Travel and News
Upcoming Lectures
- Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) Saarbruecken, Germany Feb 13-15, 2025
- LOT summer school Antwerp, June 23-28, 2025
- LSA Summer Institute course July 7-22, 2025
- Schloss Dagstuhl seminar on Linguistics and LLMs July 25, 2025
Welcome to Supantho Rakshit! Coming to us from ECE

Congratulations!
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Nicole Cuneo and Abby Fergus GradFUTURES Social Impact Fellowships!
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Hailey Lambert (P '25) named Udall Scholar
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2024
July 2024

Huge congrats to Leonie Weissweiler for defending her PhD! We were so lucky to have her visit us for three months and can’t wait to see what she does next!
May 2024

Happy Summer!
March 2024
The Psychology of Language Lab goes to the museum! We spent the day at the Liberty Science Center collecting data for a study investigating children’s understanding of metaphors.
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Table at Liberty Science Center
March 2024
It’s conference season! Adele, Nicole, and Abby went to MoLA, and Arielle and Sarah went to CDS. Nicole presented work about how autistic adults generalize constructions, and Arielle presented a study about the influences of pretend play on persistence.
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CDS Presentation
Travels
March
- Nicole Cuneo to present poster on construction learning in autistic and NT individuals at MOLA (Meeting on Language and Autism at Duke)
- AEG heading to MOLA, then CALP (Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy) in Erlangen, Germany for an honorary degree and lecture
May
- Abby Fergus to present poster on verbatim memory at HSP (Human sentencing Processing) in Michigan!
- AEG heading to HSP and then Ghent for talk at Unraveling Productivity conference!
June
- AEG giving a week-long course on Experimental Grammar on Porquerolles island
2023
October

Happy Halloween!
Fall

Lab bonding at Color Me Mine!! We created an army of frogs to guard our lab space

Welcome to Abby Fergus, our new grad student!

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Hawkins for accepting a tenure track job Stanford!
2022
July 2022
Welcome to Arielle Belluck (Wellesley ’22) as our new lab manager!

Hope to see you in Toronto for the Cognitive Science Society! we’ll be there!
- Karina Tachihara & AE Goldberg (2022). Language learners’ unacceptability judgments improve with repeated exposure to acceptable sentences (talk)
- Savi Namboodiripad, Nicole Cuneo, Mathew Kramer, Yourdanis Sedarous, Yushi Sugimoto, Felicia Bisnath, AE Goldberg. (2022) Backgroundedness predicts island status of non-finite adjuncts in English (talk)
- Crystal Lee, Casey Lew-Williams & AE Goldberg (2022). Accessibility factors that lead to good-enough language production (poster)
- Nicole Cuneo & AE Goldberg (2022). Island effects without extraction: The discourse function of constructions predicts island status (poster)

Adele Goldberg is honored to become the new chair of the (international) Cognitive Science Society (’22-’24)
May 2022

Dr. Karina Tachihara graduation!