Program
Albuquerque, New Mexico - May 3, 2025.
Room 31 - Santa Ana
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:10 Keynote Talk
Dr. John Hale
10:10 - 10:50 Session 1: Oral Presentations
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Capturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist Parser
Aniello De Santo -
Quantifying Semantic Functional Specialization in the Brain Using Encoding Models of Natural Language
Jiaqi Chen, Richard Antonello, Kaavya Chaparala, Coen Arrow, Nima Mesgarani
10:50 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:20 Session 2: Poster Presentations
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ParaBLoCC: Parallel Basic Locative Constructions Corpus
Peter Viechnicki, Anthony Kostacos -
Profiling Neural Grammar Induction on Morphemically Tokenised Child-Directed Speech
Mila Marcheva, Theresa Biberauer, Weiwei Sun -
Spontaneous Speech Variables for Evaluating LLMs Cognitive Plausibility
Sheng-Fu Wang, Laurent Prevot, Jou-an Chi, Ri-Sheng Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh -
Exploring the Integration of Eye Movement Data on Word Embeddings
Fermín Travi, Gabriel Aimé Leclercq, Diego Fernandez Slezak, Bruno Bianchi, Juan E. Kamienkowski -
Logical Forms Complement Probability in Understanding Language Model (and Human) Performance
Yixuan Wang, Freda Shi -
A Preliminary Analysis of the Predictive Power of Surprisal in Reading Chinese
Hongao Zhu, Muxiaoqiao Xu, Siyuan Song, Yikang Liu, Yuxia Wang, Hai Hu -
SPACER: A Parallel Dataset of Speech Production and Comprehension of Error Repairs
Shiva Upadhye, Jiaxuan Li, Richard Futrell -
Towards a Bayesian Hierarchical Model of Lexical Processing
Cassandra L. Jacobs, Loïc Grobol -
Modeling Chinese L2 Writing Development: The LLM-Surprisal Perspective
Jingying Hu, Yan Cong -
Beyond Binary Animacy: A Multi-Method Investigation of LMs’ Sensitivity in English Object Relative Clauses
Yue Li, Yan Cong, Elaine J. Francis -
When Men Bite Dogs: Testing Good-Enough Parsing in Turkish with Humans and Large Language Models
Onur Keleş, Nazik Dinctopal Deniz -
Transformers Can Model Human Hyperprediction in Buzzer Quiz
Yoichiro Yamashita, Yuto Harada, Yohei Oseki
12:20 - 13:40 Lunch Break
13:40 - 14:40 Invited Talk
Dr. Tessa Verhoef
14:40 - 15:40 Session 3: Oral Presentations
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Unzipping the Causality of Zipf’s Law and Other Lexical Trade-offs
Amanda Doucette, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Morgan Sonderegger -
Creolization vs. Code-Switching: An Agent-Based Cognitive Model for Bilingual Strategies in Language Contact
Charles John Torres, Weijie Xu, Yanting Li, Richard Futrell -
Cross-Framework Generalizable Discourse Relation Classification Through Cognitive Dimensions
Yingxue Fu
15:40 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:10 Session 4: Poster Presentations
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The LLM Language Network: A Neuroscientific Approach for Identifying Causally Task-Relevant Units
Badr AlKhamissi, Greta Tuckute, Antoine Bosselut, Martin Schrimpf -
Modeling Pragmatic Accommodation: A [Rational, Irrational] Speaker in a [Wonky, Normal] World
Muxuan He, Elsi Kaiser, Khalil Iskarous -
Linguistic Blind Spots of Large Language Models
Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri -
From Punchlines to Predictions: A Metric to Assess LLM Performance in Identifying Humor in Stand-Up Comedy
Adrianna Romanowski, Pedro H. V. Valois, Kazuhiro Fukui -
Event Order Recognition in BERT: Evidence from Temporal Connectives
Hannah S. Rognan, Shohini Bhattasali -
Syntactic Learnability of Echo State Neural Language Models at Scale
Ryo Ueda, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Shunsuke Kando, Kentaro Inui -
Distinct Social-Linguistic Processing Between Humans and Large Audio-Language Models: Evidence from Model-Brain Alignment
Hanlin Wu, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai -
Are Larger Language Models Better at Disambiguation?
Ziyuan Cao, William Schuler -
An Empirical Study of Language Syllabification Using Syllabary and Lexical Networks
Rusali Saha, Yannick Marchand -
Humanlikeness of LLMs in Mental Lexicon
Bei Xiao, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai -
Investigating Noun-Noun Compound Relation Representations in Autoregressive Large Language Models
Saffron Kendrick, Mark Ormerod, Hui Wang, Barry Devereux -
FiSMiness: A Finite State Machine-Based Paradigm for Emotional Support Conversations
Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Teng Chen, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Luo Ji
17:15 - 17:55 Session 5: Oral Presentations
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“Is There Anything Else?”: Examining Administrator Influence on Linguistic Features from the Cookie Theft Picture Description Cognitive Test
Changye Li, Zhecheng Sheng, Trevor Cohen, Serguei V. S. Pakhomov -
What to Predict? Exploring How Sentence Structure Influences Contrast Predictions in Humans and Large Language Models
Shuqi Wang, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai