On 11/14, 2nd year Ph.D. student Anissa Neal gave a talk at the Institute of the Diversity Sciences Research group entitled “Down the Garden Path: Processing in African American English,” in which she talked about contact subject relatives in African American English, and talked about speakers of AAE seem to be able to exploit this unique feature of their grammar to minimize processing difficulty in garden path sentences. In her presentation, she represented linguistics to a broader audience on our campus, and rumor has it that she managed to convince some folks in the audience that linguistics is, indeed, pretty cool. Way to go, Anissa!