Jed Sam Guevara (“Summer update” series)

Jed Sam Guevara was an invited speaker at 16th International Conference on Austronesian Languages (June 20-24), where he gave a plenary talk entitled “The state of the art in Philippine psycholinguistics.” Additionally, with Alessa Farinella, he visited the Linguistics Department at the University of the Philippines Diliman. At UP, Jed and Alessa ran a visual world experiment designed to investigate the extent to which Tagalog comprehenders leverage Principle A to guide their real-time interpretation of reflexives, and the extent to which their attention is mediated by the morphological/thematic similarity between DPs in working memory. Jed and Alessa also collaborated as part of the organizing team for the 31st annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, which took place here at UMass June 12-14.