ANNA VERBUK

I received a Ph.D. from the UMass, Amherst Linguistics department in 2007.

Dissertation: "Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures."

2007 – 2008: postdoctoral fellow in CRLMB at McGill University working on a project on the acquisition of Relevance implicatures.

PAPERS

Verbuk, Anna and Thomas Schultz, Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures: a Case against a Rationality-Based Account of Conversational Implicatures. A paper submitted to the Journal of Pragmatics.

Verbuk, Anna, Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures: Evidence against the Theoretical Distinction between Horn and Pragmatic Scales. A paper submitted to the Journal of Child Language.

Verbuk, Anna and Tom Roeper, How Pragmatics and Syntax Make Principle B Acquirable. (Accepted with revisions, 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:

Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures and Modularity. (2008). Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 33). Boston University, Boston.

The Role of the Lexical Component in the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures. (2008). Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 3 (GALANA 3). University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Anna Verbuk and Thomas Shultz, Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures: Toward Isolating the Linguistic Component of Reasoning. (2008). Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 44). Chicago University, Chicago.

The Role of the Lexical Component in the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures. Experimental Pragmatics. (2007). Cancelled. Berlin, Germany.

Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures. (2007). Invited talk. McGill University, Linguistics Department. Montréal, Canada.

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, Germany.

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). Boston University, Boston.

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.

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

NSF grant BSC-0418311: The Russian Genitive of Negation: Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics.
RA to Barbara Partee.
Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Spring 2006.

NSF grant BCS-0527509: The Project on Epistemology and Indexicality in Navaho, Tibetan and English.
RA to Tom Roeper and Peggy Speas.
Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007.

NSF grant BCS-0527509: The Project on Epistemology and Indexicality in Navaho, Tibetan and English. Consultant.
Fall 2007.

FELLOWSHIPS:

Post-doctoral Fellowship from The Center for Research on Language, Mind and Brain. McGill University. 2007 - 2008.

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

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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Member, organizing committee, UMass Amherst, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW). 2005.

Assistant Editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. City University of New York, Graduate Center. 2000 - 2001.

Last updated: September 2008