Dave Kush at Fishfeed (1.12.2020)

This Tuesday, 1st December the Christmas season officially begins and FishFeed will celebrate with a hybrid talk by Prof. Dave Kush from NTNU, who will be here in person to give a talk in B1005 at 1415, our usual FishFeed time (14.15-16.00). We have  submitted all the forms to make this hybrid. Because the number of  of people in the room is limited to 20, we ask those wishing to attend in person to register here. There will, of course, be the option to follow along via zoom. 

The title and abstract of the talk are provided below.

 

Title: What to expect when you’re expecting (a subject)

Abstract: Understanding a sentence in real time requires comprehenders to incrementally build linguistic representations from incomplete and ambiguous input. It is an open debate how much the process of constructing these representations is guided by (implicit) expectations the comprehender has about how the sentence will continue. Two persistent questions are (i) how much (syntactic) structure comprehenders build in advance of confirmatory bottom-up, and (ii) how grammatical knowledge influences what gets pre-emptively built. In this talk I’ll present results from a series of experiments on the processing of cataphoric pronouns that bears on these questions. Time permitting, I may also talk about the role of expectations in the processing of relative clauses, too.