Megan Gotowski 

Publications

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[14] Gotowski, Megan & Syrett, Kristen. (2024). Using Syntax and Semantics to Acquire Subjective Adjective Meanings. Language Acquisition.

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[13] Messick, Troy, Deprez, Viviane & Gotowski, Megan. (2023). P-stranding, evasion, and what they (might) mean for ellipsis identity. Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch.

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[12] Deprez, Viviane & Gotowski, Megan. (2022). Probing the impact of register, familiarity, and information state on the form of French-questions. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt. 

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[11] Gotowski, Megan (2022). Quoi-sluices in French. Glossa 7.1. [PDF]

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[10] Gotowski, Megan & Kristen Syrett. (2020). Investigating the Hypothesis Space for Children's Interpretations of Comparatives. The Proceedings of BUCLD. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

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[9] Gotowski, Megan. (2019). La règle du Jeu: Verlan as an Example of Anti-Faithfulness. Linguistica Atlantica 37.2. [PDF]

 

[8] Gotowski, Megan. (2018). The Acquisition of the Get-Passive. Language Acquisition 26.1. (click here for the full article)

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[7] Gotowski, Megan. (2018). Wh-In-Situ Production in Child French. Linguistica Atlantica 36.2 [PDF]

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[6] Gotowski, Megan. (2017). Invisible Structure: Sluicing in Child Grammar. In UW-Madison LSO Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10:  Proceedings of the 14th Workshop in General Linguistics. 

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[5] Gotowski, Megan. In Press. Secondary Agents in Get-Passives: Syntax or Pragmatics? In The Linguistics Society of the University of Georgia (LSUGA) Conference Proceedings: Volume 2. 

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[4] Gotowski, Megan. (2017). Raising or Control? Children's Early Get-Passives. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Vol. 2. [PDF]

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[3] Gotowski, Megan & Becker, Misha. (2016). An information structural account of children’s wh-in situ questions in French. In The Proceedings of GALANA 6. Somerville: Cascadilla Press. [PDF]

 

[2] Gotowski, Megan. (2015). Subject doubling in child French. In U. of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 21.1. [PDF] 

 

[1] Gotowski, Megan. (2014). Subject clitics in child French. MA Thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Manuscripts

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Gotowski, Megan. "Wh-Questions in Child French: A Note on Pourquoi" Ms. Rutgers University. 

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Talks/Presentations (organized by topic)

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Child Language Acquisition:

 

Mapping Word Forms and Structure to Meaning (Adjectives/Gradability/Degree Constructions)

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Gotowski, Megan & Kristen Syrett. "It is daxy to learn adjectives, and learning adjectives is daxy for everyone: Syntactic frames support the acquisition of adjective meaning," talk presented at BUCLD 47, November 5, 2022.

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Syrett, Kristen & Megan Gotowski. "Gradable Adjectives as a Window into Comparative Constructions," talk presented as part of a symposium entitled "Adjective Meanings are Not Easy to Learn" at IASCL, Philadelphia, PA, July 15-23, 2021. *Virtual due to COVID-19*

 

Gotowski, Megan. "Children's Interpretations of Comparatives," invited talk at UNC at Chapel Hill. October 30th, 2020. *Virtual due to COVID-19*

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Gotowski, Megan & Kristen Syrett. "Investigating the Hypothesis Space of Children's Interpretations of Comparatives," talk presented at BUCLD 44, Boston, November 8-9th.

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Gotowski, Megan & Kristen Syrett. "Probing Children's Early Comprehension of Comparative Constructions," poster presentation at MACSIM, NYU, April 6th, 2019. 

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Ellipsis

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Gotowski, Megan. "Invisible Structure: Sluicing in Child Grammar," talk at the 14th Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL), University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1-2, 2017.

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Passives

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Gotowski, Megan. "Get-Passives in Child Grammar," invited talk at New York University. November 12th, 2018.

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Gotowski, Megan. "Get-Passives in Child English: Raising or Control?" poster presentation at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France, July 17-21, 2017.

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Gotowski, Megan. "The Role of Animacy in Children's Early Get-Passives," talk at the 41st Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), Philadelphia, March 24-26, 2017. 

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Gotowski, Megan. “Raising or Control? Children’s Early Get-Passives,” poster presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Austin, TX, January 5-8, 2017. [Updated PDF]

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Gotowski, Megan. “Children’s Comprehension of the Get-Passive,” poster presentation at GALANA 7, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 8-10, 2016. 

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Wh-Movement/Wh-In Situ

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Gotowski, Megan. "Revisiting Why-Questions in Child French," poster presentation at the Canadian Linguistics Association, London, Ontario, May 30-June 1, 2020.

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Gotowski, Megan. "Wh-In Situ Production in Child French", talk at the 19th Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL). Concordia University, Montréal, December 12-13, 2016. [handout (slides)]

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Gotowski, Megan. "La production des questions en français chez les enfants," talk at the 40e Colloque annuel de l'Association de linguistique des provinces atlantiques (ALPA), Mount Saint Vincent U. Halifax, October 28, 2016. [slides] 

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Gotowski, Megan & Misha Becker. “An Information Structural Account of Children’s Wh-In Situ Questions in French,” talk at GALANA 6, U. of Maryland, Feb. 19-21, 2015.

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Becker, Misha & Megan Gotowski. “Explaining Children’s Wh-In Situ Questions: Against Economy,” talk at BUCLD 39, Boston, MA, November 7-9, 2014. 

 

Becker, Misha & Megan Gotowski. “Explaining Children’s Wh-In Situ Questions: Against Economy,” poster presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), MIT, Oct. 31- Nov. 2, 2014.

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Subject Clitics/Clitic Doubling 

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Gotowski, Megan. “Subject Clitics in Child French,” talk at Going Romance 28, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, December 4-6, 2014.

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Gotowski, Megan. "Subject Doubling in Child French," talk at the 38th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), Philadelphia, PA, March 28-30, 2014.

 

Gotowski, Megan. "Subject Doubling in Child French: A Corpus Based Analysis," talk at the University of North Carolina Spring Linguistics Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March 22, 2014.

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Syntax:

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Gotowski, Megan & Viviane Déprez. "Wh-In Situ in French as a Function of Discourse Factors," poster presentation at the CLA, London, Ontario, May 30-June 1, 2020. 

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Gotowski, Megan & Troy Messick. "What Quoi-Sluices Reveal about Ellipsis and Wh-Clitics in French," talk at ConSOLE 28, Barcelona, January 29-31, 2020. [poster]

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Gotowski, Megan. “Sluicing in French,” poster presentation at the 43rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), March 22-24th, 2019.

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Gotowski, Megan. “Psycholinguistic Evidence for Secondary Agents in Get-Passives,” talk at the 3rd Annual Linguistics Conference at the U. of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 7-9, 2016. 

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Gotowski, Megan. “Null Subjects in Child and Adult French,”  talk at the University of North Carolina Spring Linguistics Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March 28, 2015.

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Phonology:

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Gotowski, Megan. "The Rules of the Game: Formalizing Anti-Faithfulness in Verlan," invited talk at UNC Chapel Hill (Friday Colloquium Series), April 12th, 2019. 

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Gotowski, Megan. "La règle du jeu: le Verlan comme un exemple d’anti-fidélité," talk at the 42e Colloque annuel de l'Association de linguistique des provinces atlantiques (ALPA). Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. November 2-3rd, 2018. [slides]

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Teaching and Research Grants

• Teaching Innovation Grant, Pomona College, Project: Using Corpora for Language Acquisition Research (workbook, in development).

• Jacobs Research Funds Grant, Project: Forming comparisons in child language in Yucuquimi de Ocampo Mixtec (co-PI with Iara Mantenuto, CSU-Dominguez Hills)

• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM), UCLA, 2015

• Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM), UCLA 2015

 

Teaching

 

Pomona College

• LGCS145 (Acquisition of Semantics), Spring 2024

• LGCS120 (Language Acquisition), Spring 2024 

• LGCS124 (Corpus Linguistics), Fall 2023

• LGCS010 (Introduction to Linguistics), 2023-2024

 

MIT

• (Undergraduate/Graduate) Language Acquisition, Spring 2023

 

Rutgers University

• LING 201 (Introduction to Linguistic Theory), Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring & Summer 2021, Spring 2022

• LING 101 (Exploring Language), Fall 2021

• Teaching Assistant, LING 201, Fall 2019

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UCLA

• Teaching Assistant, LING 1- Fall 2016

• Instructor, LING 1- Summer Session C 2016

• Teaching Assistant, LING 1 (Online)- Summer Session A 2016

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Introduction to Language- Spring & Summer 2014

• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Language- Fall 2013

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Juniata College

• Teaching Assistant, College Writing Seminar- 2009-2012

• Practicum in Special Education (Huntingdon Area Middle School (PA))- 2010

• Visiting Language Instructor (French) via Juniata College Language in Motion- 2008-2009

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