Selecting contextually relevant alternatives during comprehension An expression in focus is standardly taken to evoke a contextually salient set of alternatives to itself (Rooth 1992). In an influential study, Husband and Ferreira (2016) proposed that these alternative sets are derived online from the set of semantic associates primed by processing a word in focus. The...

Please join us this Thursday at 4:15 for this practice BU talk: Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives  Minqi Liu, Victoria Mateu, and Nina Hyams In Mandarin, passives with an external argument (EA) – “long passives” (1a) – are structurally different from “short passives” (1b), in which the EA is not projected (e.g.,...

Please join us this Thursday at 4:15 to hear a practice presentation for BU by Tim Hunter and Laurel Perkins. Details below. Also note that the following week, when some people are away at BU, the rest of us will do a "journal club" meeting, so please come to this week's meeting with any suggestions...