UCLA Linguistics

Investigating the cognitive mechanisms of language.

We use behavioral and computational methods to understand how the human brain processes, comprehends, and produces language in real-time.

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About the Lab

Located in the heart of the UCLA campus, the Language Processing Lab is a vibrant community of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates dedicated to the study of psycholinguistics.

Our research investigates a wide range of topics, including syntactic parsing, lexical access, prosody, and bilingual language processing. We employ various methodologies, from traditional self-paced reading and eye-tracking to computational modeling, to uncover the architecture of the human language faculty.

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Current Projects

Explore the ongoing investigations currently being conducted by our researchers and students.

Real-time Sentence Processing

Investigating how comprehenders resolve syntactic ambiguities on the fly using eye-tracking while reading and auditory listening paradigms.

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Bilingual Lexical Access

Examining cross-linguistic activation in early and late bilinguals to understand the organization of the bilingual mental lexicon.

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Computational Psycholinguistics

Utilizing information-theoretic models (like Surprisal Theory) and Large Language Models to predict human reading times and behavioral responses.

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Recent News

Oct 15, 2026

New publication in Cognition

Lab members have published a new paper on predictive processing in naturalistic listening contexts. Read the paper here.

Sep 02, 2026

Welcome to our new cohort!

We are thrilled to welcome two new PhD students and several undergraduate research assistants to the lab for the Fall quarter.

Jul 12, 2026

CUNY Conference Presentations

The lab will be presenting three posters and one talk at the upcoming CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

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Want to participate in our research?

We are always looking for participants for our language experiments! Most studies involve reading sentences on a computer screen or listening to audio, and take about 30-60 minutes. Participants are compensated for their time (cash or course credit).

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