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Course Overview
Experimental methods: self-paced reading, eye-tracking, event-related potentials, on-line lexical decision, cross-modal priming, brain scanning
Modularity in Sentence Comprehension
Lexical and structural theories of ambiguity resolution in sentence comprehension
The effects of plausibility, context and lexical frequency in on-line processing |
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Resources and Sentence Complexity
The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences
The Dependency Locality Theory |
Short review paper 1 due |
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Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension
Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko |
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Resources and Ambiguity Resolution
The Serial / Parallel Question |
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Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution |
Short review paper 2 due |
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Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing
Parsing Strategies
Shift-reduce Parsing |
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Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension |
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Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence Comprehension |
Short paper 3 due |
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Representational Issues in Syntax: Behavioral evidence for the existence of empty categories
Behavioral Evidence that English is Context-free |
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Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension |
Short paper 4 due |
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Discourse Coherence
Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf |
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Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension |
Final paper due three days after lecture 12 |