{"id":4880,"date":"2013-03-04T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2013-03-04T05:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:03:25","slug":"nsf-dissertation-grant-for-hadas-kotek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/03\/04\/nsf-dissertation-grant-for-hadas-kotek\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF dissertation grant for Hadas Kotek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year graduate student <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hkotek\/www\/\">Hadas Kotek<\/a><\/strong> has been awarded a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/sbe\/bcs\/ling\/suppdiss.jsp\"><strong>Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant<\/strong><\/a> by the <strong>National Science Foundation<\/strong> that will allow her to\u00a0conduct linguistic experimental work on the real-time processing of multiple <i>wh<\/i>-questions in English.\u00a0 Her project, entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Experimental Investigations of Multiple Wh-Questions<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; \u00a0will test the differing predictions of two prominent approaches to the syntax and semantics of these questions &#8212; focusing on so-called <i>intervention effects<\/i>, which have been central to current debates about the syntax and semantics of multiple <i>wh<\/i>-questions. \u00a0 The research will be carried out at our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/hackl\/www\/lab\/\">Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab<\/a>.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/hackl\/\">Martin Hackl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/pesetsky\/\">David Pesetsky<\/a> are the faculty co-investigators on the grant.)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Hadas!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-year graduate student Hadas Kotek has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant by the National Science Foundation that will allow her to\u00a0conduct linguistic experimental work on the real-time processing of multiple wh-questions in English.\u00a0 Her project, entitled &#8220;Experimental Investigations of Multiple Wh-Questions&#8221; \u00a0will test the differing predictions of two prominent approaches to the syntax [&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-4880","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\/4880","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=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}