Dissertation Workshop with Alan Ke
Dissertation Title: "Feature retrieval in the processing of grammatical illusions"
Please join the Language and Rhetorical Studies Group for a dissertation chapter workshop with Alan Ke, a PhD candidate in Linguistics.
Chapter Description
The overall goal of this thesis is to advance our understanding of how humans comprehend language in real-time, developing and testing a new model of how mental representation of linguistic knowledge interacts with the memory system in sentence processing. To achieve this overall goal, I investigate an important theory that models the interaction between memory and sentence processing, known as cue-based memory retrieval theory, which assumes that a comprehender uses information as retrieval cues to identify meaningful language chunks with matching features in declarative memory. In this chapter, I review two main challenges of the cue-based retrieval theory, and briefly discuss the way this thesis addresses them. The last section of the chapter reviews the reason why such challenges are raised in the previous studies, as well as the solutions that have been previously proposed to address these challenges, and why these solutions are not satisfactory.
About Us
Language and Rhetorical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is an interdisciplinary graduate student organization that focuses on the intersection of language and rhetoric.
Chapter Description
The overall goal of this thesis is to advance our understanding of how humans comprehend language in real-time, developing and testing a new model of how mental representation of linguistic knowledge interacts with the memory system in sentence processing. To achieve this overall goal, I investigate an important theory that models the interaction between memory and sentence processing, known as cue-based memory retrieval theory, which assumes that a comprehender uses information as retrieval cues to identify meaningful language chunks with matching features in declarative memory. In this chapter, I review two main challenges of the cue-based retrieval theory, and briefly discuss the way this thesis addresses them. The last section of the chapter reviews the reason why such challenges are raised in the previous studies, as well as the solutions that have been previously proposed to address these challenges, and why these solutions are not satisfactory.
About Us
Language and Rhetorical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is an interdisciplinary graduate student organization that focuses on the intersection of language and rhetoric.
| Building: | Angell Hall |
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| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Language, Literature |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of Linguistics |
