UMD at HSP at MIT

Planning, predicting, retrieving and more.

March 26-28, MIT hosts the 39th Human Sentence Processing conference (formerly CUNY), and the damp vernal footpaths of East Cambridge once again crawl with past and present Terrapins! Contributing to the their 40 talks and posters are PhD students Utku Turk, Sathvik Nair, Alba Jorquera Jiménez de Aberásturi, Katherine Howitt and Allison Dods; postdoc Samer Nour Eddine; faculty Aron Hirsch, Ellen Lau, Jeff Lidz, Colin Phillips and Philip Resnik, as well as Yi Ting Huang and Jared Novick from Hearing and Speech Sciences,  Bob Slevc from Psychology, and Jonathan Simon from Electrical Engineering; PhD alums Masaya Yoshida *06 (Barcelona), Matt Wagers *08 (Santa Cruz), Dan Parker *14 (OSU), Shota Momma *16 (UMass), Sol Lago *14 (Goethe University Frankfurt), Dave Kush *13 (Toronto), Jeff Green *18 (BYU) , Brian Dillon *11 (UMass) and Dustin Chacón *15 (Santa Cruz);  postdoctoral alums Ming Xiang (Chicago) and Martin Hackl (MIT); Baggett alums Christopher Hammerly (UBC) and Shayne Sloggett (York); and BA alum Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason).

Current Terps

• Özge Bakay, Utku Turk, Duygu Demiray, Brian Dillon / Tracking structural cues or relying on probabilistic inference in Turkish agreement? [short talk]
• Utku Turk / (In)sensitivity to surface-level heuristics: A case from Turkish verbal attractors [poster]
• Utku Turk, Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips / When do we plan agreement: Evidence from unaccusatives and agreement attraction [poster]
• Eva Neu, Utku Türk, Özge Bakay, Brian Dillon and Gaja Jarosz / Frequency modulates structural choices in Turkish non-local derivational morphemes [poster]
• Kelly Marshall, L. Robert Slevc, Jared Novick, Stefanie Kuchinsky / Tracking discourse status in real time after traumatic brain injury [poster]
• Ziying Zhang and Colin Phillips / The Influence of Category-Level Expectations on the Effect of Word-Level Surprisal [long tralk]
• Samer Nour Eddine, Sathvik Nair, Alba Jorquera Jiménez de Aberásturi, Jonathan Simon, Philip Resnik / Predictive coding explains dissociable neural and behavioral signatures of sentence processing [short talk]
• Thomas Hansen, Aileen Guo, Anthony Yacovone, Samer Nour Eddine and Gina Kuperberg / From Feedforward to Feedback: Converging evidence from M/EEG and predictive coding simulations of residual information flow in the language system [short talk]
• Anthony Yacovone, Samer Nour Eddine, Thomas Hansen and Gina Kuperberg / Timing is everything: EEG and Predictive Coding simulations show that reading conditions influence whether late frontal positivities track misprediction or lexical predictability [poster]
• Sathvik Nair and Byung-Doh Oh / Should language models replace the cloze task forever? [poster]
• Sathvik Nair, Philip Resnik and Colin Phillips / Sampling-Based Assumptions Simplify Modeling of Speeded Cloze Response Times [poster]
• Alba Jorquera Jimémez de Aberásturi and Dave Kush / Distance Modulates Interference from Inappropriate QPs on Pronoun Resolution in Spanish [poster]
• Kuan-Jung Huang, Roger Levy and Yi Ting Huang / A-Mazing kids: A-Maze's viability and potential to study child incremental processing [poster]
• Katherine Howitt and Aron Hirsch / Processing effects obscure grammatical analyses in multiple gap constructions [poster]
• Katherine Howitt, Ethan Baker and Jeffrey Lidz / A double disassociation between humans and LLMs [poster]
• Allison Dods / Representing constructional homonyms: Evidence from LLMs and children’s input [poster]

Terp Alumni

• Kazuma Kimura and Masaya Yoshida / Where Shortness and Earliness Compete: Processing of Fronted Complex-Wh-NPs in Japanese [poster]
• Austin Keen and Masaya Yoshida / When the bucket is kicked flat: Resultatives and the time course of idiom processing [poster]
• Fan Xia and Ming Xiang / Gradient Activation of Syntactic Structures Facilitates Recovery from Garden Paths [poster]
• Fan Xia and Ming Xiang / Predictability Effects on Memory Retrieval Are Structure-Dependent [poster]
• Xuetong Yuan, Minjae Joh and Ming Xiang / QUD variability in naturalistic discourse predicts scalar inference variability [poster]
• Mandy Cartner, Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani, Matt Wagers / Grammatical resumptive pronouns facilitate processing before they are perceived [short talk]
• Matthew Kogan, Aditi Borra, Ruoqing Yao, Matt Wagers / Syntactic positional similarity modulates interference for thematic and agreement dependencies [long talk]
• Matthew Wagers, Sujin Lee and Brian Dillon / Verbatim recall is pervasive and stable across individuals [poster]
• Nino Grillo, Buhan Gao, Shayne Sloggett and Keir Moulton / Composition-sensitive predictions: Incremental processing of (Long Distance) Experientials [short talk]
• Samuele Bruzzese, Buhan Guo, Anh Ngo and Shayne Sloggett / Memory and Focus: Illusions of Plausibility
• Buhan Guo, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett, Giuseppina Turco, Sven Mattys and Nino Grillo / When context doesn't help: Reanalysis as last resort in cleft processing [poster]
• Dan Parker / Semantic interference in LLM attention: Evidence from relative clauses [short talk]
• Shota Momma, Grusha Prasad and Aniello De Santo / Not all nothings are represented alike: Evidence from cross-constructional null complementizer priming in English [poster]
• Shota Momma, Yurika Aonuki, Victor Ferreira, Gianluca Porta and Martin Hackl / How is did like that?: Hyper-abstract grammatical generalization in speaking [poster]
• Mari Kugemoto and Shota Momma / Do small clauses form a uniform class?: Evidence from structural priming [poster]
• Cynthia Lukyanenko, Frances Blanchette, Jessi Grieser and Paul E. Reed / Processing subject negative concord in three American Englishes
• Pu Meng, Cynthia Lukyanenko and Sylvia Woodrose Schwartz / Influence of Animacy and Collectivity on the Production of the OptionalMandarin Plural Marker "men"
• Jéssica Gomes, Sol Lago, João Veríssimo / Evidence for age-related improvements in language prediction
• Elise Oltrogge, Sol Lago, João Veríssimo, Umesh Patil / How incremental are predictions? Insights from cognitive modeling and eye-tracking
• Marcella Jurotich and Christopher Hammerly / Impact of Information Structure on Comprehension of the Inverse Verb Form in Ojibwe [poster]
• Jeffrey Green / The reliability of Maze versus self-paced reading for individual differences research [poster]
• Weijie Xu, Brian Dillon, Richard Futrell / Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in human sentence processing
• Subhekshya Shrestha and Dustin Chacón / Agreement depends on lexical access in at-a-glance reading: An EEG study in Spanish [poster]
• Dustin Alfonso Chacón, Subhekshya Shrestha and Brian Dillon / Lexical and morphosyntactic predictions are different: MEG studies in Hindi and Nepali [poster]