| Lec # | Topics | Key DATES |
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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 |
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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 |
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4 |
Resources and Ambiguity Resolution The Serial / Parallel Question |
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5 |
Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution |
Short review paper 2 due |
6 |
Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing Parsing Strategies Shift-reduce Parsing |
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7 |
Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension |
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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 |
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10 |
Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension |
Short paper 4 due |
11 |
Discourse Coherence Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf |
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12 |
Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension |
Final paper due three days after lecture 12 |