Computational Psycholinguistics Lab

We’ve got one of the much-coveted talk slots at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing at The Ohio State University, March 13-15, 2014:

• The mind leads the eyes: Ungrammaticality detection from two words back in reading
  Klinton Bicknell and Roger Levy

Hope to see you there!

We’ve got five talks at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in balmy Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2-5. Hope to see you there!

• Comprehension priming as rational expectation for repetition: Evidence from syntactic processing
  Mark Myslín and Roger Levy [abstract]
• Direct experience versus abstract knowledge in linguistic processing
  Emily Morgan and Roger Levy [abstract]
• Mapping linguistic phenomena on Twitter and other “big data” sources
  Gabriel Doyle [abstract]
• Processing difficulty doesn’t always lower acceptability: the case of lexical frequency
  Emily Morgan [abstract]
• Analogy and predictability in Russian noun stress patterns
  Jasmeen Kanwal, Roger Levy, and Eric Bakovic [abstract]

Our lab has a talk at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1-3 November 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts:

• A computational model of generalization in phonetic category learning
  Bozena Pajak, Klinton Bicknell, and Roger Levy

Our lab has a talk at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 7 August 2013, in Sofia, Bulgaria:

• A model of generalization in distributional learning of phonetic categories
  Bozena Pajak, Klinton Bicknell, and Roger Levy

Get the pre-print version of the paper here.

Our lab has a talk at 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 9-15, in Atlanta, GA:

• Combining multiple information types in Bayesian word segmentation
  Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy

Get the pre-print version of the paper here.

There will be two talks and a poster affiliated with our lab at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 31 July — 3 August at Humboldt University, Potsdam, Germany:

• Evidence for cognitively controlled saccade targeting in reading [talk]
  Klinton Bicknell, Emily Higgins, Roger Levy, and Keith Rayner
• The Funny Thing About Incongruity: A Computational Model of Humor in Puns [talk]
  Justine Kao, Roger Levy, and Noah D. Goodman
• Modeling the Development of Determiner Productivity in Children’s Early Speech [poster presentation]
  Stephan Meylan, Michael C. Frank, and Roger Levy