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July 02, 2024 Linguistics

Sathvik Nair, PhD student in Linguistics, standing in front of a brick wall painted colorfully with geometric shapes, smiling broadly.

On Islands and the object of Surprisal.

The Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) meets June 27-29 in Irvine at its UC, and this year there are two talks by present Terps, at all levels: undergraduate CS major and PULSAR student Avni Gulrajani; PhD student Sathvik Nair; and their faculty mentors Jeff Lidz and Philip Resnik:

Reassessing a model of syntactic island acquisition, Avni Gulrajani and Jeffrey Lidz

Words, Subwords, and Morphemes: What Really Matters in the Surprisal-Reading Time Relationship?, Sathvik Nair and Philip Resnik

There as also a talk involving alum Brian Dillon: 

CCG parsing effort and surprisal jointly predict RT but underpredict garden-path effects, Satoru Ozaki, Aniello De Santo, Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon