Terps in Ann Arbor for HSP

Psycholinguistic Terrapins among the Michiganders.

May 16-18 the Human Sentence Processing Conference is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the flatlands will be crawling with Terrapins past and present, including Rosa, Sathvik, Allison D., Allison M. Sebastián and Utku, plus Ellen, Philip and Colin, from today's Department of Linguistics, as well as Lauren Salig, Bob Slevc, Jan Edwards and Jared Novick, from NACS, Psychology and HESP. Among the alumni are Linguistics PhDs Brian Dillon, Jeff Green, Dave Kush, Sol Lago, Shota Momma, Alayo Tripp and Matt Wagers, former Baggett Fellow Maggie Kandel, former HESP PhD Zachary Maher, former HESP postdoc Tal Ness, and former Linguistics postdoc Ming Xiang. A list of presentations is below. Notice that Alayo has the honor of giving one of the Invited Presentations.

On May 15 the Conference will also honor the late Janet Dean Fodor with a Memorial Workshop. Colin is among those delivering a presentation.

Presentations by present Terps

• Morphosyntax plays a unique role in listeners’ expectations about minoritized language / Zachary Maher, Jan Edwards, Jared Novick [talk]
• Cognitive control supports recovery from misanalysis: Evidence from neural oscillations / Valerie Langlois, Madeleine Wade, Angela Montiel, Tal Ness, Jared Novick, Albert Kim [talk]
• Is the octopus regenerating?: Comparing timing effects in sentence recall and picture description tasks / Allison Dods, Utku Türk, Allison Macdonald, Sebastián Mancha, Colin Phillips [poster]
• Speech timing evidence on the (in)dependence of roots and inflection in production / Utku Turk, Colin Phillips [poster]
• Interference in planning: Accuracy and timing evidence from real-time possessive pronoun production / Eun-Kyoung Lee, Sol Lago [poster]
• Words, Subwords, and Morphemes: Surprisal Theory and Units of Prediction / Sathvik Nair, Colin Phillips, Philip Resnik [poster]
• Bilinguals can predict upcoming ecological code-switches when given enough context  / Lauren Salig, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Jeymi Menendez, Mia Lulli, L. Robert Slevc [poster]
• Following the conversation: Topic shifts elicit switch costs in naturalistic discourse / Kelly Marshall, Avery Vess, Jared Novick, L. Robert Slevc [poster]

Presentations by alumni

• Alayo Tripp [invited talk]
• How far ahead does prediction span? The timing of verb pre-activation during sentence comprehension  / Jeonghwa Cho, Shota Momma, Jonathan Brennan
• A transient binding model of interference in sentence processing / Maayan Keshev, Mandy Cartner, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Brian Dillon
• Delayed structural prediction for relative clauses in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, a language with robust resumptive pronouns / John Duff, Delaney Gomez-Jackson, Fe Silva Robles, Maziar Toosarvandani, Matthew Wagers
• Effects of contextual constraint on word recognition in adults and 4–5 year-old children  / Margaret Kandel, Nan Li, Jesse Snedeker 
• Priming abstract modal representations in causatives and modals /  Angelica Hill, Shota Momma [poster]
• Thematic role is the major determinant of forming referential dependencies / Suet-Ying Lam, Shota Momma, Brian Dillon [poster]
• Feature distortion and memory updating: Experimental and modeling evidence / Maayan Keshev, Brian Dillon [poster]
• Interference effects in Tagalog reflexive processing: A visual world study / Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Brian Dillon [poster]
• Large-scale eye-tracking while reading benchmark shows surprisal captures early fixations, but not regressions / William Timkey, Suhas Arehalli, Kuan-Jung Huang, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon [poster]
• A Validation of the Bidirectional Self-Paced-Reading Paradigm / Subhekshya Shrestha, Ming Xiang [poster]
• Contextual effects on the processing of object control in temporal adjuncts / Jeffrey Green, Eross Coito-Paz [poster]
• Processing arguments in Korean nominal predicates / Nikolas Webster, Hanyoung Byun, Matt Wagers [poster]
• Probing Facilitatory and Inhibitory Interference with English Ditransitives / Matthew Kogan, Matt Wagers [poster]
• Canonical Argument Alignment Modulates Gap, but not RP, Acceptability in English / Matthew Kogan, Mandy Cartner, Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani, Matt Wagers [poster]
• Animacy does not modulate the subject relative clause advantage in Tagalog / Ivan Bondoc, Dave Kush [poster]
• Active expectations in processing Urdu and Hindi correlative structures / Urwa Ali, Sanvi Dubey, Ishita Kumar, Hayah Siddiqui, Dave Kush [poster]