Past meetings
2024
March 12: Open house talk: Lalitha Balachandran on context effects
February 8: Emily Knick on Creemers et al. (2023)
January 18: Winter 2024 planning
2023
December 1: Stephanie Rich & Lalitha Balachandran on pedagogy in psycholinguistics
October 27: Elevator pitch for research
October 20: Niko Webster on the processing of Korean nominals
October 6: Fall 2023 scheduling
June 1: Jess Law & Haoze Li presented recent work on focus processing
May 25: Sanghee Kim (University of Chicago) and Lalitha Balachandran & Jack Duff on appositive RC processing
May 18: Grusha Prasad (Colgate University) presents work on serial parsing in ACT-R
May 11: Mandy Cartner presents WIP on reflexive processing
May 4: Duygu Demiray on Xiang et al. (2015)
April 27: Jack Duff on surprisal extraction
April 20: Stephanie Rich on the interaction of dyslexia and language processing
April 13: AMLaP abstract workshop
April 6: Spring 2023 planning
March 16: HSP reflections
March 9: No meeting, s/lab at the 36th Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 2: Duygu Demiray and Elifnur Ulusoy led a discussion of Pearl & Sprouse (2013)
February 23: Lab check-in
February 2: Stephanie Rich led a discussion on the psychology of tactile reading
January 26: CAMP practice talks
January 19: Winter 2023 planning
2022
October 27: Stephanie Rich and Lalitha Balachandran present work in progress on context-dependent memory
October 20: Jack Duff presents Paape & Vasishth (2021)
October 13: Duygu Demiray and Eli Sharf present von Der Malsburg & Angele (2017)
October 6: Elifnur Ulusoy and Vishal Arvindam present Dotlačil (2021)
September 29: Fall 2022 planning meeting
March 7: Vishal Arvindam and Lalitha Balachandran present Breen et al. (2019)
February 28: Lalitha Balachandran led a discussion on prosodic chunking
February 14: Richard Bibbs led a discussion on preposition doubling errors
February 7: Vishal Arvindam presents Orita et al. (2021)
January 31: Jack Duff led a discussion on online narrative interpretation
January 27: Morwenna Hoeks led a discussion on focus processing
2021
November 23: HSP abstract workshop
November 16: Nick Van Handel on ongoing dissertation work on implicit prosody
November 9: Lalitha Balachandran presented ongoing work on prosodic isolation and memory
November 2: Allison Nguyen presented ongoing work on Emojis & Backchannels & Grounding (with Andrew Guydish and Jean E. Fox tree)
October 26: Elifnur Ulusoy and Duygu Demiray presented a talk titled "Estimating the Effect of Uninformed Responses: Application of an MPT Model"
October 19: Jack Duff led a discussion on visual narrative comprehension
October 12: r/lab presented ongoing work on contextual animacy in RC processing
October 5: Matt Wagers led a discussion of Lowder & Gordon (2021)
September 28: Fall 2021 planning
May 24: Fred Zenker presented a talk titled "Resumptive relative clause dependencies in the processing of second language English"
May 17: CAMP practice talks
May 10: Lalitha Balachandran led a discussion of Xiang, Grove, & Merchant (2019)
April 26: Yaqing Cao led a discussion of Alexopoulou & Keller (2007)
April 19: Jack Duff led a discussion of Wolff (2003)
April 5: Steven Foley led a discussion of Dingemanse et al. (2016)
March 9: Rebecca Tollan presented a talk titled "Unifying anti-subject effects"
March 2: CUNY practice talks.
February 23: Lalitha Balachandran and Vishal Arvindam led a discussion of Chen and Husband (2018).
February 16: Vishal Arvindam presented ongoing work on the processing of reflexives in Telugu
February 2: Yaqing Cao led a discussion of Villata et al. (2016)
January 26: Informal coffee hour
January 19: Jack Duff presented ongoing work on the processing of homonymy and polysemy in the Maze
2020
December 8: CUNY workshop.
December 1: Yaqing Cao presented work on the source of focus intervention effects.
November 17: Nick Van Handel presented work on implicit prosody.
November 10: Vishal Arvindam presented preliminary work on the processing of reflexives in Telugu.
November 3: Members tested their mastery of experimental design and analysis with a round of "Iron Psycholinguist" prepared by Amanda Rysling.
October 27: Stephanie Rich presented preliminary work on the processing of filler-gap dependencies in coordinate structures.
October 20: Lalitha Balachandran and Vishal Arvindam led discussion of Xiang et al. (2020).
October 13: Jack Duff led discussion of Karimi et al. (2019).
June 2: Stephanie Rich & Jack Duff led discussion of Dillon, Andrews, Rotello, & Wagers (2019).
May 26: Steven Foley led discussion of Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Schlesewsky (2009).
May 19: Vishal Arvindam led discussion of the approach to visual world analysis in Mirman et al. (2010).
May 12: Informal coffee hour.
May 5: Jed Pizarro-Guevara presented joint work with Matt Wagers on the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Tagalog.
April 28: Stephanie Rich led discussion of several papers on transformation in the analysis of reading time data.
April 21: Jack Duff led a tutorial on running the Maze task online, drawing materials from Boyce et al. (2020).
March 12: Members presented practice talks for the CUNY conference.
February 27: Kelsey Sasaki presented joint work with z/lab titled "Relative clause processing and animacy in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec."
February 20: Richard Bibbs presented recent work on the acceptability of preposition doubling.
February 6: Jack Duff presented recent work on the processing of quotation.
January 30: Vishal Arvindam presented recent work on the acquisition of modality.
January 23: Anelia Kudin presented ongoing work on the status of implicit agents in Ukrainian passives.
January 16: Steven Foley presented recent work titled "Prominence scales guide incremental sentence processing in Georgian."
2019
December 3: CUNY abstract workshop.
November 26: Lalitha Balachandran led discussion of Kush, D., Lohndal, T., & Sprouse, J. (2018). Investigating variation in island effects. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 36(3), 743-779.
November 19: Nick Van Handel presented ongoing QE work on the role of prosody in "syntactic" adaptation.
November 12: Kelsey Sasaki presented joint work with Amanda Rysling and Pranav Anand entitled "Wow, is that acceptable!! Acceptability judgment studies on English exclamatives."
November 5: Richard Bibbs presented ongoing work on the production and acceptability of preposition doubling.
October 29: Jack Duff presented joint work with Amanda Rysling on the processing of direct discourse.
October 22: Lyn Frazier presented on topic situations and domain restrictions, and s/lab members practiced their CAMP talks.
October 15: Jed Pizarro-Guevara presented ongoing work on the processing of relative clauses in Tagalog.
October 8: Stephanie Rich presented ongoing research with Matt Wagers on semantic encoding interference.
June 3: Jack Duff presented joint work with Pranav Anand entitled "Implicit experiencers in the visual world."
May 29: Stephanie Rich gave a practice talk on joint work with Jesse Harris entitled "The limits of forward thinking: Structural prediction with correlative and quantificational both."
May 13: Shayne Sloggett presented on the Maze task.
May 6: Steven Foley led discussion of Kush, D., Dillon, B., Eik, R., & Staub, A. (2019). Processing of Norwegian complex verbs: Evidence for early decomposition. Memory & cognition, 1-16.
April 29: A discussion of phonological typicality effects in reading (Staub, Grant, Clifton, & Rayner, 2009, 2011; Farmer, Monaghan, Misyak, & Christiansen, 2011). Led by Kelsey Sasaki.
April 22: A discussion of Patterson, C., & Felser, C. (2018). Delayed Application of Binding Condition C During Cataphoric Pronoun Resolution. Journal of psycholinguistic research, 1-23. Led by Anelia Kudin.
April 15: Kazanina, N., Lau, E. F., Lieberman, M., Yoshida, M., & Phillips, C. (2007). The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, 56(3), 384-409. Discussion led by Jack Duff.
April 8: Jake Vincent presented a tutorial on Hummingbird.
March 15: Langsford, S., Perfors, A., Hendrickson, A. T., Kennedy, L. A., & Navarro, D. J. (2018). Quantifying sentence acceptability measures: Reliability, bias, and variability. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1).
March 8: Kelsey presented joint work with z/lab on relative clause processing in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec
March 1: Jed, Miguel, and Sikander presented ongoing work on retrieval in English locative inversion
February 22: Nick Van Handel presented joint work with Amanda Rysling, Charles Clifton, Ria Geguera, Hanna Choi, and Anne Cutler entitled "Listeners' predictions of sentence lengths are categorical, not gradient"
February 15: Stephanie Rich presented ongoing work on cue-based retrieval
February 1: Steven Foley led discussion of Yang (2016), Ch. 3
January 25: Jake Vincent presented on "Acceptable extraction from English relative clauses"
January 18: Jed Pizarro-Guevara and Anelia Kudin led discussion of Yang (2016), Ch. 1 and 2 (handout available here)
2018
December 10: CUNY abstract workshop
November 26: CAMP practice talks
November 19: Jenny Bellik and Tom Roberts presented on "Verbatim memory for surface features: The case of stress shift"
October 29: CAMP abstract workshop
October 15: Forster et al. (2009): "The maze task: Measuring forced incremental sentence processing time"
October 8: NSF Workshop
May 31: Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz. (2018). Children's attitude problems: Bootstrapping verb meaning from syntax and pragmatics. Mind and Language.
May 17: Netta Ben-Meir presented results from her recent acceptability judgment experiment in a talk entitled “The role of judgment type in Hebrew Free Inversion”
May 10: Dillon, B., Staub, A., Levy, J., & Clifton Jr, C. (2017). Which noun phrases is the verb supposed to agree with?: Object agreement in American English. Language, 93 (1), 65-96.
May 3: UMass grad Chris Hammerly presented joint work with Adrian Staub and Brian Dillon in a talk entitled “The grammaticality asymmetry in agreement attraction reflects response bias: Experimental and modeling evidence”
April 26: In a joint meeting with S-Circle, UC Berkeley grad Kenny Backlawski gave a presentation entitled “The discourse subordination effect and the syntax-discourse interface”
April 19: Anderson, J. R., & Reder, L. M. (1999). The fan effect: New results and new theories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128 (2), 186.
April 12: Staub, A., Foppolo, F., Donati, C., & Cecchetto, C. (2018). Relative clause avoidance: Evidence for a structural parsing principle. Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 26-44.
March 9: Margaret Kroll presented joint work with Chelsea Miller, Matt Wagers, and Amanda Rysling entitled “What you remember and why: Evidence from sluicing”
March 8: Adrian Brasoveanu gave a talk entitled “A cognitively realistic left-corner parser with visual and motor interface”
February 22: Jake Vincent gave a presentation on extraction from complex NP islands.
February 15: Informal round robin for everyone to get feedback on experiments they are planning to run.
February 8: Kush, D., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. (2015). Relation-sensitive retrieval: evidence from bound variable pronouns. Journal of Memory and Language, 82, 18-40.
February 1: Parker, D. (2017). Processing multiple gap dependencies: Forewarned is forearmed. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 175-186.
January 25: Adrian Brasoveanu presented joint work with Jakub Dotlačil on embedding linguistic theories into Bayesian models.
January 18: Kazanina, N., Lau, E. F., Lieberman, M., Yoshida, M., & Phillips, C. (2007). The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, 56(3), 384-409.
2017
December 6: Tom Roberts presented work on bias in Estonian polar questions.
November 15: Amanda Rysling and lab alum Shayne Sloggett gave a presentation on focus.
November 8: Margaret Kroll presented on the role of prosody and discourse status in the allocation of working memory resources.
November 1: Nick Van Handel presented ongoing work on syntactic adaptation to prepositional object gaps.
October 25: Jed Pizarro-Guevara presented work on the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Tagalog.
October 18: Steven Foley gave a practice talk for NELS.
October 11: Matt Wagers presented ongoing research on complex subject integration.
June 6: Zawiszewski, A. & Friederici, A.D. (2009). Processing canonical and non-canonical sentences in Basque: The case of object-verb agreement as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Brain Research 1284, 161-79.
May 30: Laka, I., & Erdocia, K. (2012). Linearization preferences given “Free Word Order”; subject preferences given ergativity: A look at Basque. In E. Torrengo (ed.), Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera (pp. 115-42). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
May 16: Sauppe, S. (2016). Verbal semantics drives early anticipatory eye movements during the comprehension of verb-initial sentences. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1–13,
May 2: Ussishkin, A., Warner, N., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Carnie, A., Hammond, M., & Fisher, M. (2017). Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8 (1), 1–34,
April 25: Discussion of CUNY 2017 posters (part 2)
Morgan, A.M., von der Malsburg, T., Ferreira, V.S, & Wittenberg, E. This is the structure that we wonder why anyone produces it: Resumptive pronouns in English help production but hinder comprehension
Fadlon, J., Morgan, A.M., Meltzer-Asscher, A., & Ferreira, V.S. English and Hebrew speakers use language-specific strategies to produce communicatively efficient relative clauses.
April 18: Discussion of CUNY 2017 posters (part 1)
Ryskin, R., Fine, A., & Brown-Schmidt, S. Do listeners learn speaker/accent-specific syntactic biases?
Cunnings, I., & Sturt, P. Locality and discourse constraints in reflexive resolution.
March 17: Jenny Bellik, Steven Foley, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, and Tom Roberts talked about the project they were working on last quarter. The project asks whether we have surface memory for prosodic shape.
February 24: Dillon, B., Clifton, C. Jr., & Frazier, L. (2014). Pushed aside: Parentheticals, memory and processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29 (4), 483-98.
Margaret Kroll talked about the replication study of Dillon et. al (2014) and follow-up experiments she's conducted.
February 17: Matt Wagers talked about distinct, co-active parses during language comprehension (joint work with Brian Dillon and Caroline Andrews).
February 3: Sumner, M. (2002). The reality of abstract representations in Modern Hebrew. In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 21. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 420-42.
Jed Pizarro-Guevara also gave us an update on his recent fieldwork in Davao City, Philippines. He collected behavioral data for his nasal substitution project.
2016
November 29 : Deniz Rudin talked to us about his project on resumptive pronouns: is resumption a feature of A-bar dependencies in general, or a feature of relative clauses in particular? Theories of resumption tend to discuss it in terms of A-bar dependencies in general, while presenting only data in which the resumptive pronoun is in a relative clause. Speakers (of English, Hebrew and Arabic, at least) report that resumptive pronouns in A-bar dependencies other than relative clauses are significantly degraded relative to relative clause resumption.
November 1 : Recent alum Chelsea Miller talked to us about some follow-up experiments that she's conducted to expand the scope of her MA thesis!
October 18 : Truckenbrodt, H., Sandalo, F., & Abaurre, B. (2009). Elements of Brazilian Portuguese intonation. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 8(1), 75-114.
Kelsey Kraus also talked about the project she's working on that extends her work on modal particles. The aim is to try to extract prosodic contours from meanings that are projected on various discourse particles. She'll be presenting the design of the experiment she's in the process of running for both English and German, created to disconnect particles from prosodic environments that they occur in!
October 11 : Polinsky, M., Gomez Gallo, C., Graff, P., & Kravtchenko, E. (2012). Subject preference and ergativity. Lingua 122, 267-77.
Steven Foley also presented the design of the project that he's been working on for his second QP that looks at the role of morphological cues in relative clause processing in Georgian.
October 4 : Kouider, S. & Dupoux, E. (2009). Episodic accessibility and morphological processing: Evidence from long-term auditory priming. Acta Psychologica, 130, 38-47.
Jed Pizarro-Guevara also presented the design of the project that he's been working on for his second QP that looks at lexical retrieval and the nature of representations in morphologically complex words in Cebuano, a language spoken in the Philippines.
June 10: Jed Pizarro-Guevara gave a practice talk for AFLA
May 13: Nate Arnett gave us an update on a series of experiments looking at object control in English.
May 6: Grad students taking Ling 258 (Advanced Psycholinguistics) got feedback on their course projects.
April 22: Deniz Rudin talked about the processing of scalar implicatures.
April 15: Matt Wagers and Sandy Chung talked about their project on Chamorro reflexives.
April 8: Chelsea Miller and Jed Pizarro-Guevara talked about 2 posters of interest from CUNY.
February 26: McCourt, M., Green, J., Lau, E., & Williams, A. (2015). Processing implicit control: Evidence from reading times. Frontiers in Psychology.
February 19: Chelsea Miller and Jed Pizarro-Guevara gave practice poster presentations for CUNY.
February 12: Phillips, C. & Wagers, M. (2007). Relating structure and time in linguistics and psycholinguistics. In Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 739–756). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
February 5: Chow, Smith, Lau, & Phillips (2015). A "bag of arguments” mechanism for initial verb prediction. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience.
January 29: Chacón, D.A., Imtiaz, Mashrur, Dasgupta, Shirsho, Murshed, S.M., Dan, M, & Phillips, C. (to appear). Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla.
January 22: Phillips, C. (2003). Linear order and constituency. Linguistic Inquiry, 34 (1), 37-90.
January 15: Baayen, R. H., & Milin, P. (2010). Analyzing reaction times. International Journal of Psychological Research, 3 (2), 12-28.
2015
June 5: Meeting was also dedicated to provide feedback to projects that students are working on. Chelsea's project looks at possibility of agreement attraction after ellipsis sites in noun phrase ellipsis to determine whether there is reactivation at ellipsis sites. Jed's project looks at the role of Tagalog agreement/voice morphology in the comprehension of filler-gap dependencies.
May 29: Keshev, M. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2014). Implications of resumption for the parsing of Hebrew islands.
Meeting was also dedicated to provide feedback to projects that students are working on. Jenny Bellik, Kelsey Kraus, Steven Foley, and Jeff Adler are working on a project that looks at the comprehension of resumptive pronouns in English in real-time.
May 22: Alexiadou, A. & Gengel, K. (2008). NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: The role of classifiers. Workshop on Interface-Based Approaches to Information Structure University.
May 15: Snider, N., & Runner, J.T. (2010). Structural parallelism aids ellipsis and anaphor resolution: Evidence from eye movements to semantic and phonological neighbors. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP).
May 1: Nate Arnett presented his recent work on object control.
April 24: Lewis, S., & Phillips, C. (2013). Aligning grammatical theories and language processing models. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44 (1), 27–46.
April 17: Hofmeister, P. (2010). Representational complexity and memory retrieval in language comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26 (3), 376–405.
April 10: Frazier, L., & Clifton Jr, C. (2002). Processing “d-linked” phrases. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31 (6), 633-659.
March 3: Jed Pizarro-Guevara presented his work on the acquisition of Tagalog relative clauses
February 10: Christianson, K., & Cho, H. Y. (2009). Interpreting null pronouns (pro) in isolated sentences. Lingua, 119 (7), 989-1008.