ANNA VERBUK

Department of Linguistics
226 South College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MA 01003

I specialize in the acquisition of semantics and pragmatics.

Dissertation: "Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures."

In November 2007, I will start a postdoc in CRLMB at McGill University working under the supervision of professor Thomas Shultz. I will work on my own project on the acquisition of Relevance implicatures.

PAPERS:

Verbuk, Anna and Tom Roeper, How Pragmatics and Syntax Make Principle B Acquirable. A paper submitted to "Language Acquisition."

Verbuk, Anna, Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures: When Some of the Crayons will Do the Job. (2006). Online Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 31).

Verbuk, Anna, Acquisition of Principle B: Evidence from Evans-Style Contexts. (2006). In Alyona Belikova, Luisa Meroni and Mari Umeda (eds.) Cascadilla Press -- Somerville -- MA. Proceedings of the Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition -- North America 2 (GALANA 2).

Verbuk, Anna, Acquisition of Supplementary Expressions. (2006). In Tanja Heizmann (eds.) UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics 34: The Acquisition Connection to Syntax and Semantics.

Verbuk, Anna, The Acquisition of the Russian Or. (2006). Proceedings of Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 06). California State University, Fresno.

Verbuk, Anna, Russian Predicate Clefts as S-Topic Constructions. (2006). Chapter in book, editors: James Lavine, Steven L. Franks, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva and Hana Filip Collection: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Princeton Meeting 2005 (FASL 14). Bibliography: Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, pp. 394-408.

Verbuk, Anna, Russian Predicate Clefts: Tensions between Semantics and Pragmatics. (2006). Article in book, editors: Christian Ebert & Cornelia Endriss Collection: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. Bibliography: ZAS Papers in Linguistics 44, 6. Berlin. pp. 389-403.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Why Children do not Compute Irrelevant Scalar Implicatures. Linguistic Society of America (LSA). 2007. Anaheim, California.

Tom Roeper, Anna Verbuk. Implicatures and Discourse in Pronoun Resolution. 2006. Invited talk given at Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language. Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research. (ZAS) Berlin.

Acquisition of Principle B: Evidence from Exceptional Coreference Contexts. 2006. UMass Amherst, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW).

Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures: When Some of the Crayons will Do the Job. 2006. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 31).

The Acquisition of the Russian Or. 2006. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 06). California State University, Fresno.

Acquisition of Principle B: Evidence from Evans-Style Contexts. 2006. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition -- North America 2 (GALANA 2). McGill University. Montréal.

Russian Predicate Clefts as a Case of S-Topic Constructions. 2005. Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-6). University of Potsdam, Potsdam.

Russian Predicate Clefts as S-Topic Constructions. 2005. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. (FASL 14). Princeton University, Princeton.

Russian Predicate Clefts: Tensions Between Semantics and Pragmatics. 2005. Sinn und Bedeutung, (SuB 10). Humboldt University, Berlin.

Acquisition of Supplementary Expressions. 2005. Experimental Pragmatics: Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Conversation. University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Acquisition of Supplementary Expressions. 2004. UMass Amherst, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW).

Acquisition of Conventional Implicatures. 2003. UMass Amherst, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW).

TEACHING:

People and their Language (Ling 101). Summer 2004: Instructor. Fall 2004: TA to Peggy Speas.

Introduction to Language Acquisition (Ling 411). Spring 2005: TA to Tom Roeper.

Introduction to Linguistic Theory (Ling 201). Fall 2005: Instructor.

WORK RELATED TO GRANTS:

The Russian Genitive of Negation: Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics. Summer 2005: RA to Barbara Partee;

Spring 2006: RA to Barbara Partee. A paper: The Acquisition of the Russian Or.

The Project on Epistemology and Indexicality in Navaho, Tibetan and English. Summer 2006: RA to Tom Roeper and Peggy Speas; the school year of 2006-07: RA to Tom Roeper and Peggy Speas.

FELLOWSHIPS:

First Year Fellowship, Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2002-2003.

Psycholinguistics Training Grant, Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2003-2004.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Assistant Editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. City University of New York, Graduate Center.

LINKS:
UMass Linguistics Department
UMass Acquisition Lab Resources
WHISC
GLSA
Last updated: August 1, 2007