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LEC # TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS
1
  • Course Overview
  • Experimental Methods: Self-paced Reading, Eye-tracking, Event-related Potentials, On-line Lexicaldecision, Cross-modal Priming
  • Modularity in Sentence Comprehension
  • One Theory of Resource Use in Sentence Comprehension: The Dependency Locality Theory
2
  • Ambiguity Resolution
  • Structural Theories of Ambiguity Resolution: The Garden-path Theory
  • Lexical Theories of Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Comprehension
  • Reanalysis in Sentence Comprehension
  • Serial vs. Ranked Parallel Parsing
3
  • Resources and Sentence Complexity
  • The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences
  • Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing
  • Parsing Strategies
  • Shift-reduce Parsing
  • Chart Parsing
  • Assignment 1 Due: Short Review Paper Number 1
4
  • Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension
5
  • The Relationship Between the Frequency and the Complexity of a Syntactic Structure
  • Cross-linguistic Parsing Preference Differences
  • Assignment 2 Due: Short Review Paper Number 2
  • Assignment 3 Handed Out
6
  • Individual Differences in Sentence Comprehension
  • Working Memory Capacity and Sentence Comprehension
7
  • Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Sentence Comprehension
  • Assignment 3 Due
8
  • Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension
9
  • Discourse Coherence
  • Assignment 4 Due: Short Review Paper Number 3
10
  • Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension
11
  • Sentence Production
12
  • The Psychological Reality of Empty Categories
  • Final Paper Due