Computational Psycholinguistics Lab

Our lab will have nine oral and poster presentations at the Conference on Architectures & Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015, 3-5 September in Valletta, Malta:

• Compositional and holistic representation in multiword expression.
  Bushong, W., Morgan, E., Yen, M. & Levy, R.
  
• The rules of statistics make no exception for reading research: False positive rates in eyetracking studies of reading behavior.
  von der Malsburg, T., & Angele, B.
• The impact of reading modality on sentence comprehension.
  von der Malsburg, T., Vasishth, S., & Levy, R.
• The influence of foreshadowing metaphors in a crime story by Ian Fleming.
  von der Malsburg, T., Joseph, H., Troscianko, E., Kukkonen, K., & Nation, K.
• Resolving quantity and informativeness implicature in indefinite reference.
  Poppels, T. & Levy, R.
• Structure-sensitive noise inference: Comprehenders expect exchange errors.
  Poppels, T. & Levy, R.
• Generative and item-specific knowledge jointly determine language structure. Morgan, E. & Levy, R.
• Productive knowledge and direct experience trade off gradiently and rationally in processing binomial expressions. Morgan, E. & Levy, R.
• If you want a quick hug, make it count: How grammar affects estimated event durations. Wittenberg, E. & Levy, R.

Please join us in congratulating our newly arrived postdoc Eva Wittenberg! Eva just won a postdoctoral fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for 19 months! Congratulations, Eva!

Our lab will have a talk at the 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting, 23-25 July 2015, in Pasadena, California:

• Modeling idiosyncratic preferences: How generative knowledge and expression frequency jointly determine language structure
  Emily Morgan and Roger Levy

Our lab will have two presentations at Experimental Pragmatics 2015, 16-18 July 2015, in Chicago, Illinois:

• Resolving Quantity and Informativeness implicature in indefinite reference
  Till Poppels and Roger Levy
  
• Pragmatic coordination on context via definite reference
  Larry Muhlstein, Christopher Potts, Michael C. Frank, and Roger Levy
  

Our lab had three presentations at The 28th Annual Meeting CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 19-21 March 2015, at the University of Southern California:

• How presentation modality influences reading comprehension
  Titus von der Malsburg, Shravan Vasishth, Paul Metzner, and Roger Levy
  
• Comprehenders infer interaction between meaning intent and grammatical probability
  Mark Myslín and Roger Levy
  
• Not when — but how, and what? (Invited presentation)
  Roger Levy

Please join us in congratulating our most recently minted Ph.D., Gabriel Doyle! Gabriel defended his dissertation, Acquiring latent linguistic structure using computational models, earlier this month, and has taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University Department of Psychology, working with Michael C. Frank and other rising stars in the cognitive science of language.