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Suzanne

Department of Linguistics
New York University
726 Broadway, 7th Floor, rm707
New York, NY 10003

Suzanne.Dikker @ nyu.edu

Third-year PhD student

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Research

Interests

My current research focuses on morpho-syntactic prediction in language processing: Do we postulate 'empty' syntactic templates before lexical material becomes available? How specific are these predictions? e.g., do they include detailed estimates of the visual/auditory form of an expected word category?
To answer these and related questions, I use MEG (with Hugh Rabagliati and Liina Pylkkanen) to study the neural correlates of early effects of syntactic processing. Furthermore, I use bilingual data ( code-switching ) to investigate the structural properties of syntactic prediction.
Additional interests include language contact, and agreement morphology, specifically the interplay of formal and conceptual features.

Some Projects

Study: word order prediction and syntactic templates in parsing / Data: Online experiments Dutch-English code-switching / [Abstract]
collected @ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Study: neural correlates word category access / Data: MEG local syntactic violations English (monolingual) / [Abstract]
with Hugh Rabagliati @ Neurolinguistics Lab

Study: interaction syntactic & conceptual features gender & number agreement / Data: e.g., Spanish, Russian

Study: linguistic status adpositions - predicates? operators? & syntax / Data: Spontaneous Media Lengua / [Abstract]
thanks to Jorge Gomez Rendon, University of Amsterdam

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(subm) Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex [pdf]
with Hugh Rabagliati and Liina Pylkkanen

(2008) Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: redefining relexification
In: Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker & Rosa Salas Paloma (eds.) / Hispanisation. The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas (EALT 39)/ Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

(2006) On the presence versus absence of morphological marking in four Romance-based creoles
with Jacques Arends, Hugo Cardoso, Eva van Lier, and Josje Verhagen / In: Bhatt, Parth & Ingo Plag (eds.) / The structure of creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects / Tübingen: Niemeyer

(2005) The interplay between syntactic and contextual information: Agreement domains in FDG
with Eva van Lier / In: Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and María de los Ángeles Gómez-González (eds.) / Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (Linguistic Insights, 26) / Berne: Peter Lang

(2004) On the whereabouts of gender and number agreement: location and accessibility
In: Kees Hengeveld (ed.) / Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar / Working Papers in Functional Grammar 79 / pp. 35-51

(2004) review of Tomoyuki Koijma & Kimitaka Kaga (2003): ‘Auditory lexical-semantic processing impairments in aphasic patients reflected in event-related potentials (N400)’ Auris Nasus Larynx. 2003 Dec;30(4):369-78
/ In: Afasiologie. Referatenblad voor Taalpathologie 26 / 2 / 2004 / pp. 44-45

(2004) Taalanalyse: een vak apart
with Maaike Verrips / report, lit. review on the scientific validity of language analysis as a method to determine the origin of asylum seekers / Published by and available through de Taalstudio

(2002) El indefinido e imperfecto en el español como L2: La definición y perfección de una distinción aspectual
In: Andalusischer Germanistenverband Magazin / Diciembre 2002 / pp. 22-32

Publications

Publications

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Talks/Posters

Posters\Talks

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(2008) Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: a manipulation of prediction strength and morphological type [poster]
poster with Hugh Rabagliati and Liina Pylkkanen @ 21th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing / Chapel Hill, USA / March 2008

(2007) Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: a magnetoencephalography study
talk with Hugh Rabagliati and Liina Pylkkanen @ Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting / New York, USA / May 2007 [Graduate Students Present Award]

(2007) MEG reveals early sensitivity to phrase-structure violations in visual cortex [abstract]
talk with Hugh Rabagliati and Liina Pylkkanen @ 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing / La Jolla, USA / March 2007

(2007) Fine-graining structure prediction in sentence processing: evidence from language mixing [poster]
poster with Peter Indefrey @ 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing / La Jolla, USA / March 2007

(2006) Incremental versus depth-first structure generation in parsing: Experimental evidence from word order patterns in code-switching.
poster with Peter Indefrey @ 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 12) / Nijmegen, the Netherlands / August-September 2006

(2006) Levels of template selection and look-ahead
invited talk @ Functional Grammar Colloquium / Amsterdam, the Netherlands / June 2006

(2006) The classification of Spanish prepositions: Evidence from Media Lengua
talk @ Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 36) / Rutgers, USA / March-April 2006

(2006) Disentangling incremental & top-down parsing: experimental evidence from VO/OV word order in code-switching
poster with Peter Indefrey @ 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing / New York, USA / March 2006

(2005) On the collection of ‘useful and reliable data’ [Language Analysis in asylum cases]
talk given & symposium organized @ the 7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law / Cardiff, UK / July 2005

(2005) Language analysis as a method to determine national origin in asylum cases
talk with Carolien van den Hazelkamp @ Linguistics in the Netherlands day (TIN-dag) / Utrecht, The Netherlands / January 2005

(2004) On the whereabouts of gender and number agreement: location and accessibility
talk with Eva van Lier @ 11th International Conference on Functional Grammar / Oviedo, Spain / September 2004

(2004) Los límites de la relexificación en una lengua bilingue mezclada: preposiciones castellanas en la Media Lengua
talk @ Conference on Amerindian languages in contact with Spanish: linguistic and sociolinguistic issues / Amsterdam, The Netherlands / June 2004

(2004) A unit-based approach to the representation of agreement morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar
talk @ Functional Grammar Colloquium / Amsterdam, The Netherlands / March 2004

(2003) Morphological richness and formative context of four Romance-based creoles
talk with Jacques Arends, Hugo Cardoso, Eva van Lier, and Josje Verhagen @ International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages / Siegen, Germany / October 2003

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Spring 2008 Language / recitation / Professor: Anna Szabolcsi

Fall 2007 Language & Society / recitation / Professor: Tara S. Sanchez

Spring 2007 Bilingualism / no recitation / Professor: Zvjezdana Vrzic

Fall 2006 Cognition / 2 recitations / Professor: Gregory Murphy
course taught through NYU Department of Psychology

Teaching

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Last Modified: March 2008