UH was well-represented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia conference in Hong Kong, December 1-3, 2023. Akari Ohba and Kamil Deen presented "Why children (incorrectly) accept inverse scope: Inverse scope derived from generalized distributivity." Anupama Reddy and…
The UHM Department of Linguistics was very well represented at the 2023 LSA Summer Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Six graduate students were in attendance (more than any other school!): Ashley Yount, Liv Bianchini, Emma Breslow, Olivia Waring,…
Many linguists from the UHM Department of Linguistics presented their work at the 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, held November 2-5, 2023. Professor Kamil Deen delivered a plenary address titled "The fingerprints of universal grammar." In addition…
PhD student Youngin Lee presented her research entitled "Examining incremental sentence processing in Korean: The case of control constructions" at the 4th International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics in Seoul, Korea, on August 17, 2023. Congratulations, Youngin!
PhD student Orlyn Joyce Esquivel presented several papers in the summer and fall of 2023. She presented her paper "Philippines' linguistic landscape: Perceptions on ethnolinguistic vitality, identity and power" at the Michicagoan Conference in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of…