Abstract for Colin Phillips's talk

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Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)
October 11, 2005 (Tuesday)
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM; Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center

In this talk I will discuss a series of studies that explore the use of predictive mechanisms in sentence processing, how these mechanisms help comprehenders to achieve rapid, accurate parsing, and what the limits of these mechanisms are. I will draw on a combination of behavioral and electrophysiological findings on English, Japanese, Chinese, Basque, and Hindi.