Shravan Vasishth, Professor of Linguistics Chair of Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Head of the Department of Linguistics University of Potsdam Department of Linguistics, Haus 14 Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25 D-14476 Potsdam, Germany Tel (office): +49-(0)331-977-2457 Tel (Annett Esslinger, secretary): -2950, Fax: -2087 Email: last name at rz dot uni-potsdam dot de location map how to get there: see bvg or deutsche bahn web pages (arrival station: Bahnhof Golm)
| [1] | Brian Bartek, Richard Lewis, and Shravan Vasishth. Distinguishing effects of expectation and integration in non-local dependencies. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, New York City, NY, 2010. NYU. [ bib ] |
| [2] | Brian Bartek, Mason Smith, Richard L. Lewis, and Shravan Vasishth. Linking working memory processes with self-paced reading and eyetracking measures: How lexical processing load and spr exaggerate locality effects. In Proceedings of the CUNY sentence processing conference, La Jolla, CA, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [3] | Marisa Ferrara Boston, John T. Hale, Reinhold Kliegl, and Shravan Vasishth. Surprising parser actions and reading difficulty. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT Short Papers, pages 5-8, Columbus, OH, 2008. The Ohio State University. [ bib ] |
| [4] | Marisa Ferrara Boston, John T. Hale, Shravan Vasishth, and Reinhold Kliegl. Examining syntactic factors in eye fixation durations. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, Davis, CA, 2009. University of California, Davis. [ bib ] |
| [5] | Zhong Chen, Gueilan Guo, Qiang Li, and Shravan Vasishth. Integration cost or structural frequency? the evidence from chinese relative clauses. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, New York, NY, 2010. NYU. [ bib ] |
| [6] | Zhong Chen and Shravan Vasishth. Locality cost in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Chinese. In Proceedings of the LSA Conference, 2010. [ bib ] |
| [7] | Zhong Chen and Shravan Vasishth. Does the parser exclusively use structure-sensitive search in reflexives? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. In CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [8] | Heiner Drenhaus, Shravan Vasishth, Kristin Wittich, and Umesh Patil. Locality and working memory capacity: An ERP study of German. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Conference, Turku, Finland, 2007. [ bib ] |
| [9] | F. Engelmann and S. Vasishth. Language processing and eye-movement models. In Proceedings of European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, France, 2011. [ bib ] |
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Felix Engelmann and Shravan Vasishth.
Processing grammatical and ungrammatical center embeddings in
English and German: A computational model.
In A. Howes, D. Peebles, and R. Cooper, editors, Proceedings of
9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Manchester, UK, 2009.
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Previous work has shown that in English ungrammatical center embeddings are more acceptable and easier to process than their grammatical counterparts (Frazier, 1985; Gibson & Thomas, 1999). A well-known explanation for this preference for ungrammatical structures is based on working-memory overload: the claim is that the prediction for an upcoming verb phrase is forgotten due to memory overload, leading to an illusion of grammaticality (Gibson & Thomas, 1999). However, this memory-overload account cannot explain the recent finding by Vasishth, Suckow, Lewis, and Kern (2008) that in German no illusion of ungrammaticality occurs. We present a simple recurrent network model that can explain both the presence of the grammaticality illusion in English and its absence in German. We argue that the grammaticality illusion emerges as a function of experience with language-specific structures, not working memory constraints as argued for in Gibson and Thomas (1999).
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| [11] | Felix Engelmann and Shravan Vasishth. Processing grammatical and ungrammatical center embeddings in English and German: A computational model. In Proceedings of AMLaP, Barcelona, Spain, 2009. University of Barcelona. [ bib ] |
| [12] | Sabrina Gerth, Marisa Ferrara Boston, John Hale, and Shravan Vasishth. Predicting differences in sentence processing difficulty with an implemented complexity metric. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, New York City, NY, 2010. NYU. [ bib ] |
| [13] | S. Hanne, U. Patil, F. Burchert, R. De Bleser, and S. Vasishth. Aphasic sentence comprehension disorders from a computational modeling perspective. In Proceedings of Science of Aphasia XII, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [14] | Sandra Hanne, Irina Sekerina, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Ria De Bleser. Processing of noncanonical sentences in german agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from eye movements. In Proceedings of AMLaP Conference, Cambridge, UK, 2008. [ bib ] |
| [15] | Sandra Hanne, Irina Sekerina, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Ria De Bleser. Processing of noncanonical sentences in German agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from eye movements. In Proceedings of Science of Aphasia Conference, Chalkidiki, Greece, 2008. [ bib ] |
| [16] | Sandra Hanne, Irina Sekerina, Shravan Vasishth, Frank Burchert, and Ria De Bleser. Chance in agrammatic sentence comprehension: What does it really mean? evidence from eye movements of german agrammatic aphasics. In Matt Goldrick, editor, Proceedings of Academy of Aphasia Conference, Boston, MA, 2009. [ bib ] |
| [17] | Pia Knoeferle, Shravan Vasishth, Matthew Crocker, and Richard Lewis. Effects of NP-type, NP-similarity, and cleft-type in reading German sentences. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Arizona, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [18] | Richard Lewis and Shravan Vasishth. Toward zero-parameter predictions of reading times: A new computational theory of sentence comprehension as skilled working memory retrieval. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Arizona, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [19] | Richard L. Lewis and Shravan Vasishth. A hypothesis about serial order information in parsing (that yields a novel explanation of center-embedding difficulty). In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Arizona, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [20] | Pavel Logačev and Shravan Vasishth. Case overwriting effects in german. In Proceedings of the CUNY sentence processing conference, La Jolla, CA, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [21] | Pavel Logačev and Shravan Vasishth. Retrieval interference in sentence comprehension: New theory and data. In Proceedings of AMLaP, Barcelona, Spain, 2009. University of Barcelona. [ bib ] |
| [22] | Umesh Patil, Sandra Hanne, Shravan Vasishth, Ria De Bleser, and Frank Burchert. Modeling aphasic sentence comprehension in a cue-based retrieval architecture. In CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [23] | Umesh Patil, Sandra Hanne, Shravan Vasishth, Ria De Bleser, and Frank Burchert. Modeling offline and online (eye movements) sentence comprehension in aphasia using the cue-based retrieval architecture. In Academy of Aphasia, Montréal, Canada, 2011. [ bib ] |
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Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth, and Reinhold Kliegl.
Compound effect of probabilistic disambiguation and memory
retrievals on sentence processing: Evidence from an eye-tracking corpus.
In A. Howes, D. Peebles, and R. Cooper, editors, Proceedings of
9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Manchester, UK, 2009.
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We evaluate the predictions of surprisal and cue-based theory of sentence processing using an eye-tracking corpus, the Potsdam Sentence Corpus. Surprisal is a measure of processing complexity based on a probabilistic grammar and is computed in terms of the total probability of structural options that have been disconfirmed at each input word. The cue-based theory characterizes processing difficulty in terms of working memory costs that derive from decay and interference arising during content-based retrieval requests of previously processed material (e.g., to incrementally build the sentence structure). We show that both surprisal and cue-based parsing independently explain difficulty in sentences processing and interestingly, they have an over-additive effect on processing when combined together.
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| [25] | Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth, and Richard Lewis. Are grammatical constraints immune to retrieval interference? In International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, San Sebastián, Spain, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [26] | Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth, and Richard Lewis. Early retrieval interference in syntax-guided antecedent search. In CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [27] | Scott A. Schwenter and Shravan Vasishth. Absolute and relative scalar particles in Spanish and Hindi. In Proceedings of the 26th Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference, pages 225-233, Berkeley, CA, 2000. [ bib ] |
| [28] | Rukshin Shaher, Felix Engelmann, Pavel Logačev, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. The integration advantage due to clefting and topicalization. In Proceedings of Information Structure: Between Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Leuven, Belgium, 2009. [ bib ] |
| [29] | Rukshin Shaher, Felix Engelmann, Pavel Logacev, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. The integration advantage due to clefting and topicalization. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia, Hyderabad, India, 2009. [ bib ] |
| [30] | Rukshin Shaher, Pavel Logacev, Felix Engelmann, Narayanan Srinivasan, and Shravan Vasishth. Clefting, topicalization and the given-new preference: Eyetracking evidence from Hindi. In Proceedings of AMLaP Conference, Cambridge, 2008. [ bib ] |
| [31] | Rukshin Shaher, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. Clefting and left-dislocation facilitate accessibility at the discourse-level. In CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [32] | Rukshin Shaher, Shravan Vasishth, and Narayanan Srinivasan. Clefting and left-dislocation facilitate accessibility at the discourse-level. Amherst, MA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [33] | Esther Sommerfeld, Shravan Vasishth, Pavel Logačev, Maike Baumann, and Heiner Drenhaus. A two-phase model of integration processes in sentence parsing: Locality and antilocality effects in german. In Proceedings of the CUNY sentence processing conference, La Jolla, CA, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [34] | Katja Suckow, Shravan Vasishth, and Richard L. Lewis. Interference and memory overload during parsing. In Proceedings of AMLaP 2005, Ghent, Belgium, September 2005. Ghent University. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [35] | Katja Suckow, Shravan Vasishth, Richard L. Lewis, and Mason Smith. Interference and memory overload during parsing of grammatical and ungrammatical embeddings. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York City, March 2006. CUNY. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [36] | Shravan Vasishth. Monotonicity constraints on negative polarity in Hindi. In Mary Bradshaw, David Odden, and Derek Wyckoff, editors, OSUWPL, Volume 51, Ohio State University, 1998. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [37] | Shravan Vasishth. Word order, negation, and negative polarity in hindi. In Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen, Robert Levine, and Anthony J. Gonsalves, editors, OSUWPL, Volume 53, pages 108-131, Ohio State University, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [38] | Shravan Vasishth. An empirical evaluation of sentence processing models: Center embeddings in Hindi. In Michael Daniels, David Dowty, Anna Feldman, and Vanessa Metcalf, editors, OSUWPL, Volume 56, pages 159-181, Ohio State University, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [39] | Shravan Vasishth. Processing Hindi center embeddings. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, page 36, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2001. [ bib ] |
| [40] | Shravan Vasishth. Quantificational elements and polarity licensing in japanese. In Mineharu Nakayama and Jr. Charles J. Quinn, editors, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 9, Stanford, CA, 2001. CSLI Publications. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [41] | Shravan Vasishth. Distance effects or similarity-based interference? a model comparison perspective. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2002. [ bib ] |
| [42] | Shravan Vasishth. Discourse context sometimes fails to neutralize default word order preferences: The interaction between working memory constraints and information structure. In Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference (Osnabrück), 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [43] | Shravan Vasishth. Quantifying processing difficulty in human sentence parsing: The role of decay, activation, and similarity-based interference. In Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference (Osnabrück). Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. [ bib ] |
| [44] | Shravan Vasishth. The referential (in)accessibility of definite/indefinite subjects and objects. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing conference, MIT, Boston, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [45] | Shravan Vasishth. Decay and similarity in sentence processing. In Technical Report, IEICE, Tokyo, Japan, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [46] | Shravan Vasishth, Rama Kant Agnihotri, Eva M. Fernández, and Rajesh Bhatt. Noun modification preferences in Hindi. In Proceedings of Construction of Knowledge conference, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [47] | Shravan Vasishth, Marisa F. Boston, John T. Hale, and Reinhold Kliegl. Determinants of parsing difficulty. In Proceedings of ECEM, Southampton, UK, 2009. University of Southampton. Talk. [ bib ] |
| [48] | Shravan Vasishth, Sven Bruessow, Richard L. Lewis, and Heiner Drenhaus. Processing constraints on negative and positive polarity. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Sentence Processing Conference, New York City, March 2006. CUNY. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [49] | Shravan Vasishth, Irene Cramer, Christoph Scheepers, and Joel Wagner. Does increasing distance facilitate processing? In Proceedings of the 16th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [50] | Shravan Vasishth, Heiner Drenhaus, Doug Saddy, and Richard Lewis. Processing negative polarity. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Arizona, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [51] | Shravan Vasishth, Heiner Drenhaus, and Titus von der Malsburg. Integration difficulty and expectation-based syntactic comprehension. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, New York City, NY, 2010. NYU. [ bib ] |
| [52] | Shravan Vasishth, Eva M. Fernández, Rama Kant Agnihotri, and Rajesh Bhatt. Relative clause attachment in Hindi: Effects of RC length and RC placement. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Conference, Aix en Provence, France, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [53] | Shravan Vasishth and Brian D. Joseph. Constellations, Polysemy, and Hindi -ko. In Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Conference, University of Berkeley, CA, 2002. [ bib ] |
| [54] | Shravan Vasishth and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff. Processing as abduction: a sentence processing model. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation, Birmingham University, England, 2000. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/˜esslli/notes/meurers.html. [ bib ] |
| [55] | Shravan Vasishth and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff. Sentence processing as abduction+deduction. In Michael Daniels, David Dowty, Anna Feldman, and Vanessa Metcalf, editors, OSUWPL, Volume 56, pages 183-207, Ohio State University, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [56] | Shravan Vasishth and Richard Lewis. Decay and interference in human sentence parsing. In Proceedings of the Annual ACT-R Workshop (Carnegie Mellon), 2003. [ bib ] |
| [57] | Shravan Vasishth and Richard Lewis. Decay and interference in human sentence processing: Parsing in a unified theory of cognition. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [58] | Shravan Vasishth and Richard Lewis. The role of decay and activation in human sentence processing. In Proceedings of the AMLaP Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [59] | Shravan Vasishth and Richard Lewis. Modeling sentence processing in ACT-R. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Incremental Parsing, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [60] | Shravan Vasishth, Christoph Scheepers, Hans Uszkoreit, Joel Wagner, and G. J. M. Kruijff. Constraint defeasibility and concurrent constraint satisfaction in human sentence processing. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [61] | Shravan Vasishth and Hans Uszkoreit. Self center embeddings revisited. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Aix en Provence, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [62] | Titus von der Malsburg, Reinhold Kliegl, and Shravan Vasishth. A scanpath measure reveals effects of age of reader and syntactic complexity of sentences. In Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseilles, France, 2011. Published in Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(3). [ bib ] |
| [63] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. A time-sensitive similarity measure for scanpaths. In Proceedings of the ECEM, Potsdam, Germany, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [64] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. A new method for analyzing eye movements in reading that is sensitive to spatial and temporal patterns in sequences of fixations. In Proceedings of the CUNY sentence processing conference, North Carolina, 2008. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [65] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Individual differences in scanpaths and reanalysis strategies while reading temporarily ambiguous sentences. In Proceedings of ECEM, Southampton, UK, 2009. University of Southampton. Talk. [ bib ] |
| [66] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Readers use different strategies to recover from garden-paths. In Proceedings of the Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar, Cortona, Italy, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [67] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. A software for analyzing spatio-temporal patterns in eye-movements. In Proceedings of CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA, 2009. University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis. [ bib | .pdf ] |
| [68] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Reanalysis strategies in temporarily ambiguous sentences - a scanpath analysis. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference, New York City, NY, 2010. NYU. [ bib ] |
| [69] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Eye-movement strategies for dealing with garden-path sentences. In CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [70] | Titus von der Malsburg and Shravan Vasishth. Strategies for dealing with attachment ambiguities in spanish. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of Psycholinguistics, San Sebastián, Spain, 2011. [ bib ] |
| [71] | Tessa Warren, Shravan Vasishth, Masako Hirotani, and Heiner Drenhaus. Licensor strength and locality effects in negative polarity licensing. In Proceedings of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, CUNY, New York City, 2006. [ bib | .pdf ] |
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