The 63rd Language Lunch Date: 2018-06-21 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The Effects of Second Language Processing on Comprehension Coreference Preferences Carine,Abraham; carine.abraham@gmail.com In discourse, processing ambiguous pronouns is often instantaneous for adult native speakers. Recently, studies have found effects of verbal aspect, specifically whether events are completed or ongoing (perfective vs imperfective), on pronoun disambiguationContinue reading The 63rd Language Lunch

The 63rd Language Lunch Date: 2018-06-21 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The Effects of Second Language Processing on Comprehension Coreference Preferences Carine Abraham; c.abraham@ed.ac.uk In discourse, processing ambiguous pronouns is often instantaneous for adult native speakers. Recently, studies have found effects of verbal aspect, specifically whether events are completed or ongoing (perfective vs imperfective), on pronounContinue reading The 63rd Language Lunch

The 61st Language Lunch Date: 2018-02-15 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Faheem: Explaining URLs to people using a Slack bot Kholoud,Althobaiti; s1679092@sms.ed.ac.uk Online safety regularly depends on users’ ability to know either where a URL is likely to lead or identify when they are on a site other than they expect. Unfortunately, the combination of lowContinue reading The 61st Language Lunch

The 60th Language Lunch Date: 2017-12-07 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The evolution of monotonicity in the semantics of gradable adjectives Fausto Carcassi; s1569804@sms.ed.ac.uk Gradable adjectives like tall can be used in two ways: measure (e.g. John is 180cm tall) and bare (e.g. John is tall). In bare uses the adjective says that the subject fallsContinue reading The 60th Language Lunch

The 59th Language Lunch Date: 2017-10-19 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum First language attrition at the interface among Chinese-English late bilingual speakers Wenjia,Cai; s1342561@sms.ed.ac.uk The current study aims to investigate L1 syntactic attrition effects among Chinese (mandarin)- English late bilinguals, with different patterns of language use and lengths of residence during online processing. Previous research hasContinue reading The 59th Language Lunch

The 58th Language Lunch Date: 2017-06-22 Location: MF2 Informatics Forum The influence of temporal context on the production of temporal morphology in L2 speakers of English Qingyuan,Gardner; s1360390@sms.ed.ac.uk English temporal morphology is used to express tense (temporal location of events in relation to the time of speech). Mandarin does not have such a temporal systemContinue reading The 58th Language Lunch

The 56th Language Lunch Date: 2017-02-16 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Individual differences in perspective taking: inhibition and switching across the lifespan Madeleine,Long; None; None Work on the role of executive functions (EF) in regulating communicative perspective taking has primarily focused on inhibitory control in younger adults, the results of which are mixed. Less consideration hasContinue reading The 56th Language Lunch

The 55th Language Lunch Date: 2016-12-01 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The space of possible grammars revisited Patrik,Austin; Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki; None How linguistic variation is limited is one of the basic questions of syntactic theory. The prevalent paradigms concerning the amplitude of possibility were delineated in the 20th century when ChomskyContinue reading The 55th Language Lunch

The 54th Language Lunch Date: 2016-10-20 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Variation of adjective placement in complex noun phrases in Italian Kristina,Gulordava; None; None Romance languages show a substantial degree of variation in prenominal versus postnominal adjective placement. In particular, the semantic differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives has been studied extensively, both in theoretical andContinue reading The 54th Language Lunch

The 53rd Language Lunch Date: 2016-06-16 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Document Embeddings with Context Sampling Stefanos,Angelidis; None; None The Paragraph Vector model has been recently proposed as a method for learning low-dimensional representations of multi-sentence documents. As with most embedding models, it relies on a proximity context to associate co-occurring words, while jointly learning embeddingsContinue reading The 53rd Language Lunch