UCLA Language Processing Lab

Welcome to the UCLA Language Processing Lab

We are an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to exploring language and cognition through a multitude of methods.

Current projects include behavioral judgments to written and auditory stimuli, eye movements while reading and listening, pupillometry, and corpus work.

Our current research topics include:

• Structural defaults in processing metonymy
• Processing sluices with d-linked remnants
• Effects of lexical neighborhood on natural reading (with Stephanie Rich and Ian Rigby)
• Implicit prosody and garden path sentences (with Sun-Ah Jun and Adam Royer)
• Predictive processing using correlative adverbs like either and both structures (with Stephanie Rich)
• Biases for resolving exceptive ellipsis structures (with Katy Carlson)
• Preferences for focus realization with focus sensitive particles (with Katy Carlson)

Learn more about our current research.

We are located on the second floor of Campbell Hall in room 2226 on North Campus. Find Campbell Hall on the map.

Special notice: California Meeting on Psycholinguistics at UCLA!

Jesse Harris and Elsi Kaiser organized the inaugural California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) -- an informal, student-centered workshop to promote psycholinguistics research in California on December 2-3, 2017 at UCLA.

See the CAMP website for more details. Future CAMPs are currently being organized. CAMP 2018 will be held in the fall at USC.

Events

Recent Presentations

Opportunities

Eye Tracking Study

We have many opportunities for participation in research. If you wish to participate in an eye tracking study, visit the Sign Up page to schedule a visit.

Student Researcher

The lab is currently at capacity for 2017-2018. Please check in if you are interested in participating in the lab as a student researcher in the future.

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Graduate Program

Interested in pursuing a Ph.D in Psycholinguistics? Learn more about UCLA's graduate program in Linguistics.