Plenary 1 (Morning Slot): TBA
Plenary 2 (Afternoon slot):
Dr. Lauren Ackerman – Newcastle University
Lauren is a researcher at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University (and ECR). Her research examines how the real-time representation of syntactic structure is influenced by non-syntactic sources of information. The two sources of her current work focuses on are: (1) observed, deduced, or assumed information about the gender of human referents in the sentence, in particular exploring variation associated with the comprehender’s (reader’s or listener’s) exposure to and experience with people who are of a nonbinary gender; and (2) the disambiguating power of boundaries, and in particular, prosodic boundaries that are typically associated with syntactic clause boundaries.