There will be two presentations at the next Experimental Labs meeting.

The first by Alex Goebel: My presentation will consist of two parts. In the first part, I will talk about an experiment (which I hope will be run by then) that is supposed to investigate the sensitivity of pronoun resolution in a discourse to the Non At-Issue – At-Issue distinction. The second part will be more of an open discussion regarding (i) the design of a direct follow-up study that is supposed to test the same sensitivities with different types of presupposed content and – if time allows for it – (ii) an extension of processing data of appositives collected here at UMass to a type of adverbial clause in German.

In case people find themselves interested and/or bored, background readings would be Dillon et al. (2014) (for those who haven’t read or written it) and Jasinskaja (2016) ‘Not at issue anymore’, a manuscript available here:

http://dslc.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/dslc/katja_files/jasinskaja_any_more.pdf

The second will be by Matt Frelinger: At the experimental labs meeting next week I will be presenting a proposal for a research project investigating the extent to which implicit intonation contours generated during silent reading affect performance on memory tasks.  I know that some people in the department have done a lot of work on implicit prosody, so I am looking forward to getting a lot of input and advice!