Daniil M. Ozernyi
Conference Travel Grant
Please provide the tile and a brief summary of your research/conference presentation.
See the titles of several presentations below; my research has to do with language assessment, second language acquisition, and generative syntax.
What made you initially interested in researching your project in particular?
I have always been interested in language sciences, and so I try to maintain an interdisciplinary research agenda that explores many aspects of language, like language assessment, psycholinguistics, syntax, &c.
What conference(s) did you present at and how did you find out about them?
I was able to present the following papers or posters owing to the OUR conference travel grant:
Formalizing derivation and parsing components of minimalist syntax within first-order logic
[Paper] 第十届形式语言学国际研讨会 (ICFL-10), 清華大學, 北京.
Some remarks on sensitive periods and the methodological rigor of their examination
[Poster] International Joint Conference of APLX, ETRA40, and TESPA 2023.
On reliability of assessment and the use of rubrics to assess writing in a linguistic classroom
[Paper] 2023 Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics (CoSTaSiL 23). July 2023, UMass-Amherst.
Multidominance in light of conflicting formalizations of minimalism and syntactic economy
[Paper] Workshop “How Many Mothers? Multidominance in Syntax”. UMass Amherst, June 24-25 2023.
DM Ozernyi, Haeun Kim, Taichi Yamashita, Suzanne Flynn. Validity and reliability of assessment used in second language acquisition studies
[Colloquium organizer] AAAL 2023. March 18.
Also, presentations for Midwest Slavic Conference, Okinawa chapter of Japanese TESOL, a few others; in the interest of space, I did not put their names here particularly because the work presented there was based on the presentations below.
Check the rest of Daniil’s conferences on his website!
What was it like presenting at a conference? Anything that you didn’t expect?
It is a great venue to present your work and connect with other researchers and get to know professors who will be reading your grad school application!
Any tips or advice you have for students similar to you that are interested in presenting at a conference one day?
I suggest that interested students submit their research. It can perhaps be difficult to submit for the first time, because of anxiety or impostor syndrome, but conference abstract submission usually provides an anonymous submission venue with relatively quick feedback and helpful comment from reviewers for the most fields. Indeed, it’s difficult to submit proposals that are theoretical; undergraduate students often do not have access to resources needed to run an experiment if they are not under a PI. Still, I strongly encourage students to submit!
Do you have a podcast/documentary/piece of shareable media related to your research? Post the link(s) to share here!
https://dozernyi.com, my ResearchGate profile https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniil-Ozernyi
What would you name a boat if you had one?
Styx
What is something that you could give a 10 min presentation on right off the cuff?
Pretty much anything to be honest, ranging from thin-layer chromatography to language and Ai to language teaching or any aspect of scientific study of language.
If your (speaking) voice were an instrument, what do you think it would be?
Oboe maybe? A violin? Idk.
What was a memorable interaction that you had on campus this week?
I had lunch with Sean Ebels-Duggan and we talked about Wittgenstein.