Predicting contrastive alternatives in the comprehension of focus How and when are focus alternatives identified during real-time language processing? I will raise the possibility that, at least in certain contexts,...

How do Spanish-learning infants discover morphological suffixes? (UBC Talk) Suffixes like English -s, -ed and -ing, and Spanish -a and -o are the basic building blocks of syntax. In this talk, I will...

Syntactic variables and semantic minimality Ethan Poole (joint work with Zahra Mirrazi) We argue that when two syntactic variables are "related" and stand in a c-command relationship at LF, a...

Reimagining the Semantics of Narratives and Counterfactuals We propose a semantics for narratives and counterfactuals that explicitly connects them to cognitive models of temporal / causal inferences in narrative discourse...

“Cross-linguistic differences in coarticulation in two Australian languages”