Parsing
William Matchin will talk about "ERP indices of structure building mechanisms".
All welcome.
Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting.
Shota Momma will discuss some very interesting results from his summer research at Hiroshima University in Japan.
"When bees are exempt from getting stung: An ERP investigation on the interaction between lexical and syntactic cues in predictive processing in Japanese."
Next week (Oct 10th): Kate Harrigan.
LSD marked the 1-year anniversary of the Maryland Language Science Center, showcasing many ideas and initiatives launched over the past year.
Words and sentences have parts that combine in patterns, exhibiting the grammar of the language. Phonology is the study of patterns in sound or gesture. Syntax and Semantics involve studying patterns in sentence structure, from the vantages of form and meaning, respectively. The shared aim is a general theory of human grammars, one that allows us to understand speakers' ability to use language and the rapid development of language in every normal child.
Our technology depends on a sophisticated understanding of speech and language.
