FYIs

PI of a 5-yr $3 million National Professional Development (NPD) grant from the US Department of Education. The grant will prepare 4 cohorts of teachers and school leaders in New York City high schools to support the academic and socio-emotional needs of multilingual learners.

Additionally her forthcoming publication is in press:
Stern, Nancy. 2022. Reflexivity, Role Conflicts, and the Meaning of Self Pronouns. Manuscrito. DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2022.V45N1.NS

Carolina was awarded the Altman Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-2023!

Additionally, Carolina will present her paper titled, "Completive todo across Spanish dialects" at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 52), which will be held virtually at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 21-23.

Trott, S., Reed, S., Ferreira, V., & Bergen, B. In press. The role of prosody in disambiguating English indirect requests. Language & Speech, to appear.

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Thesis: Grammar Competition Explored In Two Case Studies: Ns Stage And Old English

Zoom meeting details:
ID: 862 2256 1708
Passcode: 221157

Aidan's First Exam Paper was accepted for WCCFL, May 13-15, 2022, titled: Right node raising and Flexible Cyclic Linearization [Oral presentation]. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States (online).

Aidan's paper titled: Genre formation as enregisterment [Oral presentation], was accepted to the Chicago Linguistic Society 58, on April 22-24, 2022 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Publication:
Kandybowicz, Jason et. al. 2022. Managing Data for Theoretical Syntactic Study of a Language. In Andrea L. Perez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister (eds.), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, 523-530. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Upcoming invited course:
Invited to teach a course and give a research talk at African Linguistics School 6, to be held in Porto-Novo, Benin in June 2022.

Publications:

• Chen, W.-R., Whalen, D. H., & Tiede, M. K. (2021). A dual mechanism for intrinsic F0. Journal of Phonetics, 87(101063), 1-11.
• Grover, V., Shafer, V. L., Campanelli, L., Whalen, D. H., & Levy, E. S. (2021). Perception of American English consonants /v/ and /w/ by Hindi speakers of English. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 7(3), 370-407. doi:10.1075/jslp.20033.gro
• Kabakoff, H. C., Harel, D., Tiede, M. K., Whalen, D. H., & McAllister, T. (2021). Extending ultrasound tongue complexity measures to speech development and disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 2557-2574. doi:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00537
• Roon, K. D., Chen, W.-R., Iwasaki, R., Kang, J., Kim, B., Shejaeya, G., . . . Whalen, D. H. (2022 online). Comparison of auto-contouring and hand-contouring of ultrasound images of the tongue surface. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. doi:10.1080/02699206.2021.1998633
• Warner, H. J., Whalen, D. H., Harel, D., & Jackson, E. S. (2022). The effect of gap duration on the perception of fluent versus disfluent speech. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 71, 105896. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105896

Publication:

• Godbole, M. A., Malvar, N. A., Flores-Robles, G., & Valian, V. (2022). Who do you like? Who will you vote for? Political ideology and person perception in the 2020 US Presidential Election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP)

Recent Talks:

• 10 Mar 2022. Valian, V. Panelist with Mario Weick and Arwa Mahdawi on Gender, Power and the Brain. WOW London.
• 12 Feb 2021. Valian, V. Creating inclusive and productive environments. Keynote presentation to the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP).
• 10 Feb 2021. Valian, V. Still too slow: The advancement of women. Keynote presentation, Einstein Medical School.
• 6 Nov 2021. Valian, V. Syntactic categories, structures, and innateness. Keynote presentation, 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Shanghai.
• 6 Nov 2021. Eliatamby, A. and Valian, V. The continuous nature of negator development. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Talks:
Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years, at the Center for Language & Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, March 7, 2022

Presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development in November 2021:
Maryutina, E., Van der Feest, S.V.H., & Shafer, V.S. (November 2021). 'Production of Russian /I/ and /y/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children: effects of Language Experience.' Poster presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Publication:
Van der Feest, S.V.H., Rose, M.C., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). 'Showing Strength through Flexibility: Multi-Accent Toddlers Recognize Words Quickly and Efficiently.' Brain and Language, 227, 105083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105083