Sprocet hosts talks by visiting sentence processing researchers, provides a venue for cross-lab discussions, and organizes occasional cross-lab research presentation meetings. If you’re interested in organizing an event, please post to the list or contact Masaya Yoshida.
Spring 2017
06/15/18: Chicago-area Psycholinguistics Meeting (2:00-4:00; Feinberg School of Medicine, Ward 5-230). Come hear flash talks presented by researchers from UICU, University of and Northwestern. To RSVP, and/or volunteer for a flash talk, please complete this form by May 31st. Drinks and socializing downtown to follow (venue tbd).
Archived Events
Fall 2017
11/20/17: SPROCET flash talks (4:00-6:00; Cresap 101): Come join us as we get together to hear about what each other have been up to since last March. This event will feature flash talks from various labs in the Northwestern sentence processing community.
Winter 2017
03/03/17: Chicago-area Sentence Processing Meeting with University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago (location TBA)
Spring 2016
04/06/16: Incrementality in parsing & production (Masaya & Laurel)
04/20/16: Paper discussion led by Laurel
05/18/16: Effects of antecedent complexity on the processing of sluicing constructions (Kat Hall)
06/01/16: Agreement Attraction in NP Ellipsis (Nayoun Kim)
Winter 2016
01/06/16 — Individual differences in code switching (Matt Goldrick)
02/17/16 – Sentence processing in aphasia (Jennifer Mack)
03/10/16 – How awful are verb-final languages for production and comprehension? (Shota Momma)
03/16/16: CUNY post-mortem
Fall 2015
09/30/15: Planning meeting for upcoming Sentence Fest
10/21/15: Determining gradient and categorical structure in language (Laurel Brehm)
11/11/15: Pronoun resolution in eye-tracking data (Kat Hall)
12/02/15: Eyetracking in reading (Klinton Bicknell)
Spring 2015
04/01/15: CUNY 2015 postmortem discussion
04/15/15: Paper discussion (Grillo & Costa 2014)
05/06/15: Ann Burchfield’s defense!
05/20/15: Experiment ideas with Masaya, Matt, and Kat
Winter 2015
01/21/15: LSA 2015 postmortem discussion (led by Masaya & Mike)
02/04/15: Paper discussion (led by Matt)
02/18/15: Discussion about syntactic prediction (led by Masaya)
03/04/15: CUNY Practice (Laurel)
Fall 2014
10/01/14: AMLaP 2014 postmortem discussion (led by Masaya, Klinton, and Lauren)
10/14/14: Continuous and discrete aspects of sentence processing (Matt Goldrick)
11/05/14: Previously triggered dependency search overrides local attachment effects (Lauren Ackerman)
11/19/14: A continuous approach to conceptual number (Laurel Brehm)
12/03/14: Morphology-syntax interactions in gapping antecedent retrieval (Michael Frazier)