Curriculum Vitae

Ehren Michael Reilly

Department of Cognitive Science | Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
3400 N. Charles Street | Krieger Hall Room 245
Baltimore, MD 21218-2685

Phone: 410.516.8295 | Fax: 410.516.8020 | Email: reilly@cogsci.jhu.edu
Web page: http://www.cog.jhu.edu/grad-students/reilly/index.htm

Education

M.A., 2005, Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Thesis: Ergativity and agreement splits at the syntax/phonology interface.

Advisor: Dr. Géradine Legendre

Graduate GPA: 3.99

B.A., 2002, Linguistics, Carleton College

Concentration: Cognitive Studies

GPA in Linguistics: 3.75

Overall GPA: 3.37

Senior Honors Thesis: A Survey of Texistepec Popoluca Verbal Morphology

Committee: Dr. Mark Hansell, Dr. Michael Flynn

Employment

Title: Instructor of English.

Employer: NOVA Group of Japan, Shin-Koiwa Branch, Tokyo, Japan.

Dates: August 2002 - June 2003

Publications

(In preparation). with Catherine Bereznak and Terrence Kaufman. Texistepec Popoluca/English/Spanish Dictionary (approx. 6,500 items). To be posted at http://www.albany.edu/anthro/maldp/tex.html

(To appear). Choosing just the right amount of over-application in Texistepec Popoluca. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papers in Optimality Theory III. Leah Bateman, Adam Werle, Michael O'Keefe, and Ehren Reilly, eds.

(2004). Promiscuous Paradigms and the Morphologically Conditioned ‘Ergative Split’ in Texistepec Popoluca (Zoquean). To appear in the proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society 30, Special Session on the Morphology of Native American Languages.

Editorships

(To appear). University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 33: Papers in Optimality Theory III, Leah Bateman, Adam Werle, Michael O'Keefe, and Ehren Reilly, eds.

Presentations & Posters

(2005). Morphological and phonological sources of split ergative agreement. LSA Summer Institute Workshop: Recent Developments in OT Syntax & Semantics. Harvard University. July, 2005.

(2005). Choosing just the right amount of over-application: An acquisition puzzle in Texistepec Popoluca. Presented at the Hopkins University of Maryland Rutgers University of Massachusetts (HUMDRUM) Conference on Optimality Theory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. May, 2005.

(2005). (with Edward Gibson and Evan Chen). Reading time evidence for ranked parallel models of sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, University of Arizona. March, 2005.

(2005). How people learn different grammars from the same input: A stochastic OT model of inter-speaker variation in reduplicative overapplication in Texistepec Popoluca. Poster presented at the Hopkins Workshop on Language: Non-local Dependencies in Phonology and Syntax. January, 2005.

(2004). The Morphologically Conditioned Ergative Split in Texistepec Popoluca. Presented at the PDLMA Workshop, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico. July, 2003.

(2004). Morphologically Conditioned Ergative Splits: Promiscuous paradigms and morpho-phonological competition. Presented at the Hopkins University of Maryland Rutgers University of Massachusetts (HUMDRUM) Conference on Optimality Theory. Rutgers University. May, 2004.

(2004). Promiscuous Paradigms and the Morphologically Conditioned ‘Ergative Split’ in Texistepec Popoluca (Zoquean). Presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society 30, Special Session on the Morphology of Native American Languages. February, 2004.

(2003). Physical and Metaphorical Directions in Texistepec Popoluca. Presented at the PDLMA Workshop on Mixe-Zoquean Languages. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. July, 2003.

Conferences and Workshops Attended

2005

Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA. January, 2005.

Hopkins Workshop on Language: Non-local Dependencies in Phonology and Syntax. Baltimore MD. January, 2005

CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing. University of Arizona, March, 2005.

Hopkins University of Maryland Rutgers University of Massachusetts (HUMDRUM) Conference on Optimality Theory. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. May, 2005.

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. June-August, 2005. MIT and Harvard University.

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Workshop: Recent Developments in OT Syntax & Semantics. Harvard University. July, 2005.

2004

Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. January, 2004.

IGERT Workshop the Cognitive Science of Language: Integrative Approaches, Baltimore, MD. January, 2004.

Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA. February, 2004.

Hopkins University of Maryland Rutgers University of Massachusetts (HUMDRUM) Conference on Optimality Theory. Rutgers University. May, 2004.Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Meso-America Workshop Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico. July, 2003

2003

Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Meso-America Workshops on Mixe-Zoquean, Zapotecan and Mayan Languages. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. July, 2003

Conference on Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition, Baltimore. September, 2003

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. October, 2003

1999-2002

Chicago Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 35. Chicago, IL. April, 1999.

Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. January, 2000.

Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. January 2002.

Chicago Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 38. Chicago, IL. April, 2002.

Teaching Assistantships

Carleton College

SPAN101, Beginning Spanish. Fall, 2000

Professor Dianne Pearsall

LING110, Introduction to Linguistics. Spring, 2001

Professor Laurie Zaring

LING115, Introduction to the Theory of Syntax. Winter, 2002

Professor Michael Flynn

Johns Hopkins University

050-140, The World of Language. Spring, 2004.

Professor Géraldine Legendre

050-101, Cognition. Spring 2005.

Professor Robert Frank

050-320, Syntax. Fall 2005.

Professor Géraldine Legendre

Graduate Courses

Fall 2005

200-314 Advanced Statistical Methods (Yantis)

200-357 Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory (Stark)

050-672 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Neural Networks (Smolensky)

050-832 Research Seminar on Language Processing (Badecker)

Summer 2005 (LSA Summer Institute)

LSA.137 Voice and Case in Mayan (Judith Aissen)

LSA.221 Storage and Computation in the Mental Lexicon: An exemplar-based approach (Harald Baayen)

LSA.237 The Time Course of Language Change: A Corpus-based Perspective (Anthony Kroch)

LSA.206 Explaining Syntactic Universals (Martin Haspelmath)

LSA.230 To Move or not to Move: What are the Questions? (Robert Levine, Ivan Sag & David Pesetsky)

Spring 2005

050-821 Seminar on Coordination and Restructuring (Frank & Legendre)

050-825 Seminar on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in Linguistics (Burzio)

Fall 2004 (visiting student at MIT)

24.944 Neurolinguistics (Alec Marantz)

24.964 Topics in Phonology: Modeling Phonological Learning (Adam Albright)

24.970 Introduction to Semantics (Irene Heim)

Spring 2003

050-832 Seminar on Agreement (Badecker)

050-626 Foundations of Cognitive Science (Smolensky)

050-616 Morpho-Phonology (Burzio)

050-203 Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the Living Brain (Rapp)

Fall 2003

050-825 Research Seminar in Optimality Theory (Smolensky & Legendre)

050-670 Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Language (Frank)

050-630 Topics in Language Processing (Badecker)

050-811 Research Seminar in Language and Cognition (Landau)

050-638 Computational Tools for Cognitive Scientists (Jim Hoffman, University of Delaware)

Field Research

Investigation of Texistepec Popoluca language under the auspices of the Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Meso-America

Summer 2001: Catemaco, Veracuz, Mexico

Summer 2003: San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Summer 2004: Catemaco and Texistepec, Veracuz, Mexico

Other Major Research

Graduate

(with Anna Holt) Only base frequency modulates the M350 response: new evidence on the source of surface frequency effects for affixed words. Fall 2004. Neurolinguistics

Garden Path Words: unacceptability versus ungrammaticality in affix ordering.

Fall, 2003. Seminar in Language Processing

Undergraduate

Verb Semantics and Restrictions on English Dative Shift: A Response to Pinker. Winter, 2000. Topics in Semantics

A Typological Survey of Basque.

Winter, 2000. Language Universals.

Object Control and Exceptional Case Marking In Vietnamese.

Spring, 2000. Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language.

Eddie Goes to Washington: A Case Study of Logical Fallacies and Decision-Making.

Spring, 2000. Thinking, Reason and Decision Making.

A Survey and Synthesis the Work of Peter Eimas.

Fall, 2000. Developmental Psychology.

The Relationship Between English and the Set of Context-Free Languages.

Spring, 2001. Natural Language Processing.

Academic Honors and Fellowships

National Merit Scholar. 1998-2002.

Carleton College Distinguished Scholar. 1998-2002.

Carleton College Class of 1963 Independent Research Fellowship. 2001.

Awarded Departmental Honors in Linguistics. 2002.

Awarded Distinction for Senior Thesis in Linguistics. 2002.

Graduated Cum Laude. Carleton College. Spring 2002.

Other Academic Activities

Member of the Linguistic Society of America since 2003.

Member of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas since 2004.

Languages Spoken

High fluency: English (native language), Spanish

Conversational Ability: French, Japanese, Texistepec Popoluca (Zoquean)

Familiarity/Competence: Italian