Jan Chromý

@janchromy.bsky.social

psycholinguist, based in Prague, head of the ERCEL Lab (https://ercel.ff.cuni.cz/)

New paper out in Cognitive Science! We analyzed various predictors of local ambiguity resolution on a heterogeneous set of garden-path sentences, namely surprisal, frequency, plausibility and cloze scores (measuring the likelihood of misanalysis of the ambiguous region). 1/2

Cloze, Frequency, Surprisal, or Plausibility? A Comparative Analysis of Predictors for Local Ambiguity Resolution

This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden-path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility....

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👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

Doctoral Research Fellow (271220) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral Research Fellow (271220), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025

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Mass shooting happened at our faculty in Prague today. I was in the building. I locked myself in the office and I was lucky the attacker was on the fourth floor and me on the first. We were later escorted outside by the police and we spent about three hours under police supervision. 1/2