The special session of this year’s CUNY is The Role of Linguistic Theory in Psycholinguistics. It is an exciting time to highlight the important interdisciplinary relationship between linguists and psychologists that lies at the the heart of the CUNY community. Investigations into the neural and cognitive processes that underpin language have found numerous connections to theoretical work in linguistics, from phonology on up to pragmatics. At the same time, linguistic theories have taken insights from cognitive and developmental constraints to inform grammatical theories. This tight linkage has led researchers to ask interesting questions at this interface, including: How are basic linguistic operations realized in neural computations? How do extra-linguistic cognitive and developmental factors shape natural grammars? Do different grammatical systems lead to systematically different processing strategies? For the special session, we interpret linguistic theory as broadly as possible, comprising work in theoretical prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics and discourse/pragmatics. Work that is appropriate for the special session will explore the link between formal theories at any of these levels of representation and issues of real-time sentence processing.

For the special session, we interpret linguistic theory as broadly as possible, comprising work in theoretical prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics and discourse/pragmatics. Work that is appropriate for the special session will explore the link between formal theories at any of these levels of representation and issues of real-time sentence processing. As usual, we also invite abstracts related to language processing more generally.