Dimitrios Skordos has received the competitive University Dissertation Fellows Award for the 2012-2013 year. Skordos' dissertation examines children’s understanding of a type of pragmatic inference called scalar implicature (SI) in order to shed light on important questions regarding the nature of early conversational inferences and the mechanisms used to generate them.

Dimitrios Skordos is advised by Dr. Anna Papafragou.

Lan Kim has received a competitive UD graduate research fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The primary goals of Kim's dissertation are to investigate how affectedness constructions (i.e. benefactive and malefactive constructions) are expressed in Korean, Japanese, and Khmer, and to provide the analysis of how these languages are significant for linguistic theory as well as linguistic typology.

Lan Kim is advised by Dr. Satoshi Tomioka.

PhD students Evan Bradley and Regine Lai are presenting their research this week in Portland, Oregon at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.