Curso “Prosody in online sentence processing: 

Foundations and prospects”

Nota: el curso será impartido en inglés

Target audience:

The course is aimed at intermediate to advanced graduate students and any scholars interested in the course topic. While participants will ideally have had previous exposure to prosody, psycholinguistics, or both, the content will be made accessible even to those without prior knowledge.

Course description:

Prosody covers a wide range of phenomena, including intonational structure, rhythm, and stress.The relationship between the phonological grammar and the syntax is complex, as multiple prosodic representations may be compatible with a single syntactic structure. However, there is increasing evidence that speakers and hearers rely heavily on prosodic information during incremental sentence processing, inviting numerous foundational questions for the architecture of the language processing system.

The proposed course addresses several major themes in the current literature on the use prosody in sentence processing, including (i) evidence for prosodic and metrical structure in silent reading, (ii) the influence of intonational phrasing on syntactic parsing, ambiguity resolution, and predictive processing, and (iii) the use of focus markers in generating focus alternatives online.

The short course will invite open-ended discussion on how complex linguistic mappings and the resulting representations might be integrated into existing models of sentence processing.

Attendees will be encouraged to consider what kinds of information the comprehender may have to prioritize during online processing and the extent to which the interpretation of such information may be affected by broader contextual factors, such as speaker intention, as well as how prosodic grouping may interface with other cognitive representations, such as memory.

Finally, various paradigms used in prosodic processing research, including offline questionnaires, structural priming, silent reading, visual world studies, pupillometry, and electroencephalography, will be introduced and evaluated. There will be a special focus on pupillometry, with the final day dedicated towards reviewing this method with case studies from ongoing research.

Course syllabus:

https://ucla.app.box.com/s/l5wzaeir48d20ig7f9q079sb0lh10qk0/file/1741508061475

Datos:

Fechas: 13 al 16 de enero de 2025

Horario: 11-13 hrs.

Modalidad: Presencial

Lugar: Auditorio Helena da Silva, ENALLT

Imparte: 

Dr. Jesse Harris, UCLA

https://jesseharris.netlify.app/

Cupo limitado a 20 asistentes. 

Se dará constancia de participación con el 75% de asistencia.

Registro

Para completar tu registro, es necesario que nos escribas a:        linguisticaexperimental@enallt.unam.mx