Emily Morgan was awarded a three-year NSF grant on "Generalization versus item-specificity in language processing and change". The project will investigate how speakers of a language use both the ability to generalize and their knowledge of specific previously-encountered items. For example, speakers know that the past tense of a novel verb glorp is glorped but the past tense of run is the irregular ran. But the relationship between these two systems remains a subject of intense debate.

Emily Morgan gave a talk in the Virtual Psycholinguistics Form about her work on the tradeoff between reliance on generative and item-specific knowledge in multiword expression processing. You can watch the a recording of the talk here (password: Yt9#fQ=!).

The lab had multiple papers accepted for publication and presentation at CogSci 2024!

• Nicole Dodd, Fernanda Ferreira and Emily Morgan will be presenting their work on "Noisy-Channel Processing in Standard Arabic Relative Clauses," in collaboration with Fatima Boush and Tommi Leung from the UAE University

Nicole Dodd and Emily Morgan will be presenting their recent work, in conjunction with Fernanda Ferreira in Psychology, at the Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2024. Their poster is titled, "Eye-Tracking Measures of Processing Difficulty in Standard Arabic." You can view the poster and abstract here!

Emily Morgan was invited to give a plenary talk at SCiL 2023 this June! Her presentation was on "Generative and item-specific knowledge in multiword expression processing." 

Emily Morgan taught a course at this summer's LSA Summer Institute on "Computational models of generalization and item-specificity," in conjunction with Masoud Jasbi. Click here to read the course description.

Zach Houghton and Emily Morgan had a short paper accepted for publication and presentation at CogSci 2023. The title of their paper is, "Does Predictability Drive the Holistic Storage of Compound Nouns?"

Emily Morgan will be presenting her recent work, in conjunction with Roger Levy, at Human Sentence Processing 2023. Their poster is titled, "Generative knowledge and item-specific knowledge trade off as a function of frequency in multiword expression processing."

Nicole was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation in support of her research on Arabic sentence processing. This money will support payments for experimental participants, one month of field research in the United Arab Emirates, and travel to a domestic conference to present her findings.

Nicole Dodd will again be presenting her work on "Expectations and Noisy-Channel Processing in Relative Clauses in Standard Arabic" at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022, which will take place September 7-9th.

Nicole Dodd and Emily Morgan had a short paper on their recent work in Arabic sentence processing accepted for publication and presentation at this year's Annual Conference for the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Their full publication can be found here.

Skyler Reese had an abstract accepted at the California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 2022 annual meeting, to take place on May 6th. They will present their Bayesian quantifiers research in a flash talk. Their poster slides can be found here.

Skyler Reese's research was recently accepted for presentation at the Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference from May 18th-20th. Their poster is titled "Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Reference Variability: The Case of Few, Several, and Many." Their abstract can be viewed here.

The Morgan Computational Psycholinguistics Lab will be well represented at the upcoming Human Sentence Processing (HSP) conference on March 24th-26th!

Emily Morgan, in collaboration with Prem Devanbu and other cross-campus collaborators, recently received a three-year NSF grant worth $1.4 million to study how humans process programming languages. To quote Devanbu, "When you write a program, it has two audiences.