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=!).

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.

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.

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.

Skyler Reese virtually presented their research at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2021, titled "Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Cardinal Reference Variability: The Case of English Few, Several, and Many". Their abstract can be found here, and you can view a recording of their presentation here.