The 38th annual conference on Human Sentence Processing took place in College Park, MD at the University of Maryland on March 27-29. UMass Scholars, past and present, were well represented in the program!

There were a number of platform presentations with UMass scholars:

• Shota Momma, Norvin Richards, and Victor Ferreira – Speakers encode silent structures: evidence from complementizer priming in English.
• Caroline Andrews, Sebastian Sauppe, Roberto Zariquiey, and Balthasar Bickel – Building a Cross-Linguistic Typology of Sentence Planning from Case Alignment
• Fernanda Ferreira, Julie Bannon, Madison Barker, Beverly Cotter, Casey Felton, Barbora Hlachova, and Adrian Zhou – Rethinking Prosodic Phrasing

Including a special demo:

• Lauren Salig, Erika Exton, Craig Thorburn, Alex Krauska – Conveying psycholinguistic concepts to general audiences: An interactive, problem-solving approach

There are many poster presentations from UMass Scholars as well:

• Yuhui Huang, Anthony Yacovone, and Jesse Snedeker – Switching meanings and forms: An ERP study on multilingual language processing in Mandarin-English bilinguals
• Beverly Cotter, Alberto Falcon, and Fernanda Ferreira – Flexibility in Bilingual Grammar: Judgments and Production of Noun-Adjective Sequences in Spanish-English Speakers
• Eva Neu, Maayan Keshev, and Brian Dillon – Modeling agreement attraction effects in vector space
• Jane Li and Grusha Prasad – Modeling morphological production with an algorithmically specified InflACT-R
• Satoru Ozaki and Shota Momma – Evaluating LLMs for abstract linguistic generalization using English parasitic gaps
• Briony Waite, Tatyana Levari, Anthony Yacovone, and Jesse Snedeker – Lexical access during naturalistic listening in middle childhood and early adolescence
• Thomas Hansen, Anthony Yacovone, Ivi Fung, and Gina Kuperberg – Changing the narrative: ERP markers of building and updating situation models during deep naturalistic comprehension
• Ashlyn Winship, Zander Lynch, John R. Starr, Yifan Wu, Lucas Li, and Marten van Schijndel – Experimentally extracting implicit instruments
• Özge Bakay, Faruk Akkuș, and Brian Dillon – Hierarchical relations in memory retrieval: Evidence from a local anaphor in Turkish
• Anzi Wang, Carolyn Anderson, and Grusha Prasad – To know what you might say, I will probably need to know the event type
• Mara Breen and Katerina Drakoulaki – Prosodic fluency in productions of The Cat in the Hat predicts reading comprehension skill in 6-10-year-olds
• Thomas Morton, Amber Jiang, and Victor Ferreira – Reaching for the unknown: sentence planning under message uncertainty and expectation violation
• Katerina Drakoulaki and Mara Breen – From lab to neighborhood: enhancing child language research through community-based collaborations
• Zander Lynch and Helena Aparicio – Failing Alternatives Lower the Acceptability of Definite Descriptions
• Adrian Zhou, Matthew Lowder and Fernanda Ferreira – Camping Tigers, Hiking Dragons: Dangling Modifiers Do Not Add Processing Difficulty
• Mandy Cartner, Brian Dillon, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, and Maayan Keshev – Rational inference does not predict agreement errors: Gender vs number attraction in Hebrew comprehension
• Suet-Ying Lam and Satoru Ozaki – Investigating the source of the passive ellipsis clause penalty in VP ellipsis
• Barbora Hlachova and Fernanda Ferreira – Garden-path dead-ends contextualized
• Beverly Cotter and Fernanda Ferreira – A Direct Comparison of RC and PP Attachment Preferences
• Shayne Sloggett and Quynh Chieu – Investigating island constraints in Vietnamese