Young Scholar Awards
SHSP has a long tradition of honoring young scholars for research presented at its annual meeting.
Since 2022, the Gibson/Fedorenko Young Scholar Award is presented to honor young scholars who present outstanding scientific work as a talk at the annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Each year, two scholars are selected for the award. Each of the two awardees receive $1000. Two honorable mentions are also awarded.
From 2001 to 2021, the Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award was awarded for the paper or poster presented at the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing best exemplifying the qualities of intellectual rigor, creativity and independence of thought, which characterized the life and work of Dr. Jerrold J. Katz.
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Gibson/Fedorenko Young Scholar Award (2022-)
The award selection is made by a subcommittee composed of members of the executive committee, plus Edward Gibson. Individual members of the subcommittee will not participate if they have a conflict of interest, which occurs if any of the candidates come from the same department or research group as that individual. Current students/postdocs of the award donors, or authors of talks on which the award donors are co-authors, are not eligible for the award.
The money for this award has been generously provided by Ted Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko, and an anonymous donor. Ted Gibson and Evelina Fedorenko named this prize in honor of their parents:
Svetlana and Georgiy Fedorenko
Lila Elizabeth McPhedran and James Douglas Gibson
all of whom supported them to pursue scientific research into human language.
Gibson/Fedorenko Young Scholar Awards
2023 HSP36 at Pitt
(Colgate)
Studying relative clause representations: a novel parsing model and priming paradigm (with Tal Linzen)
(UMass)
An infrequent, large cost underlies garden path effects: an RT distribution approach (with Brian Dillon)
Honorable mentions
Sanghee Kim (University of Chicago): Memory retrieval is sensitive to discourse status: through the lens of pronoun resolution (with Ming Xiang)
Zach Maher (UMD): They know who speak this way: knowledge of variation in listeners with different experiences of African American language (with Jan Edwards and Jared Novick)
2022 HSP35 at UCSC
Vishal Arvindam
(UCSC)
Anti-local anaphors in Telugu are subject to local antecedent interference (with Matt Wagers)
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee
(Penn)
Where do you think the ball is?: Using webcam-based eye-tracking to investigate mental representations of object locations in transfer-of-possession events (with Elsi Kaiser)
Honorable mentions
Eun-Kyoung Rosa Lee (UMD): Argument roles and verb expectations: Narrowing a comprehension-production contrast (with Masato Nakamura, Hanna Muller, Colin Phillips)
Sanghee Kim (Chicago): Memory retrieval selectively targets different discourse units (with Ming Xiang)
Sebastian Sauppe (Zurich): The Agent Bias in Comprehension is Robust in an OVS Language, at least for Human Referents: Evidence from Äiwoo (Solomon Islands) (with Åshild Næss, Giovanni Roversi, Martin Meyer, Ina Bornkessel-Schleswesky, Balthasar Bickel)
Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Awards
2021 CUNY34 at Penn
Rebecca Tollan (Delaware)
The dual nature of subjecthood: Unifying subject islands and that-trace effects (with Bilge Palaz)
2012-2021
2021 Rebecca Tollan
2020 Marju Kaps
2019 Tyler Knowlton
2018 Liv Hoversten
2017 Matthew Lowder
2016 Lap-Ching Keung
2015 Idan Blank
2014 Dan Parker
2013 Chigusa Kurumada
2012 Jana Häussler
2001-2011
2011 Sol Lago, Wing Yee Chow
2010 Adriana Hanulíková
2009 Adrian Staub
2008 Gunnar Jacob
2007 T. Florian Jaeger, Neal Snider
2006 Scott Jackson
2005 Sachiko Aoshima
2004 Andrew Nevins
2003 Britta Stolterfoht
2002 John Hale