Hadas Kotek » Publications

(For project descriptions and ongoing work, see the research page.)

Technical report

2024
Apple Authors (including Hadas Kotek). 2024. Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models.

Proceedings papers (NLP, papers reviewed)

2023
Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum, and David Q. Sun. 2023. Gender bias and stereotypes in Large Language Models. ACM Collective Intelligence conference.
2023
David Q. Sun, Artem Abzaliev, Hadas Kotek, Zidi Xiu, Christopher Klein, Jason D. Williams. 2023. DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs’ Performance in Handling Controversial Issues. The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
2023
Xiu, Zidi, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman, Jason D. Williams. 2023. Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out. The 27th meeting of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD).
2021
Patel, Alkesh, Akanksha Bindal, Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, and Jason D. Williams. Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistant. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
2020:
Sun, David Q., Hadas Kotek, Christopher Klein, Mayank Gupta, William Li and Jason D. Williams. Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution. The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

Books

2019
Kotek, Hadas. Composing Questions. Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2017
Halpert, Claire, Hadas Kotek, and Coppe van Urk (eds.). 2017. A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MIT Working Paper in Linguistics 80. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.

Journal articles and book chapters

2021
Cepeda, Paola, Hadas Kotek, Katharina Pabst, and Kristen Syrett. Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice (1997)?. Language 97(4): 678–702.
2021
Kotek, Hadas, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski, and Christopher Geissler. Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences. Language 97(4): 653–677.
2021
Kotek, Hadas, Sarah Babinski, Rikker Dockum, and Christopher Geissler. 2021. Gender stereotypes and inclusion in language teaching. Babylonia 1: 66–70.
2019
Barros, Matthew and Hadas Kotek. Ellipsis licensing and redundancy reduction: A focus-based approach. Glossa 4(1): 100. 1-36.
2019
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Wh-indeterminates in Chuj (Mayan). Canadian Journal of Linguistics 64(1): 62–101.
2018
Kotek, Hadas and Matthew Barros. Multiple sluicing, scope, and superiority: Consequences for ellipsis identity. Linguistic Inquiry 49(4): 781–812.
2018
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Covert focus movement with pied-piping: Evidence from Tanglewood. Linguistic Inquiry 49(3): 441–463.
2017
Kotek, Hadas. Dissociating intervention effects from superiority in English wh-questions. The Linguistic Review 34(2): 397–417.
2017
Kotek, Hadas. Questioning Superiority. A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 80, eds. Halpert, Claire, Hadas Kotek, and Coppe van Urk, 457–466. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2016
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Covert pied-piping in English multiple wh-questions. Linguistic Inquiry 47(4): 669–693.
2016
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Even-NPIs in Dharamsala Tibetan. Linguistic Analysis: Special Issue on South Asian morphosyntax 40(3-4): 129–166.
2016
Hadas Kotek. Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1(1), 25:1-19.
2016
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. A streamlined approach to online linguistic surveys. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34(2): 481-495. (includes an online Appendix). Tools available at: turktools.net.
2016
Hisagi, Miwako, Valerie L. Shafer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara, and Dimitrios Pantazis. Second-language learning effects on automaticity of speech processing of Japanese phonetic contrasts: An MEG study. Brain Research 1652: 111–118.
2015
Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, and Martin Hackl. Experimental investigations of ambiguity: The case of most. Natural Language Semantics 23(2): 119-156.
2014
Kotek, Hadas. Wh-Fronting in a Two-Probe System. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32(4): 1105-1143.
2013
Kotek, Hadas. The syntax-semantics interface in Hebrew. Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, ed. Khan, Geoffrey. Boston: Brill publishing. Volume 3, 683-688.
2011
Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. Most Meanings are Superlative. Syntax and Semantics 37: Experiments at the Interfaces, ed. Jeff Runner, 101-145. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publications.

Proceedings papers (Linguistics, abstracts reviewed)

2022
Frank, Rober, and Hadas Kotek. 2022. Top-down derivations: Flipping syntax on its head. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Volume 7, Number 1 (2022), 5264. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5264.
2020
Kotek, Hadas, Sarah Babinski, Rikker Dockum, and Christopher Geissler. Gender representation in linguistic example sentences. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Volume 5, Number 1 (2020), 514–528. ISSN (online): 2473-8689.
2020
Phillips, Josh and Hadas Kotek. Updates discourse anaphora: a dynamic approach to otherwise. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 49}, eds. Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky. GLSA: Amherst, MA. Volume 3, 29–38.
2018
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Focus association by movement: Evidence from binding and parasitic gaps. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 21.
2018
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Non-interrogative wh-constructions in Chuj (Mayan). Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 21.
2017
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. 2017. Movement and alternatives don’t mix: Evidence from Japanese. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium (AC) 2017.
2017
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese. Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 14.
2017
Kotek, Hadas. Intervention effects arise from scope-taking across alternatives. Proceedings North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 47, eds. Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff. GSLA: Amherst, MA. Volume 2, 153–166.
2017
Kotek, Hadas. Questioning Superiority. A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 80, eds. Halpert, Claire, Hadas Kotek, and Coppe van Urk, 457–466. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
2016
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from Mayan. Proceedings North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 46, eds. Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett, GSLA: Amherst, MA. Volume 2, 241–254.
2016
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Tanglewood untangled. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, eds. Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf, 224–243.
2016
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Intervention effects in relative pronoun pied-piping: experimental evidence. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 20, eds. Nadine Bade, Polina Berezovskaya and Anthea Scholler.
2016
Kotek, Hadas. On the semantics of wh-questions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 20, eds. Nadine Bade, Polina Berezovskaya and Anthea Scholler.
2016
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. The structure and interpretation of non-restrictive relatives: Evidence from relative pronoun pied-piping. Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 51. (slides), Chicago, IL.: Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 149-163.
2014
Hisagi, Miwako, Valerie L. Shafer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara, and Dimitrios Pantazis. Perception of Japanese vowel contrasts by L1 and L2 learners of Japanese: An EEG study. Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL) 7, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #73, pp. 45-55.
2014
Kotek, Hadas. Intervention out of islands. Proceedings North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 44, eds. Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer. GSLA: Amherst, MA. Volume 1, 234–246.
2014
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Intervention in focus pied-piping. Proceedings North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 43, eds. Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole and Amanda Rysling. GLSA: Amherst, MA. Volume 1, 117-130.
2014
Hisagi, Miwako, Valerie L. Shafer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara, and Dimitrios Pantazis. Changes in Automaticity of Speech Processing of Japanese Phonetic Contrasts in Second-Language Learning: An MEG study. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 2014.
2013
Kotek, Hadas and Martin Hackl. An experimental investigation of interrogative syntax/semantics. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium (AC) 2013, eds. Maria Aloni, Michael Franke and Floris Roelofsen.
2013
Kotek, Hadas. Intervention, covert movement, and focus computation in multiple wh-questions. LSA Annual Meeting extended abstracts.
2013
Sugawara, Ayaka, Hadas Kotek, Martin Hackl and Ken Wexler. Long vs. Short QR: Evidence from the Acquisition of ACD. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 37. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2013
Kotek, Hadas. Degree Relatives, Definiteness and shifted Reference. Proceedings North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 40, eds. Seda Kan, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Robert Staubs. GLSA: Amherst, MA. Volume 2, 29-43.
2012
Kotek, Hadas. Readings of Hebrew multiple questions. Proceedings West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 30, eds. Nathan Arnett and Ryan Bennett, 216-225. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2011
Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl. Three Readings of Most. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21, eds. Ashton, Neil, Anca Chereches and David Lutz, 353-372.
2008
Kotek, Hadas. Resolving complement anaphora. NEALT proceedings series: Proceedings of the second Workshop on Anaphora Resolution, ed. Johansson, Christer, 41-53.

Dissertation

2014
Kotek, Hadas. Composing Questions. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Manuscripts (pre-prints available upon request)

manuscript
Kastner, Itamar, Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum, Michael Dow, Maria Esipova, Caitlin Green, Todd Snider. Who speaks for us? Lessons from the Pinker letter.
manuscript (pending revision)
Phillips, Joshua and Hadas Kotek. Discourse anaphoric otherwise: Information structure & modal subordination
manuscript (pending revision)
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Indefinite free relatives in Mayan: Lessons for the typology of free relatives and the nature of relative clause islands.
manuscript (pending revision)
Erlewine, Michael Y. and Hadas Kotek. Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese.
manuscript (pending revision)
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Relative pronoun pied-piping in English non-restrictive relatives.
manuscript (pending revision)
Kotek, Hadas and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Blocking effects in English causatives.

Handouts and slides

2014
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek. Morphological blocking in English causatives (slides). Presentation at the LSA 88, Minneapolis, January 2014.
2012
Kotek, Hadas, Yasutada Sudo, and Martin Hackl. Many readings of Most (handout). Presentation at CLS 48.