ExLing Highlights in Spring 2024
Spring 2024 marked a period of remarkable achievement for our lab members. Vanessa has been actively presenting findings from her PhD research at several prestigious conferences, such as the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference (AAAL), and the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America […]
ExLing presentations in Spring 2023
It was a busy Spring 2023 for ExLing Lab members! In March, the whole lab group took a road trip to Urbana Illinois, where Vanessa Sheu and Jingying Hu presented papers at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15). The theme of the conference was Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism. We enjoyed […]
Welcome, Golsa!
The ExLing Lab welcomes our new PhD student Golsa Khodadadi! Golsa Khodadadi is interested in syntax, discourse, language processing, and second language acquisition. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from University of Tabriz in Iran with a thesis that examined Verb Phrase Ellipsis in English political discourse and prose fiction. Her more recent research […]
Dr. Tom Juzek’s research presentation
Dr. Tom Juzek , Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Florida State University, gave a research presentation on December 07 on Gradience in Grammar and the Syntactic Acceptability Dataset. During the talk, Dr. Juzek presented the results of previous work with Jana Häussler (2020) on the question of whether gradience in acceptability should be […]
Welcome, Yue and Jingying!
The ExLing Lab welcomes two new PhD students: Yue Li and Jingying Hu! Yue completed her M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her interests are sentence production and second language acquisition. Jingying completed her MA. in TCSOL from Peking University. Her interests are Chinese linguistics, second language […]
Congratulations to Vanessa Sheu!
Vanessa Sheu successfully defended her preliminary project in May 2022 titled “Aural Processing and Spoken Production of Mandarin Garden-Path Sentences in Native, L2, and Heritage Speakers: The Role of Semantic Plausibility.” Her research involves looking at the syntax-semantic interface in the interpretation of ambiguous sentences and the effect of semantic complexity on production in heritage […]
Double congratulations to Josh Weirick!
Josh Weirick successfully defended his dissertation “Language background and the realization of the information structure constraints on English dative constructions: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers” on May 21, 2021. In other excellent news, Josh will start a new postdoctoral position in the Aphasia Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at […]
CUNY 2020 virtual conference
Because of the covid-19 pandemic, CUNY 2020 (March 19-21) could not be held as planned in Amherst, Massachusetts. However, the organizers went to heroic efforts and quickly moved the CUNY 2020 conference online. Links to the talks and posters are available for anyone to view in the OSF repository. Our lab members got to participate […]
Welcome, Vanessa!
As the Fall 2019 semester begins in earnest, we are excited to welcome PhD. student Vanessa Sheu to the ExLing Lab. Vanessa is excited to join the Exling Lab this fall. She received her B.A in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and her M.A. in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a […]
March 2019 Conferences
Lab members were busy presenting at three conferences in March 2019. Carol Chun Zheng, Josh Weirick, and Elaine Francis presented a talk at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Atlanta and a poster at the CUNY sentence processing conference in Boulder, CO reporting on their project, “Effects of frequency and simplicity in L2 […]