{"id":4822,"date":"2013-02-18T05:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2013-02-18T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:02:45","slug":"ling-lunch-221-abhijit-debnath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/02\/18\/ling-lunch-221-abhijit-debnath\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 2\/21 - Abhijit Debnath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Abhijit Debnath (Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Search\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0Minimal\u00a0Agent\u00a0Predicate\u00a0Link\u00a0preference\u00a0in\u00a0Recursive\u00a0Agent\u00a0Distribution\u00a0Strategy\u00a0for\u00a0Embedded\u00a0Clauses<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Feb 21, 12:30-1:45p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<p>(Joint work with Gautam Sengupta (University of Hyderabad).)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LL-Debnath.pdf\">Full abstract is available (pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current paper reports two reading experiments in Bangla, (also introducing an ongoing ERP experiment) carried out in order to ascertain whether a Minimal Agent Predicate Association could be a the default preference that results in increase of processing complexity when the number of association links between any agent and the predicates of the sentence (which are the verbs either in matrix clause or embedded clause) increases. Bangla provides a more sensitized design for the tests by providing the location of the matrix verb (having control information) at the end of a sentence (like Japanese). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Abhijit Debnath (Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad) Title: Search\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0Minimal\u00a0Agent\u00a0Predicate\u00a0Link\u00a0preference\u00a0in\u00a0Recursive\u00a0Agent\u00a0Distribution\u00a0Strategy\u00a0for\u00a0Embedded\u00a0Clauses Date\/Time: Thursday, Feb 21, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 (Joint work with Gautam Sengupta (University of Hyderabad).) Full abstract is available (pdf). The current paper reports two reading experiments in Bangla, (also introducing an ongoing ERP experiment) carried out in order to ascertain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}