Ph.D. 2022) has published the article “Acoustic and language-specific sources for phonemic abstraction from speech” in Nature Communications. The article is based on their dissertation research and is open-access.
Alumna Dr. Nina Feygl Semushina (Ph.D. 2021, currently a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago) and Prof. Rachel Mayberry received the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award from the journal Language Learning and Development and the Society for Language Development for their paper “Number Stroop Effects in Arabic Digits and ASL Number Signs.”
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro just published the article “Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to Donati, Foppolo, Konrad, and Cecchetto 2022” on the journal Linguistic Inquiry.
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro and co-author Dr. Anamaria Fălăuș just published the article ‘What’ clauses can and ‘which’ cannot: A Romanian puzzle on the journal Language (Vol. 99, Num. 3, September 2023, pp. e176-e190).
Faculty member Ivano Caponigro and co-author Dr. Anamaria Fălăuș just published the chapter ‘Why’ without asking, in Romanian in the volume Non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses, edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Carla Umbach for Oxford University Press (pp. 410-437, 2023).
Faculty member Marc Garellek has been elected to the IPA Council for 2023-2027. The Council is consulted and votes on all matters regarding the IP{Association, Alphabet}.
Graduate students Alex Rodríguez and Maho Takahashi, along with faculty member Grant Goodall, presented posters at the 2023 Human Sentence Processing conference held at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. Alex’s and Grant’s poster was on “Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish: Island sensitivity without gaps”, while Maho and Grant presented two posters, one on “Island effects persist despite context: The case of double relatives in Japanese” and the other on “Crossed vs. nested dependencies and crosslinguistic variability in islands”.
Faculty member Grant Goodall published an article entitled “Constructed Languages” in the open-access journal Annual Review of Linguistics. The article examines philosophical languages of the 17th century, international auxiliary languages of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the languages for film and television that started to become common in the late 20th century, and the artificial languages for psycholinguistic experiments that are widely used now. The article argues that each of these types of languages presents interesting research questions and deserves increased attention from linguists.