{"id":4277,"date":"2012-06-25T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T23:23:09","slug":"student-doings-since-we-last-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/06\/25\/student-doings-since-we-last-wrote\/","title":{"rendered":"Student doings since we last wrote"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ayakasug\/www\/index.html\"><strong>Ayaka Sugawara<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/\"><strong>Mitcho Erlewine<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hkotek\/www\/\"><strong>Hadas Kotek<\/strong><\/a> all gave talks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.nii.ac.jp\/~kanazawa\/semantics\/2012\/0615\/index.html\">Semantics Reading Group<\/a> in Tokyo. \u00a0Ayaka spoke on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/research.nii.ac.jp\/~kanazawa\/semantics\/2012\/0615\/short_abstract_ish.pdf\">Semantics of English suffix\u00a0<em>-ish<\/em>\u00a0as a degree head<\/a>&#8221;, Hadas talked about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/research.nii.ac.jp\/~kanazawa\/semantics\/2012\/0615\/Intervention%20effects%20as%20diagnosing%20question%20LFs.pdf\">Intervention effects as diagnosing interrogative LFs<\/a>&#8221;, and Mitcho presented a paper entitled &#8220;Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses and Maximal Informativeness&#8221;. \u00a0The same trio then proceeded to\u00a0Tohoku University in Sendai, where Hadas spoke about &#8220;Experimental Investigations of\u00a0<em>most<\/em>&#8221;, Mitcho discussed\u00a0&#8221;Kaqchikel Agent Focus: new evidence from multiple extraction constructions.&#8221;, and Ayaka presented &#8220;Nature of QR: Evidence from first language acquisition of ACD (joint work with Hadask Kotek, Martin Hackl, and Ken Wexler)&#8221; &#8212; followed by a discussion of the joint project with members of <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tohoku.ac.jp\/whois\/e_detail\/c20f69c4fa34a7748d206cd4730370a9.html\"><strong>Masatoshi Koizumi<\/strong><\/a>&#8217;s (PhD 1995) lab.<\/li>\n<li>In an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2012\/02\/06\/graff-scontras-goodman-paper-accepted-to-cognition\/\">Whamit!<\/a>, we reported the acceptance of the paper &#8220;Comparing Pluralities&#8221; by Gregory Scontras, 5th-year student <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/graff\/www\/\">Peter Graff<\/a><\/strong> and Noah Goodman by the journal <em>Cognition<\/em>. \u00a0That paper has now appeared, and is the topic of a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/comparing-pluralities-0611.html\">nice article by the MIT News Office<\/a>. \u00a0Have a look!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayaka Sugawara, Mitcho Erlewine and Hadas Kotek all gave talks at the Semantics Reading Group in Tokyo. \u00a0Ayaka spoke on &#8220;Semantics of English suffix\u00a0-ish\u00a0as a degree head&#8221;, Hadas talked about &#8220;Intervention effects as diagnosing interrogative LFs&#8221;, and Mitcho presented a paper entitled &#8220;Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses and Maximal Informativeness&#8221;. \u00a0The same trio then proceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}