Human Sentence Processing Conference!

There was a STRONG UofT presence at the Human Sentence Processing Conference! 

Talks included: 

• "Sensitivity to prior context in referring expressions across the lifespan" from Abigayle Shekleton (University of Iowa), Daphna Heller (Faculty),  and Si On Yoo (University of Iowa)

• "Does real-time inferencing draw on the same resources as real-time perspective taking? An individual differences approach" from  Sonny R. Wang (Graduate Student) and Craig G. Chambers (Faculty)

• "Island-insensitivity in L2 Production" from Dave Kush (Faculty) and Anne Dahl (National Taipei University of Technology)

Cannot leave out the amazing posters that were presented: 

• "Active Cataphor Resolution Skips Some Positions" by Dave Kush (Faculty) and Brian Dillion (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

• "The icing on the cake. Or is it frosting? How group membership affects children's lexical choices"  by Thomas St. Pierre (Postdoctoral Fellow), Jiffa Jaffan (Graduate Student), Ethan Antidormi (McMaster University), Craig G. Chambers (Faculty) and Elizabeth K Johnson (Faculty)

• "What can an LSTM Language Model LEarn about Filler-Gap dependencies in Norwegian?" by Anastasia Kobzeva (National Taipei University of Technology), Suhas Arehalli (John Hopkins University), Tal Linzen (New York University) and Dave Kush (Faculty) 

• "Processing cataphors: mismatch effects reflect syntactic prediction"  by Anna Giskes (National Taipei University of Technology) and Dave Kush (Faculty) 

It is awesome to see so many UofT linguists in one place!