Stanford linguists at HSP 2026

The 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2026) was held on March 26-28, 2026 at MIT. The conference featured several Stanford linguists:

• Veronica Boyce, Alvin Tan, Jess Mankewitz, Fiona Feng, Benji Fernandez, Ryder Fried, Ben Prystawski, Michael Frank, and Robert Hawkins: "Refbank: an open repository of iterated reference games" (poster)
• Ryan Buggy, Stephanie Cho, Cory Shain, Adrian Staub: "Predictability Effects in Natural Reading are Logarithmic, Not Linear: Evidence from an Eye-Movement Replication of Brothers and Kuperberg (2021)" (poster)
• Stephanie Cho, Cory Shain: "Preactivation and Probabilistic Inference Coexist during Sentence Comprehension" (poster)
• Emily Goodwin, Beth Levin, Emily Morgan: “How do speakers learn verb biases from realistically complex data?" (poster)
• Xiaohan Yang, Jiayi Lu (Ph.D. ’24): "Island Satiates without Change in Backgroundedness" (poster)
• Cory Shain, Evelina Fedorenko: "A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of over 1,000 human brains doing arbitrary tasks" (talk)
• Erxiao Wang, Ekaterina S. Ivshina, Yuhan Zhang, Cory Shain: "Sentence Processing is Surprisingly Robust to Verbatim Repetition" (talk)
• Yuhan Zhang, Advay Aravind, Cyn Fang, Edward Gibson, Cory Shain: "Human-like self-embedding difficulty without human-like memory constraints" (poster)