Language & Brain Lab members showcase research
Language & Brain Lab members María Piñango, Martín Fuchs, Yao-Ying Lai, Sara Sánchez Alonso, and Andy Zhang have presented results from a diverse array of research projects at various venues.
María, Martín, Yao-Ying, Sara, and Andy presented four posters at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, held this year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- María and Yao-Ying presented “Eventive iteration construal during comprehension: one process, differing sources,” a joint project with Todd Constable of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Cheryl Lacadie of the School of Medicine, Ashwini Deo of the Ohio State University, and Emily Foster-Hanson of New York University.
- Martín and María presented “Experimental evidence on the role of situational context in language change: the case of the Spanish Progressive to Imperfective shift,” a joint project with Ashwini Deo.
- Andy and María presented “A unified conceptualization for the locative & possessive comprehension of English have,” a joint project with Ashwini Deo.
- Sara and María presented “Diachronic development through synchronic variation in copular use,” a joint project with Ashwini Deo.
Martín gave a talk entitled “Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: in defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy” at the PhoNE conference held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
María gave a talk entitled “Conceptual Underpinnings of Context Modulation in Sentence Meaning Composition: the case of English have,” presenting joint work with Andy and Ashwini Deo, at the Michigan State University Linguistics Student Organization Colloquium.
Finally, Andy gave a talk entitled “A unified conceptual grounding for the locative and possessive meanings of English have,” presenting joint work with María and Ashwini Deo, at the Penn Linguistics Conference held at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Language & Brain Lab is a research group that seeks to investigate the nature of meaning from a neurological and psychological perspective. Lab members are interested in a variety of issues in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and cognitive science. Updates on the Lab’s research activities are available on the Lab News webpage.