HSP at UMD!

Human Sentence Processing, led by Terrapins.

March 27-29, the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (formerly CUNY) is right here at UMD, organized by Jared Novick (HESP), Yi Ting Huang (HESP), Rochelle Newman (HESP) and Bob Slevc (PSYC), along with Deanna Gagne from Gallaudet and Patrick Plummer from Howard. Among the five invited speakers are two local talents: Charlotte Vaughn from the LSC and Planet Word, plus our own Philip Resnik. There will also be a Special Session on outreach, meant to "enhance psycholinguists’ ability to appreciate the link between their scientific interests and the needs of the wider community." And always, tons of Terrapin content! From students and faculty in Linguistics: Jenna Baranov, Mal Shah, Rosa Lee, Sathvik Nair, Sebastián Mancha and Utku Türk, Colin Phillips, Ellen Lau, Jeff Lidz, Naomi Feldman and of course Phillip Resnik, as an invited speaker. From faculty from elsewhere on campus: Bob Slevc, Jared Novick and Yi Ting Huang. And from our PhD alumni, past Baggetts, and past visitors: Alex Krauska *24, Brian Dillon *11, Christian Brodbeck, Craig Thorburn *23, Dan Parker *14, Dave Kush *13, Diego Almeida *09, Jeff Green *19, Jon Sprouse *07, Julie Gerard *16, Maggie Kandel, Matt Husband, Matt Wagers *08, Nick Huang *19, Shayne Sloggett, Shota Momma *16, Sol Lago *14, Tim Hunter *10, Tyler Knowlton *21, Zuzanna Fuchs and Zoe Ovans. 

Invited talks

• Philip Resnik / TBA
• Charlotte Vaughn / Research as engagement and other insights from the Language Science Station at Planet Word

Talks

• Utku Turk / Turkish register manipulation eliminates grammaticality asymmetry in attraction and challenges retrieval based accounts (abstract)
• Eun-Kyoung Lee, Sathvik Nair and Naomi Feldman / (Un)likely words in context: A divergence between humans and large language models (abstract)

Posters

• Lauren Salig, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Jared Novick and L. Robert Slevc / Intrasentential Code-switches Enhance Recall in Bilingual Listener (abstract)
• Nick Huang and Colin Phillips / The timecourse of “under/connected” thematic relations in center-embedding illusions (abstract)
• Eun-Kyoung Lee, Elise Oltrogge and Sol Lago / Can planned words trigger interference during real-time sentence production? (abstract)
• Malhaar Shah, Tyler Knowlton, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski and Jeffrey Lidz / Uniformity of verification strategies within and across individuals: Predicting performance with most-sentences from performance with more-sentences (abstract)
• Jenna Baranov, Robert Kluender and Ellen Lau / Processing of Multiple Long-Distance Dependencies in Russian: an EEG Study (abstract)
• Sathvik Nair, Cassandra Jacobs, Philip Resnik and Colin Phillips / Evidence for the contribution of semantic factors on speeded cloze production times (abstract)
• Sebastián Mancha, Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips / Memory and Priming in production of pronominal clitics in Spanish (abstract)
• Megan Kanaby, Arynn Byrd and Yi Ting Huang / Understanding SES variation in family lives using semi-structured interviews (abstract)
• Mackensie Blair, Kathleen Oppenheimer, Roshean Asmah, Samantha Weatherford, Yi Ting Huang and Amanda Owen Van Horne / Event apprehension and argument roles during sentence production: An individual differences approach to the role of linguistic knowledge (abstract)
• Yi Wei, Ciaran Stone, L. Robert Slevc, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and Christian Brodbeck / Spatiotemporal signature of morphosyntactic planning in English sentence production (abstract)
• Hanna-Sophia Shine and Robert Slevc / The Influence of Accent Prestige on Lexical and Syntactic Alignment in Dialogue (abstract)
• Amanda Van Horne, Kuan-Jung Huang, Mackensie Blair, Megan Kanaby, Henry May, Kathleen Oppenheimer, Samuel Van Horne and Yi Ting Huang / Understanding real-time syntactic parsing in typical development and developmental language disorder: A visual-world study (abstract)
• Madeleine Wade, Jared Novick and Albert Kim / Conflict Resolution during Sentence Processing Elevates Proactive Cognitive Control. (abstract)