Language Processing

Calendar

Lec #	Topics	Key DATES
1	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
2	Resources and Sentence Complexity The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences The Dependency Locality Theory	Short review paper 1 due
3	Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko
4	Resources and Ambiguity Resolution The Serial / Parallel Question
5	Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution	Short review paper 2 due
6	Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing Parsing Strategies Shift-reduce Parsing
7	Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension
8	Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence Comprehension	Short paper 3 due
9	Representational Issues in Syntax: Behavioral evidence for the existence of empty categories Behavioral Evidence that English is Context-free
10	Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension	Short paper 4 due
11	Discourse Coherence Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf
12	Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension	Final paper due three days after lecture 12