At the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA) on Mallorca, Jill deVilliers, Tom Roeper, and Jessica Kotfila gave presented a talk on 3 clause Long -Distance extraction “When do Children Use Recursion” and Tom Roeper, Jennifer Rau, Dagmar Bittner, Nadine Balbach, Milena Kuehnast, gave a talk “Cbildren do not Repair Presuppositions”. Former UMass visitors Anca Sevcenco, Maria Arche. Petra Schulz, and Angeliek van Hout all were involved in presentations as well.

Talking Brains Exhibit [Cosmo Caixa Museum Barcleona]

Angeliek van Hout and Tom Roeper visited the “Talking Brains” exhibit which has half a dozen ongoing language exhibits currently that involve experimentation in parsing and spectrogram visualization etc, as well as exhibits on parameter-setting and other linguistic principles.  We conferred with Wolfram Hinzen and his associates about bringing the NEMO Amsterdam exhibit on recursion to this Barcelona Science Museum.   The organizers were very positive about the possibility.