Brian Dillon writes:
This fall semester John Kingston and I would like to resurrect the great tradition of the UMass Psycholinguistics evening meetings. We invite you to join us for the Psycholinguistics Evening Meetings... Psych! (EM).
Psych! (EM) will meet every 2-3 weeks during the semester. It will function mainly as a reading group / journal club, as well as a venue for discussion of in-progress projects in Psycholinguistics. If there's a psycholinguistics paper you've been dying to read or some puzzling data you've been dying to discuss, an experimental technique you would like to talk about, then this is the venue! Psych! (EM) also intends to be a forum for discussion of technical / methodological issues related to the various experimental paradigms that people are using around the department.
If you'd like to receive further updates on PsychEM meetings, please sign up for the *ling-psych mailing list*. Meeting announcements and information will be sent out to that mailing list. You can sign up for the list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/ling-psych
Our first meeting will be Wednesday September 18th at 7:30pm, at my house in Northampton (181 Main St, Apt C). I'll provide beer and snacks. For this meeting we'll do our semester planning, and read 'Towards a model of acceptability judgments' by Markus Bader and Jana Häussler (here's a link that will work on campus: http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=7802268). The (informal) discussion will be led by Brian.
