New paper out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! We study real-time sentence processing in the Oaxacan language Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, and we find new evidence for the ways people tune their incremental comprehension processes to the patterns of their language.

Delayed structural prediction for relative clauses: A new argument for learning to parse from Santiago Laxopa Zapotec

Comprehenders in many of the world’s languages exhibit a preference or a greater ease in comprehending transitive relative clauses (RCs) when associat…

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This paper with Sasha Mayn and Vera Demberg was the main project of my post-doc at @lst.uni-saarland.de! Really proud of it, and happy to have it out in @openmindjournal.bsky.social. Headline: A time-conserving ACT-R agent does a nice job explaining low implicature rates in communication games.

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Sad to be missing AMLaP, home with some surprise COVID, but very thankful to my co-author Laura Pissani for going solo on our Saturday talk on diffusion models for the Maze task! For anyone else stuck at home, let me tell you here about what we've learned by modeling Maze RTs as decision-making.

Overjoyed to share that this coming fall, I'll be joining UCLA Linguistics as an assistant professor of psycholinguistics!

a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1... brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social

What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior

In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable...

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Gorgeous example of a preposition pruning error in what would have already been a confusing and wonderful RC. (Context: www.nytimes.com/athletic/572...)

∃x & news(x) & |x| = 2: (1) Next Friday, Dec 1, I'm defending my dissertation (!) (2) In Jan, I will be moving to Germany (!) to join Vera Demberg's lab at Saarland as a post-doc, studying (& modeling) individual differences in pragmatic processing Couldn't be more excited!