Language Processing

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When you have a thought, how are you able to express it in a sentence? How does hearing a sentence cause you to think a thought? And why is Siri still worse at understanding sentences than a typical 5-year-old? Our focus will be on how words are put together into sentences, and then into narratives -- on syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse processing. We will consider and try to integrate multiple sources of evidence: formal analyses, computational models, and behavioral and neuropsychological experiments. Prerequisite: one of CPSY 0200 , LING 0100 , or CPSY 0800 .