Our Activities

Meetings from June to December 2026

Project update week. Planning for the third round of the Korean Demonstratives project, an update on results from the project measuring the pronunciation of questions in English, and discussion of methods of pre-testing experimental items needing to contrast in having more or less freedom in the possible objects of a verb.

Discussion of Snyder (2022) on satiation effects in acceptability judgment tasks. https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/1/38 

Discussion of Fanselow and Frisch (2006) on processing effects on acceptability ratings. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274796.003.0015

Group discussion for updates on next round of English noun norming studies. 

Continuing discussion on experimental methods with  Zhu and Ann (2023) on instruction effects in rating tasks. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.2.5380 

Further analysis of data collected in in Round One of Korean Demonstrative project, team editing of research poster. Preliminary planning for Round Three to explore demonstrative use in bridging anaphora. 

Updated results on Korean demonstrative project, further refinement of data collection planning for reflexives project.

Updated on phonetic analysis in wanna and seemsta project, brainstorming study ideas for future work on reflexives under ellipsis, refinement of new automated participant recruitment via Qualtrics.

Project updates on Korean demonstrative data collection, Spanish maze task data analysis, and ongoing 'wanna' contraction projects. 

Discussion of Marty et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.980 in relation to ongoing Korean data collection using pairwise presentation, and brainstorming of other previous/planned studies that might be adapted for replication. Discussion of best-suited data collection platform (Pavlovia vs. Qualtrics). 

Discussion of Park (2023) (link to paper) reporting a study on the use of demonstratives in various contexts in Korean, as part of planning for future data collection in Korean Demonstrative Project

Members discussed issues of judgment task design and power raised in Sprouse and Almeida (2017) https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.980 

The Experimental Syntax Lab, along with the Language Research Centre, hosted a four-day intensive course on Visual World Eyetracking taught by Dr. Brian Dillon from UMass Amherst. Students from across Canada learned methods for experiment design, implementation, and analysis.

Lab members Maria Mercedes Estrada-Caro, Kyumin Kim, Diego Krivochen, Francisco Ongay González, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko and Jesse Weir presented a total of six talks and posters on ongoing work at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.