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  • Lillo-Martin and Wang at X-PPL
    Diane Lillo-Martin and Shuyan Wang will present a poster, titled “Children’s online processing of scalar implicatures”, at the 2025 edition of the conference on Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025), hosted by the University of Zurich, September 1st-2nd 2015.
    Posted on August 31, 2025
  • Xu and Wang | Languages
    Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University) and Shuyan Wang (PhD 2022, now a post-doc at UConn) have published an article in the journal Languages, titled “On the Acquisition of English Complex Predicates and Complex Word Formation: Revisiting the Parametric Approach”. Congratulations Ting and Shuyan! Abstract: Languages vary in their availability of productive endocentric […]
    Posted on August 31, 2025
  • Kaufmanns | Invited talks in Tokyo and Sapporo
    Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann gave a series of invited talks in August: Stefan Kaufmann gave two lectures on “Probabilistic Semantics for Modality and Conditionals” at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, on August 5 (co-hosted by Daisuke Bekki, Ikumi Imani, and UConn alum Teruyuki Mizuno, PhD 2023) Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann each gave a talk at […]
    Posted on August 19, 2025

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