Our lab investigates the cognitive mechanisms that underlie people's ability to produce and understand language. We focus on research questions at the level of sentences, examining structure and meaning, and how linguistic information is integrated with different types of contextual information (technically, semantics, syntax and pragmatics). A central experimental methodology is interactive game-like tasks, where we measure linguistic behaviour and eye movements. We strive to expand sentence processing research beyond English, to the study of under-researched languages.
The lab is located in Sid Smith 569A (ground floor, purple section). If you would like to participate in a study, email daphna[.]heller[@]utoronto[.]ca.
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Lab Members
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Daphna HellerPrinciple Investigator
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Nayoun KimPostdoctoral Fellow
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Kelly-Ann BlakePhD student
Research Interests: Prediction in conversation, the influences involve in perspective-taking during language production, and the encoding of semantic information.
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Breanna PratleyResearch Assistant |
Undergraduates
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Bahareh Doroudiani |
Nona Jalali |
Amanda Leiva |
Alumni
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Becky TollanPhD, 2019
Thesis: Cross-linguistic effects of subjecthood, case, and transitivity in syntax and sentence processing
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Megan ParkerMA, 2018 Thesis: Open doors and closed laptops: overspecifying state information in the production of referring expressions |
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Jida JaffanMA, 2019 Thesis: Numeral before Noun except after Adjective: Assessing the validity of isomorphic structures and harmony preferences in explaining underlying word order preferences in the noun phrase |
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Danielle MoedMA, 2019 Thesis: Is the pan without eggs the same as the empty pan? How types of modifiers affect choice of referring expression and memory |
Recent Undergraduates
- Kim Mina, BA
- Rosie Webb, BA