Spring 2023

All meetings are scheduled to be held in-person in FLB 4100 on Fridays (2-3pm). If you would like to join over Zoom, please e-mail Amy at ayg2@illinois.edu.

Day Speaker Topic
Jan 27   Organizational Meeting
Feb 3 Amy Ambiguous relative clause attachment in L1-Japanese L2-English speakers
Feb 10 Isela Kandel & Phillips (2022) “Number attraction in verb and anaphor production”
Feb 17 Amy Norris (2015) “Statistical significance testing in second language acquisition: Basic problems and suggestions for reform”
Feb 24 Paul Aguilar et al. (2022) “Locality and attachment preferences in pre-verbal versus post-verbal relative clauses”
Mar 3 NO MEETING (ILLS)
Mar 10 NO MEETING
Mar 17 NO MEETING (Spring Break)
Mar 24 Hanna Statistical Power & Vasishth et al. (2018) “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability” 
Mar 31 Amelia Plonsky & Oswald (2014) “How big is “Big”? Interpreting Effect Sizes in L2 Research”
Apr 7 NO MEETING
Apr 14 Amy; Yvette Eye-Tracking
Apr 21 Amy English Articles Pilot Study
Apr 28 NO MEETING