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Language Processing
- Instructor
- Prof. Edward Gibson
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 17 other files · 3 web pages
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- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 9.591J Language Processing, Fall 2004, Prof. Edward Gibson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
8 files
- Lecture 1 · Course Overview Experimental methods: self-paced reading, eye-tracking, event-related… Download
- Lecture 2 · Resources and Sentence Complexity The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences The Dependency… Download
- Lecture 3 · Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko Download
- Lecture 4 · Resources and Ambiguity Resolution The Serial / Parallel Question Download
- Lecture 5 · Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution Download
- Lecture 6 · Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing Parsing Strategies Shift-reduce… Download
- Lecture 7 · Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension Download
- Lecture 8 · Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence… Download
Assignments
9 files
- Working Memory and Sentence Processing Download
- Event-Related Potentials (ERP) Download
- Example of student work for the fourth paper assignment, courtesy of an anonymous student (paper4.pdf) Download
- Summary and Discussion of Fedorenko, Gibson & Rohde 2004 Download
- A lexical OCP effect for that ?, by Mary Ann Walter. Download
- Example of student work for the third paper assignment, courtesy of Mary Ann Walter (walter3.pdf) Download
- Prosodic Cues and Ambiguity Resolution Download
- Toward an Understanding of Working Memory in Parkinson’s Disease Download
- Is that a lexical OCP effect? Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Resources and Sentence Complexity The Complexity of Unambiguous Sentences The Dependency Locality Theory
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Lecture 3: Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension Guest Lecturer: Evelina Fedorenko
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Lecture 4: Resources and Ambiguity Resolution The Serial / Parallel Question
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Lecture 5: Experience / Frequency and Ambiguity Resolution
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Lecture 6: Symbolic Computational Approaches to Language Parsing Parsing Strategies Shift-reduce Parsing
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Lecture 7: Referential and Contextual Issues in Sentence Comprehension
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Lecture 8: Event-related Potentials (ERPs) and Other Brain-imaging Methods Investigating Sentence Comprehension
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Lecture 9: Representational Issues in Syntax: Behavioral evidence for the existence of empty categories Behavioral Evidence that English is Context-free
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Lecture 10: Parallel Distributed Processing Models of Sentence Comprehension
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Lecture 11: Discourse Coherence Guest Lecturer: Florian Wolf
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Lecture 12: Prosodic Structure and Sentence Comprehension
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