9.591J | Fall 2004 | Graduate

Language Processing

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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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2

Resources and Sentence Complexity

The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences

The Dependency Locality Theory

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3

Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension

Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko

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4

Resources and Ambiguity Resolution

The Serial / Parallel Question

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5

Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution

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6

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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8

Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence Comprehension

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9

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

 

11

Discourse Coherence

Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf

 

12

Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension

 

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