Our Research

Han-Chung-hye, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, Jesse Weir, Sara Williamson and Keir Moulton. 2026. Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the maze task. Glossa Psycholinguistics 5(1): 7, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011.52828 

Han, Chung-hye, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron, Margaret Grant, Sander Nederveen, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, Jesse Weir, Sara Williamson and Keir Moulton. 2025. Underspecified they becomes Specified Early in Sentence Processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 40(4), 508-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2443975 

Bliss, Heather, Richard Compton and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko. 2023. The Typology of Pronouns. In Routledge Handbook of Pronouns. Ed. Laura Paterson. 7-28. Publisher's Site

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Mahyar Nakhaei. 2023. The Nature and Licensing of hitʃ-elements in Persian. In Advances in Iranian Linguistics II (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 361). Eds. Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngu. 282-306. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361 

Moulton, Keir, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron, Dennis Storoshenko, Jesse Weir, Sara Williamson and Chung-hye Han. 2022. Bound Variable Singular They is Underspecified: The Case of All vs Every. Frontiers in Psychology13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.880687 

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Francisco Ongay González. Temporal Modification, Valence, and (A)Telicity in English. Paper presented at the 2026 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Calgary, AB, June 2026. 

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Maria Mercedes Estrada Caro. Processing of Embedded Clause Gapping in Spanish. Paper presented at the 2026 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Calgary, AB, June 2026. 

Weir, Jesse. There seemsta be a difference here, and I wanna find it. Poster presented at the 2026 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Calgary, AB, June 2026. *Student poster contest honourable mention

Weir, Jesse. I wanna sound human: examining a casual speech phenomenon that large language models fail to recognize. Presented at the Transdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Hub Symposium: Calgary, AB., May 2026.

Xia, Xinyuan. 2025. Revisiting composite A/A’ movement in the Mandarin BEI-passive construction. Paper presented at Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL): Edmonton, AB., October 2025.

Williamson, Sara, Jesse Weir, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron, Keir Moulton, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko and Chung-hye Han. Processing of Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses by English Speakers. Paper presented at the 2025 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Montreal, QC, June 2025.  

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Reflexive Interpretation under Coordinate and Subordinate Ellipsis in English. Paper presented at the 2025 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Montreal, QC, June 2025.  

Ongay González, Francisco. 2025. Prepositional and prepositionless durative adverbials in Spanish. Proceedings of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Link to paper *Student poster contest winner

Weir, Jesse. Getting PRO Back Under Control: Searching for phonetic evidence of a null pronominal. Poster presented at the 2025 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Montreal, QC, June 2025.  

Xia, Xinyuan. 2025. Chinese Relative Clause Processing: Insights into Prenominal and Postnominal Structures. Paper presented at the 2025 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Montreal, QC, June 2025.  

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Apparent Inverse Scope in Korean Case-Marked Adverbials. Poster Presented at the 31^st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 31): Melbourne, Australia, November 2024

Xia, Xinyuan. 2024. Comparing Processing of Chinese Prenominal and Postnominal Relative Clauses: Evidence for the Distance-based Account.   Paper presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL): Calgary, AB., October 2024.

Ongay González, Francisco. 2024. Adjunction, but not Adjoining: A Proposal for the Treatment of Nominal Adjuncts in Tree Adjoining Grammar. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 33. Link to paper

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Jesse Weir. Trial Item Content Impacts Island Effects in Online Processing of English. Poster presented at the 2024 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Ottawa, ON, June 2024.

Weir, J., Laurentian French Affrication: A match theory approach. Poster presented at the 2024 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Ottawa, ON, June 2024.

Ongay González, Francisco. 2023. A raising account of llevar + time in Spanish. Poster presented at the 2023 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Toronto, ON, May 2023. Link to Paper

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Semantics or Agreement? Factors Governing use of English themself. Paper presented at the 2023 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Toronto, ON, May 2023.  

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Separating Tense and Agreement in Persian Control. Poster presented at the 3^rdNorth American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 3): Los Angeles, April 2023.

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. The Role of Word Order on Binding Constraints: Comparing Persian and Korean. Poster Presented at the 30^th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 30): Vancouver, BC, March 2023.

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Jesse Weir. 2022. Does Gender Bias Affect the Interpretation of English Sloppy Ellipsis? In Proceedings of the 2022 Virtual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: May 2022. Link to paper

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Jesse Weir. Gender Stereotype Subversion Across English wh-Islands. Poster Presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association: online event, June 2021.

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Online Communities of Use for Neoreflexives. Paper presented at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference 27: online event, May 2021.

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan, Jesse Weir and Adam Daniel. 2021. On the Apparent Singularity of English themself. Paper presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America: online event, Jan 2021.