Achievement

A team of students has been combining linguistic, psychological, and quantitative skills to investigate how linguistic information is encoded and accessed in memory, using the interpretation of pronouns as a model system. Dave Kush, Shevaun Lewis, Dan Parker, and Sol Lago have tested comprehenders’ use of content-addressable vs. structure-guided access mechanisms. Predictions for this work are informed by Parker’s computational modeling studies. Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow have used novel quantitative tools to investigate whether pronoun interpretation reactivates word form information in addition to word meaning information. Their results received the best student paper award at the leading psycholinguistics conference in 2011.