STEP

CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics

Advancing the methodological skills and conceptual prowess of students of linguistics and psycholinguistics since 2014.

The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop in current issues and methods in psycholinguistics. STEP will take place in Edmonton, Alberta from May 26-31, 2025.

The Spring School is directed at postdoctoral fellows, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods.

Courses

1. A short overview and introduction to statistics and R, Dalia Cristerna-Román and Vera Xia, University of Alberta

2. Introduction to Mixed-Effects Modelling with LME4, Hannah Lam and Veranika Puhacheuskaya, University of Alberta

3. Embrace the complexities of bilingual development: statistical methods beyond linear regression, Youran Lin, University of Alberta

4. The fundamentals of data visualization in R, Guilherme D. Garcia, Université Laval

5. Generalized additive modeling for Linguistics, Martijn Wieling, University of Groningen

6. Understanding Surprisal in (Large) Language Models and Its Applications in Psycholinguistics, Carrie Demmans Epp and Jai Riley, University of Alberta and Gaisha Oralova, University of Pittsburgh