Here you may access the talks presented at virtual CUNY 2020. Click on each talk title to be taken to the OSF repository with a video clip of the talk, if available. You may also access the entire CUNY OSF repository directly here.
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Thursday
| Full video and audio transcript available: Thursday, Session 1 Chair: Sol Lago. | ||
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| 8:50 - 9:10 | Opening remarks and orientation to virtual conference | |
| 9:10 - 9:40 | A theory of island semi-accessibility: the case of the Strong/Weak distinction | Whitney Tabor, Sandra Villata and Jon Sprouse |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Syntax guides verb planning in sentence production | Shota Momma, Michael Wilson and Victor Ferreira |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Explaining item-wise variability in Moses illusions | Hanna Muller, Philip Resnik and Colin Phillips |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | ☕️ Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | 🗣 Animate Intruders | Matt Wagers |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Word order and pronominality modulate the SRC/ORC asymmetry in Tagalog RCs | Jed Pizarro-Guevara and Matt Wagers |
| Full video and audio transcript available: Thursday, Session 2 Chair: Mara Breen | ||
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| 2:00 - 2:30 | Asymmetric processing costs in the auditory comprehension of Mandarin and English bilingual sentences | Alice Shen |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Racial identity matters: EEG correlates reflect syntactic expectation based on both speaker identity and language variety in American Englishes | Rachel Elizabeth Weissler and Jonathan Brennan |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Prediction in the language network is sensitive to syntactic structure | Cory Shain, Idan Blank, Marten van Schijndel, William Schuler and Evelina Fedorenko |
| 3:30 - 3:50 | ☕️ 🥨 Coffee & snack break | |
| 3:50 - 4:30 | 🗣 Tracking referents, perspectives and opinions | Elsi Kaiser |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Over-specification and incremental referential processing: an eye-tracking study | Kumiko Fukumura and Maria Nella Carminati |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Short break | |
| 5:15 - 5:45 | Personal pronouns matter: Singular they understood better after explicit introduction | Jennifer Arnold, Heather Mayo and Lisa Dong |
Friday
| Full video and audio transcript available: Friday, Session 3 Chair: Colin Phillips | ||
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| 9:00 - 9:40 | 🗣 If you don't have anything | Hannah Rohde |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | The real-time application of grammatical constraints to prediction: Timecourse evidence from eye tracking | Kate Stone, Elise Oltrogge, Shravan Vasishth and Sol Lago |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Processing coordination ambiguity in context: Eye-tracking evidence from Estonian | Marju Kaps |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | 🗣 Building concepts vs. phrases: Neural basis of composition – where are we today? | Liina Pylkkanen |
| Full video and audio available (transcript forthcoming): Friday, Session 4 Chair: Adrian Staub | ||
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| 2:30 - 3:00 | Proportional semantic pre-activation during sentence comprehension: Evidence from ERPs | Trevor Brothers, Santiago Noriega and Gina Kuperberg |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Rapid syntactic adaptation in SPR: detectable, but only with many participants | Grusha Prasad and Tal Linzen |
| Full video and audio transcript available: Friday, Session 5 Chair: Jesse Snedeker | ||
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| 3:50 - 4:30 | 🗣 Reflections on (some of) the roles of linguistic theory in psycholinguistics: Case studies in presupposition projection | Florian Schwarz |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Conservative meanings with only one set: evidence from verification | Tyler Knowlton, Paul Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda and Jeffrey Lidz |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Short break | |
| 5:15 - 5:45 | Is the Monotonicity Effect due to Covert Negation or Pragmatic Bias? | Fabian Schlotterbeck, Sonia Ramotowska, Leendert Van Maanen and Jakub Szymanik |
| 5:45 - 6:15 | Negation and semantic relatedness in eye-tracking-while-reading | Erika Mayer, Adrian Staub and Brian Dillon |
Saturday
| Full video and audio transcript available: Saturday, Session 6 Chair: Katy Carlson | ||
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| 9:00 - 9:40 | 🗣 Putting the pieces together: The use of grammatical constraints in reading | Patrick Sturt |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution | Andrea Beltrama and Florian Schwarz |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | The role of executive function and theory of mind in pragmatic computations | Sarah Fairchild and Anna Papafragou |
| 10:40 - 11:40 | ☕️ Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Intonation interpretations are talker-sensitive, but not talker specific | Chigusa Kurumada and Andrés Buxó-Lugo |
| Full video and audio transcript available Saturday, Session 7 Chair: Roger Levy | ||
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| 2:00 - 2:20 | 🗣 Announcements | |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Frequency-dependent Regularization in Abstract Syntactic Structures | Zoey Liu and Emily Morgan |
| 2:50 - 3:20 | From speech error to grammaticalization: The case of expletive negation | Yanwei Jin and Jean-Pierre Koenig |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Lexical Effects in Structural Forgetting: Evidence for Experience-Based Accounts and a Neural Network Model | Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell and Edward Gibson |
| Full video and audio transcript available Saturday, Session 8 Chair: Ming Xiang | ||
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| 4:40 - 5:10 | Semantic similarity and temporal contiguity in subject-verb dependency processing | Stephanie Rich and Matt Wagers |
| 5:10 - 5:40 | Syntactically unintegrated parentheticals: Evidence from agreement attraction | Andrew McInnerney and Emily Atkinson |
Asynchronous talks
| Title | Authors |
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| An MEG study of composition and relational structure in minimal phrases | Graham Flick, Osama Abdullah and Liina Pylkkanen |
| Anticipating words during spoken discourse comprehension: A large-scale, pre-registered replication study using brain potentials; Abstract | Mante S. Nieuwland, Yana Arkhipova and Pablo Rodríguez-Gómez |
| What prosody can tell us about linguistic and psychological representations; Abstract | 🗣 Duane Watson |
| A pre-registered large-sample investigation of similarity-based interference in English, German and Russian; Abstract | Daniela Mertzen, Anna Laurinavichyute, Brian Dillon and Shravan Vasishth |