Saturday (Jan 13th)

Start End Event Author Affiliation
8:00 9:00 Breakfast đŸ„ and registration    
9:00 9:15 Opening remarks    
9:15 9:40 Relative clauses induce only small island effects: Evidence from Japanese scrambling Maho Takahashi, Grant Goodall UCSD
9:40 10:05 Dependency locality shaped by resource rationality: Evidence from English and Spanish Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell Irvine
10:05 10:30 Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Mandarin Elastic Word Length Skyler Reese, Masoud Jasbi, Emily Morgan Davis
10:30 10:50 Coffee Break ☕    
10:50 11:15 Individual variation in speech adaptation: a role for linguistic diversity? Yuting Gu, Seth Cutler, Chigusa Kurumada, Xin Xie Irvine
11:15 11:40 Investigating ERP Indices of Syntactic Adaptation Tevin Wills Rachel Ostrand, Angela Montiel, Rachel Ryskin Merced
11:40 12:05 High Expectations Enhance Locality Effects: Evidence from Naturalistic Reading Time Corpora Hailin Hao, Himanshu Yadav, Elsi Kaiser USC
12:15 1:00 Poster Session 1    
1:00 2:30 Lunch đŸ„Ș    
2:30 2:55 The interaction of syntactic focus and semantic prediction in comprehension Eleonora Beier, Adrian Zhou, Fernanda Ferreira Davis
2:55 3:20 On the interplay of syntax, verb directedness and individual differences: Exploring the processing of reflexive anaphors with mouse-tracking over the internet Metehan Oğuz, Elsi Kaiser USC
3:20 3:45 “Syntax-Specialized” Attention Heads in Large Language Models are Influenced by Semantics Thomas McGee, Idan Blank UCLA
3:45 4:05 Coffee Break ☕    
4:05 4:50 Poster Session 2    

Sunday (Jan 14th)

Start End Event Author Affiliation
8:15 9:15 Breakfast đŸ„    
9:15 9:40 El Tiny or El Escritorio Tiny? Exploring L2’s Influence on Adjective Placement in Spanish Beverly Cotter, Fernanda Ferreira Davis
9:40 10:05 Perceived interpretability predicts satiability for CNPC islands but not WH islands Ruoqing Yao, Jiayi Lu, Judith Degen UCSC/Stanford
10:05 10:30 Investigating Syntactic Gating during Subject Retrieval with English Ditransitives Matthew Kogan, Matt Wagers UCSC
10:30 10:50 Coffee Break ☕    
10:50 11:35 Poster Session 3    
11:35 12:00 Polarity Asymmetry in Negative Strengthening: Social Consideration Matters Sarang Jeong, Christopher Potts, Judith Degen Stanford
12:00 12:25 If X Made Y Drop ___, Who Did the Dropping?: A Psycholinguistic Study on the Influence of External Causatives When Processing Alternating Unaccusatives Mary Kennedy, Elsi Kaiser USC
12:25 2:00 Lunch đŸ„Ș    
2:00 2:45 Poster Session 4    
2:45 3:05 Coffee Break ☕    
3:05 3:30 4-5 year old children can successfully communicate using ad-hoc referential expressions Veronica Boyce, Ilaria Chen, Bobby Sparks, Malia Perez, Mike Frank Stanford
3:30 3:55 The meaning behind a code-switch Yanting Li, Greg Scontras, Richard Futrell Irvine
3:55 4:00 Closing remarks    

Poster Session 1 (Saturday)

# Title Presenter Affiliation
1 Similarity-Based Interferences in Chinese Classifier-Noun Dependencies Hailin Hao USC
2 Emotion Language Acquisition in Children: An Exploratory Case Study on the Word “Good” Ashvini Varatharaj UCSB
3 Morpheme Positional Constraints and Grammatical Class Irmak Ergin Stanford
4 Influence of Productivity on Priming of Verbal and Nominal Patterns in Arabic Abeer Abbas UCLA
5 Asymmetries in processing differences between subjective and objective information: examining different information types embedded under nominal structures Haley Hsu USC
6 Conditional inferences are derived without delay Ebru Evcen UCSD
7 Predicting the dative alternation — an incremental view Neil Rathi Stanford
8 A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Syntactic Priming Weijie Xu Irvine
9 Evaluating the role of semantic priming and particle choice in the early availability of focus alternatives Christian Muxica UCLA
10 Investigating prominence alignment processing advantages in Korean nominals Nikolas Webster UCSC

Poster Session 2 (Saturday)

# Title Presenter Affiliation
1 Temporal stability and the online assignment of hierarchical prosodic structure Emily Knick UCSC
2 Language models can adapt better to within-clause than across-clause exchange errors Jiaxuan Li Irvine
3 Sublexical ARTifacts: Bottom-Up Interference in a Lexical Category Search Will Clapp Stanford
4 Recovery (
or not) from prediction failure Barbora Hlachova Davis
5 The effects of frequency and predictability on the representation of multi-word phrases in English Zachary Houghton Davis
6 How Do GenZ Users Process Chatbot Memory Lapses? An Eye Tracking Study Marina Zhukova UCSB
7 A computational model for projection inferences in clause-embedding predicates Dingyi Pan UCSD/Stanford
8 Exclusive Disjunction as a Compound Implication Casey Felton Davis

Poster Session 3 (Sunday)

# Title Presenter Affiliation
1 Effects of vowel duration and lexical frequency in perceptual word identification Chelsea Sanker Stanford
2 Processing Implications of Redundancy: The Case of Multi-Word Verbs in English Casey Felton Davis
3 Predictions, Explanations, and Causal Verbs: Children’s Causal Reasoning and Language Salih Ozdemir UCSD
4 Noisy population dynamics lead to efficiently compressed vocabularies Nathaniel Imel Irvine
5 Striking balance: Exploring a neural theory of sensory perception in autism through a probabilistic model of audio-visual speech perception Grace Brown Stanford
6 Production Preferences In The English Spray-Load Alternation: Do Speakers Prioritize Accessibility or Meaning? Emily Goodwin Stanford
7 Exempt reflexive mĂŹnh in Vietnamese: Effects of person features and verb type Linh Pham USC
8 Producing Recursive Possessive Structures: a Speeded Repetition Task Investigating Automaticity in Phrasal Production Thomas Morton UCSD
9 VIDUL: A Tool for Elevating Inclusivity in Psycholinguistics Anirudh Murugesan Davis

Poster Session 4 (Sunday)

# Title Presenter Affiliation
1 Experimental Paradigms Influence Scalar Implicature Estimation Zhuang Qiu Davis
2 Effects of context and proficiency on processing difficulty during L2 reading Chen Liu Merced
3 Bilingual Language Production: Investigating the Independent Components of Cross-language Facilitation and Interference Control Hannah Evans CSU East Bay
4 Reaching for the unknown: sentence planning under message uncertainty and expectation violation Amber Jiang UCSD
5 Can Language Model Surprisal Predict Acceptability and Satiation? Jonathan Merchan Stanford
6 Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production. Karina Tachihara Davis
7 Exploring the Dual Nature of the Mandarin Coverb GEI in Passive and Object-Preposing Constructions Wenjun Ma UCSD
8 Are Informativity-Based Linguistic Predictions Driven by Gender-Stereotypical Knowledge? Hailin Hao USC