BAyLI 4 Blows into town

While it is geographically irrefutable that Santa Cruz is a bay area, is it *in* the Bay Area?

 

This long-standing, and vexing, question probably advanced no closer to resolution by the fact the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology co-hosted the 4th meeting of the Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group (BAyLI) here on campus last Friday, October 10. Thankfully, the BAyLI presenters did move us at least a little bit closer to resolving some equally vexing questions about how brains language (and perhaps how acronymists do too).

 

BAyLI is a relatively new venue for early-career researchers to present work in the cognitive neuroscience of language and language processing from “around the Bay Area and Northern California.” In this edition, UCSC Linguistics PhD students were well represented. Subhs Shrestha presented her work ‘Mot-o or moto? How lexical access and morphosyntactic relations are processed during at-a-glance reading in Spanish’, and UCSC Linguistics PhD students Matthew Kogan and Ruoqing Yao presented ‘Modeling interference with distributed representations of lexical, morphological, and positional information’. They were also joined by UCSC Psychology PhD students Daniel Pfaff and Angela Montiel, and keynote speaker Jean E. Fox Tree, all in a very pleasant sun-lit Namaste Lounge. 

 

Kudos to the BAyLI organizers: Liv Hoversten and Meg Boudewyn in Psychology, and Dustin A. Chacón in Linguistics. We look forward to hosting a future BAyLI!