| Lec # | Topics | Key DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Course Overview Experimental methods: self-paced reading, eye-tracking, event-related potentials, on-line lexical decision, cross-modal priming, brain scanning Modularity in Sentence Comprehension Lexical and structural theories of ambiguity resolution in sentence comprehension The effects of plausibility, context and lexical frequency in on-line processing | |
| 2 | Resources and Sentence Complexity The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences The Dependency Locality Theory | Short review paper 1 due |
| 3 | Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko | |
| 4 | Resources and Ambiguity Resolution The Serial / Parallel Question | |
| 5 | Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution | Short review paper 2 due |
| 6 | Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing Parsing Strategies Shift-reduce Parsing | |
| 7 | Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension | |
| 8 | Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence Comprehension | Short paper 3 due |
| 9 | Representational Issues in Syntax: Behavioral evidence for the existence of empty categories Behavioral Evidence that English is Context-free | |
| 10 | Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension | Short paper 4 due |
| 11 | Discourse Coherence Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf | |
| 12 | Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension | Final paper due three days after lecture 12 |