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9.591J / 24.945J Language Processing, Fall 2002

Image of English phrase structure for the sentence 'The reporter that the senator attacked disliked the editor.'
English phrase structure for the sentence "The reporter that the senator attacked disliked the editor." (Courtesy of Prof. Edward Gibson.)

Highlights of this Course

This course is designed to prepare future researchers in the field of language processing. It deals with the unique aspects of language processing in humans. The site features a comprehensive reading list and assignments tailored to graduate students who enroll in this class.

Course Description

Seminar in real-time language comprehension. Models of sentence and discourse comprehension from the linguistic, psychology, and artificial intelligence literature, including symbolic and connectionist models. Ambiguity resolution. Linguistic complexity. The use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual and prosodic information in language comprehension. The relationship between the computational resources available in working memory and the language processing mechanism. The psychological reality of linguistic representations.
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Instructor:
Prof. Edward Gibson
Course Meeting Times

Lectures:
One session / week
3 hours / session
Level

Graduate
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