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, let us know if you're interested to join a project or to visit the lab.

I've also compiled a list of some good ideas that I think would make nice experiments (internal).

1. Language Production

• Japanese Accusative Marker Ellipsis (Chigusa Kurumada, Florian Jaeger, Andrew Watts)

• Similarity in lexical and sentence production (Maureen Gillespie, Peter Graff, Florian Jaeger)

• Ambiguity Avoidance (Amanda Perlman, Jackie Gutman, Florian Jaeger)

• Word order and fluency in Japanese (Hiroko Yamashita, Tadahisa Kondo, Florian Jaeger)

• Language production in Yucatec Mayan (Elisabeth Norcliffe, Katrina Furth, Florian Jaeger, Alice Lemieux, Lindsay Butler)

• Phonological Similarity and Identity in Sentence Production (Katrina Furth, Caitlin Hilliard, Florian Jaeger)

• Redundancy and strategic lengthening effects on phonetic reduction (Matt Post, Florian Jaeger)

• Redundancy and Availability-based effects on morpho-syntactic contraction (Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger)

• Redundancy and syntactic reduction (Florian Jaeger)

• Production planning beyond the clause (Carlos Gomez Gallo, Florian Jaeger)

• Marking of coherence relations between clauses (Hannah Rohde, Benjamin Anibel, Florian Jaeger)

• Constant Entropy: Chinese and Chinese English (Ting Qian, Florian Jaeger)

• Redundancy and availability effects on speech rate (Esteban Buz, Florian Jaeger)

2. Language Comprehension

• Syntactic Reduction in Comprehension (Florian Jaeger)

• Comprehension priming (David Race, Mike Tanenhaus, Mary Hare)

• Expectation-based Processing: Chinese Classifiers (Natalie Klein, Renjie Li)

• Entropy and surprisal in reading (Tal Linzen)

3. Adaptation, Priming, and Learning

• Syntactic adaptation in production (Florian Jaeger)

• Syntactic adaptation in comprehension (Alex Fine, Ting Qian, Florian Jaeger, Thomas Farmer, Dave Kleinschmidt, Nicole Craycraft)

• Adaptation in music perception and language comprehension (Thomas Davison, Alex Fine, Narissa Gogos, Florian Jaeger, Dave Kleinschmidt, Grace Lisandrelli)

• Comprehension priming (David Race, Mike Tanenhaus, Mary Hare)

• Surprisal-sensitivity of syntactic priming (Neal Snider, Florian Jaeger)

• Emotional, social, and attentional effects on syntactic priming (Camber Hansen-Karr, Florian Jaeger)

4. Cue combination in probability estimation

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

• What are the cues that speakers use to determine the probability of syntactic structures? (Roger Levy, Florian Jaeger)

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

5. Language acquisition

• Processing effects on language acquisition (Masha Fedzechkina, Alison Austin, Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger)

• Processing constraints on the acquisition of case marking (Masha Fedzechkina, Florian Jaeger, Elissa Newport)

• Processing constraints on the acquisition of case marking 2 (Colleen Dolan, Florian Jaeger, Masha Fedzechkina)

• Studying language acquisition on the WWW

• Diachronic processes in iterative learning (Jacqueline Gutman, Florian Jaeger)

6. Methodological studies

• Feasibility of studying language production in the field (Elisabeth Norcliffe, Florian Jaeger)

• Usability of web-based probability estimates for language research (Benjamin Van Durme, Alex Fine, Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger)

• Statistical analysis of visual world data (Austin Frank, Florian Jaeger, Mike Tanenhaus, Anne Pier Salverda, Mike Mashalov)

Projects in preparation

• Deletion of optional double clitic in South American Spanish (Carlos Gomez Gallo, Florian Jaeger)

Collaborations with undergraduates

• Ideas for Xerox fellowship

Suggested projects

• Run The Whole Thing (Anyone!)