MT19 Week 5

Post date: Nov 05, 2019 9:3:52 AM

Carrying on with last week's theme, but also gearing up for conference abstract season, I thought it might be fun to have a look at some recent abstracts around prediction. The first, on lexical prediction, follows quite nicely from Ness & Meltzer-Asscher (2018): Rich, S. & Harris, J.A. Disconfirmed lexical predictions linger in highly constraining contexts. CUNY Human Sentence Processing abstract. [poster link]

There have also been some really interesting recent abstracts on structural prediction:

• • Blake, K.-A., Gietz, F. & Grant, M. (2016). Prediction and inhibition of syntactic structure: evidence from either (of the)… or. CUNY Human Sentence Processing abstract. [pg 172 of the full CUNY program]

  • Rich, S. & Harris, J.A. (2017). Predicted analyses linger: The case for structural prediction with either-or structures. CUNY Human Sentence Processing abstract. [poster link]

  • Rich, S. & Harris, J.A. (2019). Thinking ahead has its limits: Structural prediction with correlative and quantificational “both”. CUNY Human Sentence Processing abstract. [poster link]

  • Blake, K.-A., Gietz, F. & Grant, M. (2019). Syntactic prediction without lexical activation: Evidence from both (of the)…and. CUNY Human Sentence Processing abstract.

We'll be examining how this area has been developing while getting a good sense of how to write a successful abstract!