Psycholinguistics workshop
Saturday, April 1, 2006

• Workshop theme: Ambiguity
  The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different areas of psycholinguistics
  whose research sheds light on the effects and implications of ambiguity in language production
  and comprehension. The hope is that the workshop will reach across and into multiple subfields in
  order to shed light on what general conclusions can be reached regarding this pervasive trait of
  human language.

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  Click here for abstracts.

• Speakers
  • Ferreira, Vic (UC San Diego) - When, why, and how speakers do (and don't) avoid ambiguity
  • Fodor, Janet Dean (The City University of New York) - Disambiguation by Silent Prosody
  • Frazier, Lyn (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) - Ambiguity resolution and dynamic interpretation
  • MacDonald, Maryellen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)- The Production Basis of Ambiguity Comprehension
  • Magnuson, Jim (University of Connecticut) - Bottom-up and top-down constraints and ambiguity
  • Trueswell, John (University of Pennsylvania) - Neural underpinnings of cognitive control: Implications for the development of ambiguity resolution abilities