LSLT: Zoe Ovans (NACS)
Time:
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location:
Language Science Center (2130 H.J. Patterson)
Zoe Ovans (NACS)
The (Un)surprising Kindergarten Path
Abstract: Like adults, children parse sentences incrementally. Consequently, they often have difficulty revising their initial parse of a sentence when it turns out to be incorrect. Unlike adults, children have more difficulty recovering from mis-analysis (this is often called the "Kindergarten path effect"). In this talk, I will explore whether differences in child-directed vs. adult-directed speech (as measured by surprisal values at each word in garden path sentences) could help explain the KPE.
Lunch served at 12:15 PM!
