Mónica López–González (aka Mónika Lykos-González)
4th
year Graduate Student
Primary
Advisor: Dr.
Géraldine Legendre
Department of Cognitive Science
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
e-mail: lopezgonzalez[AT]cogsci.jhu.edu
Office:
Krieger Hall Room 239
Office
telephone: 410.516.7625
Office
hours: tba
“Neither can embellishments of language be found
without arrangement and expression of thoughts,
nor can thought be made to shine without the light
of language.”
Cicero, De Oratore, III, 6
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E
d u c a t i o n
2007 –
present, Ph.D. in Cognitive Science,
M.A. 2007,
Cognitive Science,
First Qualifying
Paper: Optimizing the selection of
Spanish’s ser and estar
Advisor: Dr.
Géraldine Legendre
Second reader: Dr. Luigi Burzio
B.A. 2005,
Psychology,
Thesis Title: Different perceptual stimuli of the same
event increase false memories
B.A. 2005, French
Language & Literature,
Thesis Title: Souvenirs du présent perpétuel: les thèmes de la
mémoire et du temps dans les films d’Alain Resnais
(Remembrances
from the perpetual present: memory and time in the films of Alain Resnais)
A
w a r d s & H o n o r s
- May 2005,
graduated with general university and departmental honors, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD
- May 2005, Louis Sudler
Prize in the Arts
(Piano performance: CD recording of E.
Lecuona’s Suite Espagnole and
I. Albéniz’s El
Albaicín from Suite Iberia)
- Summer, 2003
Howard Hughes Research Fellowship
- Summer, 2002
Provost Undergraduate Research Award
R
e s e a r c h I n t e r e s t s
- Optimality
theoretical syntax
- Philosophy of
language
- Semantics and
pragmatics
- Language
acquisition
C
u r r e n t P r o j e c t s
- Spanish copulae ser and estar in adult grammar: I am currently working on explaining the
distinction between ser and estar via an optimality theoretical
approach. More specifically, I am interested in the interactive effects of
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics responsible for selecting one copula over the
other.
- Acquisition of
Spanish copulae ser and estar: I am currently working with
spontaneous production data of monolingual native Spanish-speaking children.
- Acquisition of
agreement and tense in French: I am part of the Language Acquisition Lab were I am
currently working on Dr. Géraldine Legendre’s NSF-funded project
aimed at testing children’s comprehension of subject-verb agreement in
French using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm (IPLP).
T
e a c h i n g A s s i s t a n t s h
i p s
050.326/626 Foundations in Cognitive Science A, Spring 2008
(Smolensky)
050.620 Syntax I, Fall 2007 (Legendre)
050.240 World of Language, Spring 2007
(Legendre)
050.102 Language and Mind, Fall 2006
(Badecker)
050.240 World of Language, Spring 2006
(Legendre)
C o u r s e w o r k
050.325 Phonology I (Smolensky)
050.620 Syntax I (Legendre)
050.621 Syntax II: Optimality Theory
(Legendre)
050.621 Syntax II: TAG, LFG, HPSG, and
Categorical Grammar (Frank)
050.626 Foundations in Cognitive Science A
(Smolensky)
050.633 Psycholinguistics (Badecker)
050.639 Cognitive Development (Landau)
050.670 Formal Methods in Cognitive
Science: Language (Frank)
050.672 Formal Methods in Cognitive
Science: Neural Networks (Smolensky)
050.818 Research Seminar in Language
Development (Legendre)
050.822 Research Seminar in Syntax:
Minimalism (Frank, Legendre)
050.827 Research Seminar: Language
Acquisition (Legendre)
050.839 Independent Study: Semantics
(Frank)
150.658 Topics in the Philosophy of
Language: Linguistics (Gross)
150.658 Topics in the Philosophy of
Language: Semantics & Pragmatics (Gross)
200.314 Advanced Statistical Methods
(Yantis)
200.315 Advanced Research in Design and
Analysis (
C o n f e r e n c e s A t t e n d e d
ë XI International
Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (
ë 14th
Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring (
ë HOWL-4:
ë CUNY’s
Research Forum 2007: Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban
Society (
ë
ë 31st
ë Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium (
ë 1st
Annual Rutgers Linguistics Conference (
P
r e s e n t a t i o n s
ë López-González,
M., Legendre, G., & Halberda, J. Acquisition
of Spanish’s ser and estar: Experimental evidence for insensitivity to copular semantics.
Poster presented at the XI
International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child
Language,
ë Legendre, G.,
Nazzi, T., Barrière,
ë López-González,
M. Ser or estar, or both?: on the productive uses of the Spanish copulae by
young children. Paper presented at the Hispanic
Linguistics Symposium,
ë Legendre, G.,
ë López-González, M., Y. Okado, & C. Stark. False memories:
the influence of misinformation on memory recall. Poster presented at the
P
u b l i c a t i o n s
ë López-González, M. & Legendre, G. (2006). Acquiring the
Spanish copulae ser and estar: evidence for sensitivity to
semantic cues from spontaneous production. (submitted MS)
ë Legendre, G.,
Nazzi, T., Barrière,
L
a n g u a g e s
ë English &
Español (native)
ë Français
(fluent)
ë Italiano,
Português Brasileiro, & Català (working knowledge)
ë Latin (reading,
writing)
E x t r a C u r r i c u l a r
-
2007 – present: Certificate of Art in Photography, Maryland
Institute College of Art,
P
h o t o E x h i b i t s
-
November, 2008 – January, 2009: TBA, invited
solo exhibit of color film & digital photographic prints, First Floor
Gallery, An die Musik,
- September 10, 2008 – September
16, 2008: invited to present Bio sketches,
6 color film photographic prints in the Continuing
Studies Student Exhibit Fall 2008, Thesis
Gallery, Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art,
-
June 7, 2008 – July 13, 2008: invited to present black & white
photograph, Harmonic Remembrances:
Andante, at Mills Pond House
Gallery’s The Art of Music Exhibition,
-
January 27, 2008 – April 24, 2008: Irresistible
Solitude, invited solo exhibit of 24 black and white photographic
prints, First Floor Gallery, An die
Musik, Baltimore, Maryland
- September 12,
2007 – 19, 2007: invited to present Vida
de naranja (Life of an orange), 5 black and white photographic prints in
the Continuing Studies Student
Exhibition Fall 2007, Thesis Gallery, Fox Building, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
“Grammar, in its extended and consistent forms, is
the work of thought, which makes its categories
distinctly visible therein.”
Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction, 3
Last
updated: August 2008