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The Department of LinguisticsRecent Ph.D. Travis Major has accepted a tenure track position in Syntax at USC! Travis is currently a postdoc at USC and we look forward to having him nearby.
Read MoreCongratulations to Adam Royer for his position as a qualitative and quantitative researcher at thrv, a market research firm, designing surveys and conducting interviews to help businesses identify new markets with high earnings potential.
Read MoreCongratulations to Brice Roberts for his position as a text-to-speech Linguist for German, with Accenture.
Read MoreCongratulations to Jesse Zymet! After a training fellowship at Insight Data Science, Jesse is now a Principle Data Scientist at Capital One in New York.
Read MoreCongratulations to Deborah Wong, who defended her dissertation in fall 2020, and will soon be taking up a position as a data scientist at Spectrum Labs, a start-up based in San Fransicso. The company works on text and audio content moderation and detecting toxic behaviors online.
Read MoreCongratulations to Marju Kaps (PhD 2020), who was awarded the Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award for her 2020 talk “Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye- tracking evidence from Estonian” at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Marju recently accepted a lectureship at Birkbeck College, University of London. Congratulations, Marju!
Read MoreWe extend our congratulations to Dr. Maayan Abenina-Adar (Ph.D., 2020) and Prof. Yale Sharvit for the publication of their paper, “On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses”, in the journal, Natural Language Semantics (2021)
Read MoreWe extend our congratulations to Richard Stockwell, recent Ph.D recipient, and Carson Schütze for the publication of their paper in the journal, English Language and Linguistics. The article is as follows: Stockwell, Richard and Carson T. Schütze (in press). “The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: a follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015).” English Language and Linguistics.
Read MoreWe congratulate the Language Acquisition Lab and Megha Sundara for her work on two articles that have been accepted for publication in the journals Developmental Science and Cognition. The two articles are as follows: “6-month-olds are sensitive to English morphology” by Yun Kim (Emory University) and Megha Sundara to appear in Developmental Science. “Stem similarity modulates infants’ acquisition of phonological…
Read MoreCongratulations to Nikos Angelopoulos and Dominique Sportiche! Their paper “Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek: from interpretation to structure” appears in the first volume of NLLT 2021. The paper can be accessed through the following link https://rdcu.be/cerMo
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