Ongoing projects in the HLP Lab

Below you'll find an incomplete, but relatively up to date list of ongoing projects in the HLP lab. Some projects are at least partially accessible to the public, but many project pages are only accessible to HLP lab members because they contain either copyrighted or otherwise sensitive information (we use these pages as a lab log book). Nevertheless we hope that the list of topics below gives you and idea of what's going on in the lab. Thanks for your understanding.

Feedback is, of course, welcome! Also, [http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/people/ let us know] if you're interested to join a project or to visit the lab.

I've also compiled a [wiki:/GoodResearchIdeas list of some good ideas] that I think would make nice experiments (internal).

1. Language Production

• [wiki:/AmbiguityAvoidance Ambiguity Avoidance] (Amanda Perlman,Jackie Gutman, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/JapaneseWordOrder Word order and fluency in Japanese] (Hiroko Yamashita, Tadahisa Kondo, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/FieldProduction Language production in Yucatec Mayan] (Elisabeth Norcliffe, Katrina Housel, Florian Jaeger, Alice Lemieux, Lindsay Butler)

• [wiki:/PhonPriming Phonological Similarity and Identity in Sentence Production] (Katrina Housel, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/PhoneticReduction Redundancy and strategic lengthening effects on phonetic reduction] (Celeste Kidd, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/Contraction Redundancy and Availability-based effects on morpho-syntactic contraction] (Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/SyntacticReduction Redundancy and syntactic reduction] (Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/PlanningBeyondClause Production planning beyond the clause] (Carlos Gomez Gallo, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/CoherenceRelationMarkers Marking of coherence relations between clauses] (Hannah Rohde, Benjamin Anibel, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/ConstantEntropyChinese Constant Entropy: Chinese and Chinese English] (Ting Qian)

2. Language Comprehension

• [wiki:/ComprehensionPriming Comprehension priming] (David Race, Mike Tanenhaus, Mary Hare)

• [wiki:/ChineseClassifiers Expectation-based Processing: Chinese Classifiers] (Natalie Klein, Renjie Li)

• [wiki:/SyntacticAdaptation Adaptation in Sentence Comprehension and Production] (Alex Fine, Florian Jaeger)

3. Cue combination in probability estimation

• [wiki:/CueBasedPhoneticReduction What are the cues that speakers use to determine the probability of a word?] (Matt Post, Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/CueBasedSyntacticReduction What are the cues that speakers use to determine the probability of syntactic structures?] (Roger Levy, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/CueBasedComprehension Bayes independent feature models to investigate cue-based probability estimation in sentence comprehension] (John Kraemer, Ted Gibson, Florian Jaeger)

4. Language acquisition

• [wiki:/ProcessingAcquisition Processing effects on language acquisition] (Masha Fedzechkina, Alison Austin, Austin Frank)

• [wiki:/ProcessingCaseMarking Processing constraints on the acquisition of case marking] (Masha Fedzechkina, Florian Jaeger, Elissa Newport)

• [wiki:/WWWLanguageAcquisition Studying language acquisition on the WWW]

5. Priming

• [wiki:/ComprehensionPriming Comprehension priming] (David Race, Mike Tanenhaus, Mary Hare)

• [wiki:/SuprisalPriming Surprisal-sensitivity of syntactic priming] (Neal Snider)

6. Methodological studies

• [wiki:/FieldProduction Feasibility of studying language production in the field] (Elisabeth Norcliffe, Florian Jaeger)

• [wiki:/NgramUsability Usability of web-based probability estimates for language research] (Benjamin Van Durme, Austin Frank)

• [wiki:/VisualWorldStatistics Statistical analysis of visual world data] (Mike Tanenhaus, Austin Frank, Anne Pier Salverda, Mike Mashalov)

Projects in preparation

• [wiki:/JapaneseAccusative Japanese Accusative Marker Ellipsis] (Andrew Watts)

• [wiki:/SpanishDoubleClitic Deletion of optional double clitic in South American Spanish] (Carlos Gomez Gallo, Florian Jaeger)

Collaborations with undergraduates

• [wiki:/XeroxIdeas Ideas for Xerox fellowship]

Suggested projects

• [wiki:/RunTheWholeThing Run The Whole Thing] (Anyone!)