24.945J Language Processing

Seminar in real-time language comprehension focusing on models of sentence and discourse comprehension from linguistic, psychology and artificial intelligence literature, including symbolic and connectionist models. Topics include ambiguity resolution; linguistic complexity; the use of lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, contextual, and prosodic information in language comprehension; the relationship between the computational resources available in working memory and the language processing mechanism; and the psychological reality of linguistic representations.

This class has no prerequisites.

24.945J will be offered this semester (Spring 2019). It is instructed by E. Gibson.

This class counts for a total of 9 credits. This is a graduate-level class.

You can find more information at the DSpace@MIT: 9.591J / 24.945J Language Processing, Fall 2002 site.