Articles from January 2022

Graduate student featured in 'Dare to Discover' campaign
Friday, January 14, 2022
Learn more about how a graduate student Ronald Goku was featured in a campaign
Jennifer Shyue recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship
Friday, January 14, 2022
Jennifer Shyue is the newest recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship.
Kelsi Vanada and Michelle Gill-Montero long-listed for 2022 PEN Prize
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Kelsi Vanada and Michelle Gill-Montero, translation and poetry MFA graduates, have been long-listed for the 2022 PEN Literary Prize in Poetry Translation.
Andrea Rosenberg selected as runner-up for 2021 Queen Sofia Prize
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Andrea Rosenberg was a runner-up for the 2021 Queen Sofia Prize.
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs
Friday, January 7, 2022
This study builds on prior research on second language (L2) Spanish psych verbs, which has centered on morphosyntactic properties, by examining their syntactic distribution, which relies on lexical semantic knowledge. The fact that certain forms are licensed for some verbs, but not others, is the result of an underlying lexical semantic difference across verb classes, represented here as a difference in formal feature strength.
"Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank" exhibit from January 18 - March 2, 2022
Friday, January 7, 2022
Making use of large size pictures, the exhibition Let Me Be Myself - The Life Story of Anne Frank shows the story of Anne Frank from her birth in 1929 up to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

Division of Interdisciplinary Programs 2020-2021 Annual Report
Thursday, January 6, 2022
The Division of Interdisciplinary Programs is pleased to present its 2020-2021 Annual Report.
Does Race Impact Sentence Predictability? An Account of Accented Speech in Two Different Multilingual Locales
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Upon hearing someone’s speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker’s age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an open question is whether living in different locales modulates how listeners use these factors to assess speakers’ speech. Here, an audio-visual test was used to measure whether listeners’ accentedness judgments and intelligibility (i.e., speech perception) can be modulated depending on racial information in faces that they see.