3rd year Ph.D. student Erika Mayer gave a talk at the 20th annual European Conference on Eye Movements in Alicante, Spain entitled “Negation and semantic relatedness in eye-tracking-while-reading”: click through for a link to her slides! Erika was also a co-author on a second talk at the same conference, entitled “The time-course and source of lexical predictability effects in reading.” Congratulations, Erika!

Congratulations to Sakshi Bhatia, who has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, working with Kumiko Fukumura (University of Stirling) and Samar Husain (IIT Delhi). Sakshi will be working on a series of experiments that investigate what referring devices Hindi speakers use in different pragmatic contexts, as part of a broader experimental project that investigates cross-linguistic differences in this domain. Congratulations, Sakshi: we’re really looking forward to seeing what you discover!

Congratulations are in order for Shayne Sloggett, who has just officially accepted a position as the Experimental Officer in Psycholinguistics at York University. There he will teach experimental methods and experimental linguistics, with a focus on eye-tracking-while-reading. Best of luck, Shayne!

For May and June, Brian Dillon was a Chaire Internationale at Paris Diderot VII. He offered a four-week course entitled “Acceptability, Decision-Making, and Parsing.” His course examined recent work that uses decision-making models from cognitive psychology to model the process of forming acceptability judgments, and surveyed how researchers have used these models to gain insight into the moment-by-moment processes that underlie real-time syntactic processing.