In fall 2025, psycholinguistics lab meetings are held Tuesdays at 9.30am in the Linguistics Conference Room.
Fall 2025 meeting schedule
| Aug 26 | Organizational meeting |
| Sept 2 | Katie Kennedy: Evidence of Generative Syntax in Large Language Models |
| Sept 9 | Anna Runova: Interaction of cross-linguistic parallel activation, working memory demands, and language fluency |
| Sept 16 | Hailin Hao: Locality Effects Cancel Expectation-driven Facilitation – Evidence from Mandarin Classifier-Noun Dependencies |
| Sept 23 | Emma Kealey: Investigating the strength of spreading activation from grammatical gender |
| Sept 30 | Metehan Oguz: Processing retrospective and prospective NPI licensing dependencies |
| Oct 7 | Po-Hsuan Huang: Speaker-oriented versus listener-oriented production: The case of classifier specificity in Taiwan Mandarin and Chinese Mandarin |
| Oct 14 | JK Subramony: Processing of Implicit Causality Verbs |
| Oct 21 | Haley Hsu: Interactions between detection of different error types |
| Oct 28 | Yue Chen: Animacy, Empathy Locus, and Logophoricity: An Individual-Differences Analysis of Reflexive Pronoun Resolution in Mandarin Chinese |
| Nov 4 | Linh Pham: The Strength of Dependency: A Probabilistic Account of Similarity-Based Interference in Sentence Processing |
| Nov 11 | Veterans Day / university holiday (no lab meeting) |
| Nov 18 | Esra Eldem-Tunc: Resolution and processing of null pronouns in bilinguals |
| Nov 25 | Natsumi Taniguchi: Effects of Predictability on Tone-Melody Correspondence |
| Dec 2 | Muxuan He: All roads lead to Rome: (A)typicality inferences and why people make them |
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Spring 2025 meeting schedule
| Jan 14 | Organizational meeting |
| Jan 21 | Kangsan Noh (Korea University), Sanghoun Song (Korea University) and Eunjeong Oh (Sangmyung University): Questioning the Linguistic Abilities of Large Language Models: A Case Study of Binding in Korean |
| Jan 28 | Jason Rothman (University of Lancaster, UK): Systematicity and Individual Differences in Heritage Language Bilingualism |
| Feb 4 | Journal club |
| Feb 11 | Elsi Kaiser: A day in the life of a reviewer: What criteria are conference and journal reviewers rating your work on? |
| Feb 18 | Haley Hsu: Consulting other researchers: A collection of research experiences and insights |
| Feb 25 | Linh Pham: Transfer of island insensitivity: How L1 Vietnamese L2 English learners process filler-gap dependencies in English |
| Mar 4 | Anna Runova: Realization of gender-marking vowels in heritage Russian: Preliminary evidence from speech production and perception |
| Mar 11 | Zoey Lyu: Acoustic cues facilitate the acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies in sequences of object transformation |
| Mar 25 | Open House event! |
| April 1 | Esra Eldem Tunç: Animacy Effects in Agreement Attraction in Turkish |
| April 8 | Muxuan He: Question-under-Discussion and Informativity |
| April 15 | Hailin Hao: Contextualizing Uniform Information Density (UID) |
| April 22 | Katie Kennedy: Deep Hierarchical Structures in LLMs |
| April 28 | Metehan Oguz: Online processing of non-local reflexives in Turkish |
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Fall 2024 meeting schedule
| Aug 26 | Practice talks for AMLaP (Metehan Oguz & Zuzanna Fuchs: Using Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR) to investigate the processing of agreement errors) and X-PPL (Linh Pham & Elsi Kaiser: Constructing dependencies with optional elements: Insights from Vietnamese) |
| Sep 3 | organizational meeting |
| Sep 10 | Haley Hsu & Elsi Kaiser: What linguistic illusions can tell us about the interplay of attention and semantic representations |
| Sep 24 | Sandy LaTourrette (USC Psychology): Staying in the moment: When does sentence context benefit word learning? |
| Oct 1 | Hailin Hao: Looking forward and looking backward: Processing classifier-noun dependencies in Mandarin Chinese |
| Oct 8 | Katie Kennedy: More efficiently training large language models via linguistic injection |
| Oct 15 | Darby Grachek: A link between phonology and the lexicon: Morphophonological exceptionality and decomposition in English stress shift |
| Oct 22 | Deniz Rudin: Academic websites |
| Oct 29 | Elena Savinova (Radboud University, Netherlands): Subjective language in news texts and its effect on reader judgements |
| Nov 5 | Muxuan He: Hit us hard and soft: Modelling prior revision and prior update |
| Nov 12 | Linh Pham: Effects of island constraints in second language processing |
| Nov 19 | Anna Runova: Perception and production of gender-marking vowels in heritage Russian |
| Nov 26 | Esra Eldem: Inhibitory interference in optional number agreement in Turkish |
| Dec 3 | Metehan Oguz: Effects of locality and semantic role in the interpretation of Turkish reflexives |
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Spring 2024 meeting schedule
| Jan 9 | Practice talks for CAMP (CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics) |
| Jan 16 | organizational meeting |
| Jan 30 | Zuzanna Fuchs & Travis Major: Investigating noun class and noun category via noun similarity judgements in Lubukusu |
| Feb 6 | Haley Hsu: Prolific overview: Insights from the participant’s perspective for online human-subjects research |
| Feb 20 | Hailin Hao: Naturalistic Reading Time Data Support Information Locality |
| Feb 27 | Linh Pham: Constructing dependencies between wh-words and Q-particles in in-situ languages: The case of Vietnamese questions |
| March 5 | Esra Eldem: Interpretation of Anaphors under VP Ellipsis by Heritage Turkish Speakers |
| March 19 | Open House event! |
| April 2 | Muxuan He: Can the pragmatic nature of negation be learned by big data (without social interactions)? |
| April 9 | Helen Lu: The role of language experience in statistical learning: Insights from infant and adult learners |
| April 16 | Haley Hsu: Moses illusions: Does the presence of other errors facilitate catching Moses illusions? |
| April 23 | Mete Oguz: Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish |
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Fall 2023 meeting schedule:
| Aug 22 | AMLAP practice talks (Muxuan He, Metehan Oguz) |
| Aug 29 | Steven Foley: Individual variation in processing cataphoric pronouns |
| Sep 5 | Elsi Kaiser: An update on current IRB procedures and regulations |
| Sep 26 | Metehan Oguz: Mousetracking on the internet with PCIbex |
| Oct 5 | Zoey Lyu: A longitudinal study of infants’ word segmentation: Statistical cues vs. stress cues |
| Oct 17 | Aria Adli (University of Cologne): Syntax, cognition and aging |
| Oct 31 | Hailin Hao: Similarity-based interference in Chinese classifier-noun dependencies |
| Nov 7 | Muxuan He: More information about informativity |
| Nov 13 | Dept colloquium: Matt Wagers (UCSC): (Re-)encoding interference: When do two DPs interact in sentence processing, and how does their similarity relationship affect that interaction? |
| Nov 14 | Esra Eldem: Interpretation of anaphora under VP ellipsis by Heritage Turkish speakers |
| Nov 21 | Linh Pham: Dependent constructions of wh-phrases and Q-particles in in-situ languages: The case of Vietnamese questions |