Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics Seminar
LING 264. Seminar in Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics.
Overview.
The Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics Seminar provides opportunities to workshop ideas for work in progress, work through a paper, or give a practice talk. Presenters may also give tutorials on methods, statistics, or programming experiments. It may be taken for 2 or 4 credits. Auditors are also welcome, even those without prior experience in psycholinguistics!
A current schedule is provided below.
Winter 2022
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:30PM – Zoom
Continuing the joint Psycholinguistics / Computational Linguistics joint seminar!
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes and other events |
| 1 | Jan 6 | Organization | |
| 2 | Jan 13 | Lexical norms in English (Bryor) | |
| 3 | Jan 20 | PCIbex (Isa) | |
| 4 | Jan 27 | Prosody and garden paths in Brazillian Portuguese (Vitor) | |
| 5 | Feb 3 | Generalizing active gap-filling (Tim) | |
| 6 | Feb 10 | Modeling the Kindergarten Path: Towards implementing a probabilistic beam-search parser (Katya) | |
| 7 | Feb 17 | No meeting | IDRE: R Markdown basics on Tue, Feb 15 |
| 8 | Feb 24 | Tim and Laurel | NB. Jesse away for this session |
| 9 | Mar 3 | Journal club | IDRE: Introduction to GLMs in R on Tue, Mar 1 |
| 10 | Mar 10 | HSP practice presentations | HSP in Santa Cruz, Mar 24-26 |
Past seminar schedules
Spring 2021
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Zoom
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | Apr 1 | Organization | CAMP submissions |
| 2 | Apr 8 | Linear mixed effect structures discussion, applications to acquisition | |
| 3 | Apr 15 | ||
| 4 | Apr 22 | BUCLD abstract workshop | |
| 5 | Apr 29 | Idan Blank | |
| 6 | May 6 | ||
| 7 | May 13 | ||
| 8 | May 20 | Isabel Benvenuti | CAMP May 22-23 |
| 9 | May 27 | Carson Schütze | |
| 10 | Jun 3 |
Fall 2020
Carson Schütze
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Zoom
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | Oct 8 | What we did over the summer | |
| 2 | Oct 15 | (no meeting) | Words in the World conference Oct 16-18 http://wordsintheworld.ca/wow-conference-2020/ |
| 3 | Oct 22 | (no meeting) | |
| 4 | Oct 29 | Marju Kaps (portion of dissertation defense) | |
| 5 | Nov 5 | No meeting | BUCLD Conf Nov 5-8 http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/browse-abstracts-2020/
NELS Conf Nov 6-8 https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/linguistique/en/nels51/ |
| 6 | Nov 12 | Minqi Liu: Acquisition of Mandarin long & short passives; Phil Barnett: Learning advantage in arc-eager parsing | |
| 7 | Nov 19 | Idan Blank (UCLA Psychology/Linguistics) | Fri Nov 20, 3:30 pm: Psych Dept CogSci Talk: Rachel Ryskin (UC Merced): something about language learning across the lifespan [will update details when received] |
| 8 | Nov 26 | THANKSGIVING |  |
| 9 | Dec 3 | Prepare CUNY abstracts | |
| 10 | Dec 10 | Prepare CUNY abstracts |
Winter 2020
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | Jan 9 | No meeting | |
| 2 | Jan 16 | Organizational session | |
| 3 | Jan 23 | No meeting | RMarkdown at IDRE 9-12 |
| 4 | Jan 30 | Angelica: Intro to tidyverse – Part 1 | |
| 5 | Feb 6 | Adam: Pilot data on agreement attraction
Angelica: Intro to tidyverse – Part 2 |
Please install packages for tidyverse for R in advance and bring laptop |
| 6 | Feb 13 | Abeer: Journal club on L2
Isabel: Bilingual processing of RCs |
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| 7 | Feb 20 | Jesse: Practice talk | |
| 8 | Feb 27 | No meeting | |
| 9 | Mar 5 | CUNY practice: Canaan, Jesse, Marju, Vahideh | |
| 10 | Mar 12 | CUNY practice: Allie, Marju, Jeremy |
Fall 2019
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 0 | Sep 26 | Summer updates and organization | CAMP3 abstracts and registration due Wed Sep 25 |
| 1 | Oct 3 | No meeting | |
| 2 | Oct 10 | CAMP abstract reviews | Intro to R and GIT at IDRE |
| 3 | Oct 17 | Preparation for Frazier visit: Harris, Clifton, & Frazier (2013) Schwarz (2019) |
Lyn Frazier colloq, Fri Oct 18 |
| 4 | Oct 24 | CAMP practice talks | CAMP3 at UCSC Oct 26-27 |
| 5 | Oct 31 | Kiki Liu BUCLD practice talk
Preparation for Yoshida visit: |
LabPhon abstracts due Fri Nov 1, Masaya Yoshida colloq, Fri Nov 1; Judith Kroll talk at Cognitive Forum, Fri Nov 1 at 3:30; Intro to Jupyter at IDRE |
| 6 | Nov 7 | Christine Canaan |
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| 7 | Nov 14 | Allie Quansheng |
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| 8 | Nov 21 | CUNY abstract review session I | |
| 9 | Nov 28 | Thanksgiving – No meeting | |
| 10 | Dec 5 | CUNY abstract review session II | CUNY abstracts due Thu Dec 5; Speech Prosody due Fri Dec 20. |
Spring 2019
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | Apr 3 | Organizational meeting | 2019-2020 colloquium voting |
| 2 | Apr 11 | Elevator pitches and website blurbs | Post 1 and 2 |
| 3 | Apr 18 | Research reports | IDRE gpplot2 workshop |
| 4 | Apr 25 | ggplot2 practice | |
| 5 | May 2 | Guest speaker: Chris Hammerly (UMass) | Starts at 4:15 due to Chomsky visit |
| 6 | May 9 | Vahideh Rasekhi; Angelica Pan | |
| 7 | May 15 | Guest speakers: Alex Goebel (UMass); Margaret Kroll (UCSC) | |
| 8 | May 23 | Eye tracking scripting | |
| 9 | May 30 | Marju Kaps; Allie Lawn | |
| 10 | Jun 6 | Practice talks for PiPP and EPC | |
Winter 2018
Jesse Harris
Thursday 3-4:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | Jan 10 | Organizational meeting | Prediction abstracts due Jan 11; |
| 2 | Jan 17 | Journal club on Interference in memory (Allie leading) | CLS abstracts due Jan 23 |
| 3 | Jan 24 | Journal club on Pupillometry (Allie, Marju, Jesse) Prospectus workshop (Adam) |
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| 4 | Jan 31 | Journal club on Methods (Jesse leading) | CogSci abstracts due Feb 1 |
| 5 | Feb 7 | Journal club on Production (Adam leading) | |
| 6 | Feb 14 | Journal club on Computational psycholinguistics | |
| 7 | Feb 21 | Presentations: Marju, Christine, Kiki | |
| 8 | Feb 28 | Presentations: Canaan, Gemma, Allie | |
| 9 | Mar 7 | ||
| 10 | Mar 14 | CUNY preparation | Lyn Frazier colloq Friday, Mar 15 |
| 11 | Mar 21 | CUNY preparation | CUNY Mar 29-31 |
Fall 2018
Jesse Harris
Thursday 3-4:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 0 | Sep 27 | Summer updates | |
| 1 | Oct 4 | ETAP poster (Jesse, Sun-Ah) | |
| 2 | Oct 11 | Jesse at ETAP | |
| 3 | Oct 18 | Contrastive topics in Estonian (Marju) | Rysling colloq, Oct 19 |
| 4 | Oct 25 | BUCLD poster (Chie, Jesse, Sun-Ah) / Christine | |
| 5 | Nov 1 | CAMP abstract student session | Chie and Jesse at BUCLD |
| 6 | Nov 8 | Transparent free relatives (Beth) / Acquisition in Mandarin (Minqi) | |
| 7 | Nov 15 | Aya / Contrastive focus and adaptation (Chie) | |
| 8 | Nov 22 | Thanksgiving | |
| 9 | Nov 29 | CAMP practice talks | Kaiser colloq Nov 30, CAMP at USC Dec 2-3 |
| 10 | Dec 6 | CAMP debriefing / CUNY abstract session | CUNY abstracts due Dec 10 |
Spring 2018
Jesse Harris
Thursday 4-5:50PM – Campbell 2122 (Conference Room)
Preliminary weekly schedule.
| Week | Date | Topic (Presenter) | Notes |
| 1 | April 5, 2018 | SR Research Experiment Builder demo (Stephanie) | Video overview |
| 2 | April 12, 2018 | Visual world paradigm (Chie) | |
| 3 | April 19, 2018 | CLS practice talks (Jesse on Russian serial verbs; Marju on word order in Estonian) | |
| 4 | April 26, 2018 | Workshop abstracts | Jesse and Marju away at CLS |
| 5 | May 3, 2018 | Factive reports (Travis & Beth) / Semantic processing in Uyghur (Travis) | |
| 6 | May 10, 2018 | LynFest practice talk (Jesse on resolving sluices to disjunct correlates) | |
| 7 | May 17, 2018 | TBD | Jesse and Stephanie away at LynFest at UMass |
| 8 | May 24, | Grammatical illusions and prosody (Adam) | Note: Short session due to the Friends of Linguistics talks 5-7PM |
| 9 | May 31, 2018 | Appositives (Allie & Marju) / TBD | |
| 10 | June 7, 2018 | TBD |