CASSANDRA CHAPMAN CONTACT INFORMATION PhD Candidate Department of Linguistics and Languages 1280 Main St W Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 CANADA Phone: (905) 536-8707 E-mail: chapmc3@mcmaster.ca Website: www.cassandrachapman.com RESEARCH INTERESTS effects of logical form structure on real-time processing syntactic reconstruction effects in real-time comprehension syntactic dependencies and licensing restrictions syntactic processing and its interactions with working memory semantic effects on syntactic processing definiteness and its interaction with interpretation evidentiality and contextual effects syntax-semantics interface EDUCATION, Hamilton, ON Ph.D., Cognitive Science of Language, In progress (August 2016, expected) Thesis Topic: Investigating effects of logical form in real-time sentence processing: Evidence from reconstruction Supervisor: Dr. Ivona Kučerová Committee members: Dr. Susana Béjar (University of Toronto), Dr. Martin Hackl (MIT) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON M.A., Linguistics, August 2012 Major Research Paper Topic: Evidence of clitic doubling in Laurentian French: Consequences for grammaticalization Supervisors: Dr. Éric Mathieu, Dr. Laura Sabourin Second Reader: Dr. Robert Truswell B.A., Honours Double Major in Linguistics and Spanish, June 2011 Summa cum laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Course Instructor September 2015 to December 2015 Department of Linguistics and Languages, Course Instructor for LING 2SY3 (Fall 2015) Duties: Preparing and teaching biweekly lectures, preparing problem sets, midterm tests and the final exam, maintaining the online course site with lecture notes and other information about the course, supervising the teaching assistant by providing rubrics and answer keys for problem sets and exams and ensuring consistency in how students are graded, responding to student questions via email and on the online discussion board 1 of 7
Teaching Assistant September 2012 to present Department of Linguistics and Languages, Supervisors: Dr. Catherine Anderson, Dr. Maria Kyriakaki Teaching Assistant for LING 1A03 (Fall 2012), 2SY3 (Winter 2013, Fall 2013) and 1AA3 (Winter 2014/Spring and Summer 2015), 2PS3 (Fall 2014) Duties: Attending lectures, marking weekly assignments and teaching weekly tutorials (LING 1A03/1AA3), marking course assignments/exams (LING 2SY3/2PS3), responding to student questions via email or on online discussion board, providing feedback to the online component of the course (LING 1AA3 - Summer), creating and improving questions for the online quiz component of the course (LING 1AA3 - Summer) Research Assistant January 2014 to April 2014 Department of Linguistics and Languages, Supervisor: Dr. Ivona Kučerová Research Assistant for an experimental project on modular cognition. Duties: Preparing and developing experimental stimuli, running online acceptability judgement experiment, compiling results from judgement experiment Research Assistant May 2012 to August 2014 Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Supervisor: Dr. Éric Mathieu Research Assistant for an experimental project on French wh-in-situ Duties: Preparing and developing experimental stimuli, applying for ethics, developing experimental protocol Teaching Assistant October 2011 to April 2012 Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Supervisor: Dr. Robert Truswell Teaching Assistant for LIN 1310 (Fall 2011, Winter 2012) Duties: Teaching weekly tutorials, marking assignments/exams, invigilating exams, meeting with students, attending lecture NON-ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS English and French tutor October 2013 to December 2014 Achieve Learning Centre, Dundas, ON Duties: Preparing lessons for elementary and high school students, preparing reports for parents to track student progress and areas of ongoing need, support students with homework and supplementary exercises to reinforce what is being taught in the classroom Quality Assurance Editor June 2010 to March 2012 Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa, ON Duties: Editing training manuals, translating manuals English-French, French- English, formatting manuals according to the Agency s style guide and branding English Editor January 2010 to April 2010 Industry Canada, Ottawa, ON Duties: Editing English documents to be released for communication, formatting as required according to Industry Canada s branding and style 2 of 7
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS [1] Chapman, Cassandra. 2014. Investigating clitic doubling in Laurentian French: An experimental approach. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics/La revue canadienne de linguistique, 59(2), 243-262. [2] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. A revised account of the EPP in French: A semantics-based analysis. In Proceedings from the First Montreal-Ottawa- Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Workshop in Syntax, eds. A. McKillen & B. Buccola, Volume 23(1), 23 pages. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS [3] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. A revised analysis of EPP feature-checking: The case of Modern French. In Proceedings of the 2013 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. S. Luo, 15 pages. [4] Chapman, Cassandra. 2012. Clitic doubling in Laurentian French: An auditory acceptability judgment task. In Proceedings of the 2012 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. P. Caxaj, 15 pages. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS [5] Chapman, Cassandra, Diane Doran and Daniel Schmidtke. 2015. Testing the constraints on evidentiality in English: A forced-choice acceptability judgement task. Experimental Approaches to Semantics. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, August 3-7. [6] Chapman, Cassandra, Diane Doran, and Daniel Schmidtke. 2015. The locus of evidentiality in English. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association University of Ottawa, May 30-June 1. [7] Service, Elisabet, Cassandra Chapman and Tiffany Deschamps. 2014. Does syntactic processing require the same resources as working memory? Seventh European Working Memory Symposium. Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3. [8] Service, Elisabet, Cassandra Chapman and Tiffany Deschamps. 2014. Working memory load varies during sentence processing. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Annual Meeting. Ryerson University, July 5 [9] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. Memory word location and the sentence span task: Evidence for a shared resource system. Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics 16. University of Waterloo, December 6. [10] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. A revised analysis of EPP feature-checking. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. University of Victoria, June 1-3. [11] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. Processing of parasitic gaps in real-time: Evidence from eye-tracking. Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research. Western University, March 15-16. [12] Chapman, Cassandra. 2012. Clitic Doubling in Laurentian French: An auditory acceptability judgment taks. The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Wilfrid Laurier University, May 26-28. 3 of 7
[13] Chapman, Cassandra. 2012. Preliminary results of an auditory acceptability judgment task. Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research. Western University, March 16-17. CONFERENCE POSTERS [14] Chapman, Cassandra and Elisabet Service. 2015. Interaction between syntactic processing and word recall: Evidence from complex span. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Languages Processing, University of Malta, September 3-5. [15] Chapman, Cassandra, Diane Doran, and Daniel Schmidtke. 2015. On the elements of discourse encoded in English evidential constructions. Poster presented at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives, University of Alberta, June 17-19. [16] Chapman, Cassandra. 2014. Syntax-semantic differences between the and the one constructions. Poster presented at the second annual Montreal-Ottawa- Toronto-Hamilton syntax workshop. McGill University, March 22-23. [17] Chapman, Cassandra, Victor Kuperman, and Ivona Kučerová. 2014. Online processing of parasitic gaps: Evidence from eye-tracking. Poster presented at the 27th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ohio State University, March 13-15. [18] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. Do we really need the EPP? The case of Modern French. Poster presented at the The first annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto- Hamilton (MOTH) workshop in syntax., March 2. OTHER PRESENTATIONS [19] Chapman, Cassandra and Martin Hackl. 2015. Looking for reconstruction effects in real-time language comprehension. Talk presented at Experimental Syntax and Semantics Laboratory Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 26. [20] Chapman, Cassandra, Diane Doran and Daniel Schmidtke. 2015. On the encoding of evidentiality in English: An experimental approach. Talk presented at Logical Form Reading Group Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 23. [21] Chapman, Cassandra. 2015. Using reconstruction as a tool to capture the real-time processing of de re and de dicto interpretations: An experimental proposal. Talk presented at Experimental Syntax and Semantics Laboratory Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 14. [22] Chapman, Cassandra, Devora Goldberg and Elisabet Service. 2015. Dissociation between interference effects in complex span: Evidence for a categorical difference between words and digits. Talk presented at Student Research Day, McMaster University, April 9. [23] Chapman, Cassandra, Devora Goldberg, Monika Karlovic and Elisabet Service. 2015. The effect of syntactic complexity on complex span: Evidence from subject and object relative clauses. Talk presented at Student Research Day,, April 9. 4 of 7
[24] Chapman, Cassandra. 2015. Restricting the antecedent domain using focus: New evidence from English DPs. Talk presented at LingLunch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2. [25] Chapman, Cassandra. 2014. Target item location and the complex span task: Evidence for a shared resource system. Poster presented at Student Research Day,, April 9. [26] Chapman, Cassandra, Allie Geddes, Michelle McDonald and Morganna Tracey- Stone. 2013. Syntactic processing and its interaction with working memory. Poster presented at Student Research Day,, April 11. [27] Chapman, Cassandra. 2013. Real-time processing of parasitic gaps: Evidence from eye-tracking. Talk presented at Student Research Day., April 11. PAPERS IN PREPARATION [28] Chapman, Cassandra, Elisabet Service, Victor Kuperman and Tiffany Deschamps. Does Working Memory Play a Role in Sentence Processing? Evidence from complex span. [29] Chapman, Cassandra and Martin Hackl. Effects of anaphoric processing in realtime sentence comprehension. [30] Chapman, Cassandra, Diane Doran and Daniel Schmidtke. Testing the constraints on evidentiality in English. [31] Chapman, Cassandra. Restricting the antecedent domain using focus: New evidence from English DPs. EDITOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES [32] Chapman, Cassandra, Olena Kit and Ivona Kučerová. 2014. Proceedings of the 22nd annual Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, held at McMaster University, May 3-5, 2013. Conference Organizer Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 22 (FASL),, May 3-5, 2013. Ottawa s Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates (OCLU), University of Ottawa, December 3-4, 2010. Workshop Organizer LATEX workshop for graduate students, September 2014 Committee Member Student Representative for the Cognitive Science of Language Graduate Program, Department of Linguistics and Languages,, 2013-2015 Graduate Student Representative on the Graduate Council, Faculty of Humanities,, September 2014-January 2015 Member of the Syntax Lab, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University, 2012-present Graduate Student Representative representative on the Humanities Dean Selection Committee, Faculty of Humanities,, January 2014-April 2014 5 of 7
PhD representative the Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee, Faculty of Humanities,, September 2013-April 2014 Master s Student Representative on the Committee on Graduate Studies (CoGS), Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 2011-2012 Member of the Brain and Language Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 2011-2012 FUNDING External funding Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship, Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, February-May 2015, $5,800 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship, May 2014-April 2017, $105,000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2011-2012, $15,000 Internal funding Yates Travel Fund, 2015, $500 Cognitive Science of Language Travel Award, 2015, $1,000 Elder Family Graduate Award,, 2014, $2500 Cognitive Science of Language Travel Award, 2014, $1,000 Graduate Scholarship, 2013-2014, $8,000 Ashbaugh Graduate Scholarship, 2012-2013, $11,000 Cognitive Science of Language Travel Award, 2013, $1,000 Canadian Linguistics Association Travel Award, 2013, $500 University of Ottawa Dean s Scholarship, 2012, $500 CUPE Conference Grant, 2012, $250 Western University Travel Funding, 2012, $180 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, 2011-2012, $7,500 Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship, 2007-2011, $14,000 University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship, 2007-2008, 2009-2011, $9,000 Academic Awards Faculty of Arts Plaque, Highest Standing in the Department of Modern Languages, 2011 ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS Student Member of: Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 2013-present Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), 2012-present PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Courses and Training European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, August 3-14, 2015 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Michigan, June 24- July 19, 2013 Community Lunch Coordinator,, 2012-2013 Graduate Orientation Day Workshops,, 2012-2014 Evaluating Student Work Workshop, Centre for University Teaching, University of Ottawa, 2012 6 of 7
Facilitating Group Discussions Workshop, Centre for University Teaching, University of Ottawa, 2012 University of Ottawa Writing Centre Workshop: Writing a Literature Review, 2011 VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE In-school mentor with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Hamilton-Burlington, 2013- present Student volunteer with Best Buddies Association, University of Ottawa, 2007-2011 TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE Experimental programs Internet-Based EXperiments (IBEX) (advanced) Lime Survey (intermediate) Experiment Builder/Data Viewer (advanced) SuperLab (advanced) PsyScope (intermediate) Praat (limited working proficiency) Statistical programs R (advanced) SPSS (intermediate) LANGUAGES KNOWN English (native language) French (near-native) Spanish (functional) REFERENCES AVAILABLE TO CONTACT Dr. Ivona Kučerová (e-mail: kucerov@mcmaster.ca) Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Dr. Kučerová is my PhD supervisor. Dr. Victor Kuperman (e-mail: vickup@mcmaster.ca) Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Dr. Kuperman supervised one of my comprehensive papers. Dr. Elisabet Service (e-mail: eservic@mcmaster.ca) Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Dr. Service supervised one of my comprehensive papers. Dr. Éric Mathieu (e-mail: emathieu@uottawa.ca) Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Dr. Mathieu was my M.A. supervisor. Last updated September 13, 2015. 7 of 7