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Joleen Chu has been awarded the Government Scholarship for Study Abroad (GSSA) offered by Taiwan government for her Ph.D. dissertation research proposal titled "Acquisition of demonstratives and cognitive development: Cross-linguistic research on child Mandarin and child English". (April, 2012)

Joleen Chu has been awarded the Frances Ingemann Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. This award, endowed by Prof. Ingemann, is given annually to an outstanding graduate student and considered the highest honor for Linguistics graduate students. (March, 2012)

Lab members presented in conferences in November, 2011.

Naoko Takami and Utako Minai presented a study on second language acquisition of semantic/pragmatic meaning at Boston University Conference on Language Development. (November 4-6, 2011)

Utako Minai presented a colaborative study on second language acquisition of logical words in Japanese with Takuya Goro (Tsuda College, Japan) at Boston University Conference on Language Development. (November 4-6, 2011)
Lamar Hunt III and Utako Minai presented a collaborative study on processing of semantic/pragmatic meaning at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language with Stephen Politzer-Ahles and Robert Fiorentino (Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Lab, Linguistics). (November 9-11, 2011)
Utako Minai presented a collaborative study on processing of Japanese ambiguous sentences at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language with Yuka Naito-Billen and Robert Fiorentino (Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Lab, Linguistics). (November 9-11, 2011)

Utako Minai presented a collaborative study on scrambling in child Japanese with Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan) and Reiko Okabe (Nihon University, Japan) at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2011 held in Thessaloniki, Greece. (September 8-10, 2011)

Utako Minai will publish a co-authored article on Japanese-speaking children and adults' use of intonation in contrast resolution in Journal of Memory and Language, with Kiwako Ito (Ohio State University/RIKEN BSI, Japan), Nobuyuki Jincho (RIKEN BSI, Japan), Naoto Yamane (RIKEN BSI, Japan) and Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN BSI, Japan/Duke University). (in press, November 2011)

Utako Minai will publish a co-authored article on Japanese-speaking children's semantic computation and their cognitive development in Journal of Child Language, with Nobuyuki Jincho (RIKEN BSI, Japan), Naoto Yamane (RIKEN BSI, Japan) and Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN BSI, Japan/Duke University). (in press, November 2011)

Department of Linguistics will host the 5th Generative Approaches to Language Development - North America (GALANA 5) in October, 2012, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.