jon sprouse - cv
university of california, irvine

click here to download a pdf version of my cv [updated 7/15/2008]

Education

• University of Maryland, Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2007.
  • Dissertation: A program for experimental syntax || abstract and download
• Princeton University, A.B. in Linguistics, summa cum laude, 2003.

Academic Positions

• University of California, Irvine. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences. 2007-present.
• Princeton University. Lecturer in the Council of Humanities and Linguistics, 2007.

Journal Articles

• Sprouse, Jon. (MS) Evaluating Linguistic Magnitude Estimation. [7/15/08]
• Sprouse, Jon. (submitted) Experimental evidence for movement of wh-in-situ in English.
• Sprouse, Jon. (to appear) Revisiting Satiation. Linguistic Inquiry.
• Sprouse, Jon. (to appear) The differential sensitivity of acceptability to processing effects. Linguistic Inquiry.
• Sprouse, Jon. 2007. Continuous Acceptability, Categorical Grammaticality, and Experimental Syntax. Biolinguistics 1: 118-129.
• Sprouse, Jon. 2007. Rhetorical Questions and WH-Movement. Linguistic Inquiry 38:3.
• Sprouse, Jon. 2005. After all, What doesn't because select?, Snippets 10.

Conference Proceedings

• Caponigro, Ivano and Jon Sprouse. 2007. Rhetorical questions as questions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona.
• Sprouse, Jon. 2007. ACD and Movement Reconsidered: A and A' Copies, Proceedings of NELS 36. UMASS, Amherst.
• Sprouse, Jon. 2006. The Accent Projection Principle: Why the hell not?, Proceedings of the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, edited by Aviad Eilam, Tatjana Scheffler, and Joshua Tauberer. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.1: 349-359.

Conference Presentations

• Sprouse, Jon. Magnitude estimation and the (non-)linearity of acceptability judgments. Talk presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27). University of California, Los Angeles. May 16-18, 2008.
• Sprouse, Jon. Covert Movement, Resumption, and Island Classes. Talk presented at the Western Confe rence on Linguistics 2007. University of California, San Diego. November 30.
• Sprouse, Jon. Syntactic Satiation: Toward an etiology of linguist's disease. Talk presented at the 30th Annual Colloquium of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 30). University of Tromso, Norway, April 12-14, 2007.
• Sprouse, Jon. The effect of temporary representations on acceptability. Talk e presented at the 30th Annual Colloquium of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 30). University of Tromso, Norway, April 12-14, 2007.
• Sprouse, Jon. Experimental Syntax: What does it get you? Talk presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA, March 29-31, 2007.
• Omaki, Akira, Chris Dyer, Shiti Molhatra, Jon Sprouse, Colin Phillips, and Jeff Lidz. The time-course of anaphoric processing and syntactic reconstruction. Talk presented at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA, March 29-31, 2007.
• Almeida, Diogo, Joseph Hill, Jon Sprouse, Deborah Chen Pichler and David Poeppel. MEG evidence of lexical access in signers. Poster presentation at the 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA, March 29-31, 2007.
• Almeida, Diogo, Joseph Hill, Jon Sprouse, Deborah Chen Pichler and David Poeppel. Lexical access in signers: MEG evidence. Poster presentation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. New York, May 5-8, 2007.
• Caponigro, Ivano and Jon Sprouse. Rhetorical questions as questions. Sinn unde Bedeutung 11. Barcelona, September 21-23, 2006.
• Caponigro, Ivano and Jon Sprouse. The questionable nature of rhetorical questions. The 2006 Milan Meeting, Gargnano, Italy, June 15-17.
• Sprouse, Jon. ACD and Movement Reconsidered, NELS 36, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 2005.
• Sprouse, Jon. The Accent Projection Principle: Why the hell not, Penn Linguistics Colloquium 29, University of Pennsylvania, February 2005.

Invited Talks

• Sprouse, Jon. Moving beyond experiments. University of Tuebingen, Germany, May 6, 2008.
• Sprouse, Jon. Acceptability, Grammaticality, and the role of Experimental Syntax. University of California, Santa Cruz. November 2.
• Sprouse, Jon. Acceptability, Grammaticality, and the role of Experimental Syntax. University of So uthern California. October 29.
• Sprouse, Jon. What do you we do now?. Guest Lecture. Harvard University, May 3. [slides]
• Sprouse, Jon. A program for experimental syntax. Harvard University, May 1. [slides]
• Sprouse, Jon. A program for Experimental Syntax. University of California, Irvine, March 22, 2007.
• Sprouse, Jon. A program for Experimental Syntax. Princeton University, March 13, 2007.
• Sprouse, Jon. Experimental Syntax: What does it get you? Invited presentation. University of California, San Diego, November 30, 2006.