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psycholinguistics seminars

The psycholinguistics lab seminars take place on Mondays at 12h15. 

Please note that all the seminars will be broadcasted via Zoom, contact Olivia Hadjadj if you would like to join.

Next seminar:
Monday, December 19th 2022

Dr. Sandra Villata (NYUAD)

Experimental evidence for gradient effects and their consequences for theories of grammar

A common assumption in linguistics is that grammar is fundamentally binary: sentences are grammatical or ungrammatical, but they cannot have intermediate grammaticality values. As a result, the gradation that we typically observe in empirical measures (e.g. acceptability judgment ratings, response times, electrophysiological responses) is attributed to extra-grammatical factors, such as memory limitations, plausibility factors and so on and so forth. In this talk, I will discuss three sets of experimental studies that challenge these assumptions or some of their implications. I will show that: (i) syntactic violations might be violations to a degree, (ii) sentence processing operations might occur to a degree, and (iii) sentence comprehension might be less flawless that we would expect it to be if the parser were tightly aligned with a binary grammar. After reviewing these results, my hope is to encourage some discussion about the consequences of these findings for theories of grammars, from binary approaches to continuous ones.

Seminars 2022/2023

 DATE  SPEAKER  TITLE  HOST

 03.10.2022

 Dr. Silvia Radulescu

 University of Utrecht

 An Entropy and Noisy-Channel Model for Rule Induction  Samuel Schmid

 31.10.2022

 Prof. Valentina Borghesani
 University of Geneva

 Bringing clinical and cognitive neuroscience together to investigate semantics, above and beyond language

 Tanja Atanasova

07.11.2022 

 Emily Hunt

 Edith Cowan University

 Clinical applications of a systematic review: Can dynamic assessment identify language disorder in multilingual children?

 Olivia Hadjadj

 21.11.2022

 Prof. Sébastien Pacton

University Sorbonne Paris Cité

 Implicit statistical learning of graphotactic and morphological knowledge in lexical orthographic acquisition  Estelle Ardanouy

 05.12.2022

 Dr. Anne Keitel

University of Dundee

 How (individual differences in) brain rhythms influence speech processing  Tanja Atanasova

 19.12.2022

 Dr. Sandra Villata

NYUAD

 Experimental evidence for gradient effects and their consequences for theories of grammar  Julie Franck

 16.01.2023

 TBA

 

 

 30.01.2023

 TBA

   

 06.02.2023

 TBA

 

 

 20.02.2023

 Prof. Cécile De Cat

University of Leeds

A novel Dynamic Assessment task for reading comprehension in pre-adolescents

 Olivia Hadjadj

 06.03.2023

 TBA

 

 

 20.03.2023

 Prof. Laurie Tuller

University of Tours

Autism, bilingualism, and language modularity

 Hélène Delage 

 03.04.2023

 TBA

   

 17.04.2023

 TBA

 

 

 24.04.2023

 Prof. Despina Papadopoulou

University of Athens

Similarity effects in relative clauses: evidence from L1 & L2 Greek  Julie Franck

 01.05.2023

 TBA

 

 

15.05.2023

 Cancelled

 

 

 05.06.2023

 Dr. Pascal Gygax

University of Fribourg

Inclusive language: a storm in a tea cup or an answer to a real problem?

Michael De Pretto

 12.06.2023

 Dr. Geneviève Meloni

University of Montreal

TBA

Mélodie Matrat

 19.06.2023

 Prof. Jeffrey Bowers

University of Bristol

Deep Problems with Neural Network Models of Human Vision

Julie Franck

 22.06.2023

 Prof. Amy Glaspey

University of Montana

Dynamic Assessment of Phonology

Margaret Kehoe

 

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