Linguistics
Title: Infants can use phrasal prosody as a cue to learn syntax and word meanings
Title: Using vector space models to examine the role of word relations in processing
Title: Structural and discourse factors in retrieval: what we learn from sluicing
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Title: A parametric study of hierarchical structure building in fMRI and MEG
Maryland language scientists are used to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration - but rarely sit down to discuss language science with psychoanalysts and children’s book authors. At the end of April, Colin Phillips did just that as part of a prestigious roundtable on 'The Mind of a Child' at the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation in New York.
Graduate student Lara Ehrenhofer (LING) will present a project that she’ll be running this summer using ERPs to probe incremental interpretation and prediction across different word orders.
Title: Mind wandering as spontaneous thought: A dynamic framework
Title: Learning to see late in childhood