Look Who’s Talking: Stanford Linguists at HSP

The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2024) took place on May 16-18, 2024 at the University of Michigan. Several department members and alumni presented a talk or poster:

• Ariel Chan, Shoichi Iwasaki, Judith Kroll: “At What Cost? Comprehension of Habitual Code-Switching Modulated by Language Experience and Cultural Identity” (poster)
• Cory Shain, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell, Roger Levy (Ph.D. ’05): “Are word predictability effects really linear? A critical reanalysis of key evidence” (talk)
• Hailin Hao, Yang Yang, Michael Hahn (Ph.D. ’22): “Information Locality in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese” (poster)
• Jennifer Arnold (Ph.D. ’98): “Learning discourse patterns through exposure: Mixed input helps identify informative categories” (poster)
• Subha Nawer Pushpita, Roger Levy: “Expectation-based comprehension of linguistic input: facilitation from visual context” (poster)
• Thomas Clark, Edward Gibson, Roger Levy: “Probing large language models for implicit learning of aphasia types” (poster)
• Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell (B.A. ’10, M.A. ’12): “Dependency length shaped by strategic memory allocation: A corpus study in 11 languages” and “A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming” (poster)
• Yanting Li, Greg Scontras, Richard Futrell: “The meaning behind a code-switch” (poster)