Abstract: Participants exhibit the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ in wug-test responses, adjusting their probability of a response based on previous responses. In particular, they avoid giving the same response three times in a row. This effect was strongest when two options were explicitly presented (a 2-alternative forced choice task), and weaker when participants were simply asked to provide a response. The effect weakened further when participants performed the wug-test under cognitive load.

In let alone ellipsis, the remnant typically stands in prosodic contrast with its correlate (e.g., John can’t run a MILE, let alone a MARATHON). To interpret the remnant (a marathon), the processor must locate the contrasting correlate phrase (a mile) in the prior clause from among other same-category competitors. Experimental and corpus research finds that the most local possible correlate is vastly preferred (Locality Bias; Harris & Carlson, 2015), a bias that has been observed for other clausal ellipsis structures. This…

Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: -Discuss colloquium speaker nominations -Plan schedule for quarter

All members of the Linguistics Department are invited to a bonus talk with Bob Frank about the “Ways of using generative capacity and other formal properties of grammars to assess different varieties of neural networks.”

We’re continuing the combined computational andpsycholinguistics seminar this quarter; areas include language acquisition,computational psycholinguistics, language processing, and others inexperimental and computational linguistics. Anyone interested in these areasand their intersection is invited to attend.    We meet weekly on Thursdays 4-5:30 PM. The schedule isentirely open and can be found here. Our firstmeeting will be an organizational meeting this Thursday, Jan 6 at 4 PM overZoom. Zoom ling: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94900493030?pwd=bEtvWi9iSFhud25GMWE4MERPclRsZz09   Meeting ID: 949 0049 3030 Passcode: 832704   All are welcome –…

We’re continuing the combined computational andpsycholinguistics seminar this quarter; areas include language acquisition,computational psycholinguistics, language processing, and others inexperimental and computational linguistics. Anyone interested in these areasand their intersection is invited to attend.    We meet weekly on Thursdays 4-5:30 PM. The schedule isentirely open and can be found here. Our firstmeeting will be an organizational meeting this Thursday, Jan 6 at 4 PM overZoom. Zoom ling: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94900493030?pwd=bEtvWi9iSFhud25GMWE4MERPclRsZz09   Meeting ID: 949 0049 3030 Passcode: 832704   All are welcome –…

We’re continuing the combined computational andpsycholinguistics seminar this quarter; areas include language acquisition,computational psycholinguistics, language processing, and others inexperimental and computational linguistics. Anyone interested in these areasand their intersection is invited to attend.    We meet weekly on Thursdays 4-5:30 PM. The schedule isentirely open and can be found here. Our firstmeeting will be an organizational meeting this Thursday, Jan 6 at 4 PM overZoom. Zoom ling: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94900493030?pwd=bEtvWi9iSFhud25GMWE4MERPclRsZz09   Meeting ID: 949 0049 3030 Passcode: 832704   All are welcome –…