Talks
Invited Talks
Mechanisms of cue weighting. (March 30th, 2022). Language and Brain Lab. Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences & Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut.
The contribution of top-down and preceding-context cues to language production. (March 7th, 2022). Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Seminar, University of Maryland.
Going down the right path: The trade-off between preceding-context and top-down cues in language use. (February 3rd, 2022). Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Understanding automaticity in language. (November 17th, 2021). Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.
Accessibility: from creativity to impairment. (April 15th, 2021). Department of Psychology Language Group, Princeton University.
Mechanisms of over-extension in language production. (February 17th, 2021). Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine.
Morphological productivity: What do we learn from comprehension and production? (February 6th, 2020). Language Science Lunch Talks, Language Science Center, University of Maryland.
Conference Presentations
Harmon, Z., Barak, L., Shafto, P., Edwards, J., & Feldman, N. (2021). The competition–compensation account of Developmental Language Disorder. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Barak, L., Harmon, Z., Feldman, N., Edwards, J., & Shafto, P. (2021). A Computational analysis oflanguage delay and intervention. Talk presented at BUCLD 46.
Harmon, Z., Barak, L., Shafto, P., Edwards, J., & Feldman, N. (2021). Making Heads or Tails of it: A Competition–Compensation Account of Morphological Deficits in Language Impairment. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Harmon, Z., Barak, L., Shafto, P., Edwards, J., & Feldman, N. (2021). The role of novelty in accounting for morphological deficits of children with Developmental Language Disorder: A computational modeling study. Poster presented at the 41st Annual, Virtual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.
Barak, L., Harmon, Z., Feldman, N., Edwards, J., & Shafto, P. (2020). Bare form production for past-tense: A computational analysis of 3 accounts. Paper presented at BUCLD 45. Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2020). The best-laid plan of mice and men: Competition between top-down and preceding-item cues in plan execution. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Kapatsinski, V., Harmon, Z., & Idemaru, K. (2020). Phonetic cue reweighting is error-driven and dimension-based. Poster presented at BUCLD 45. Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2018). Competition between top-down and preceding-item cues in speech production. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Harmon, Z., Idemaru, K., & Kapatsinski, V. (2017). Distributional learning in phonetic cue weighting: Letting go of a previously informative cue. Poster presented at BUCLD 42, Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2017). Reconciling the effect of frequency on semantic extension in language acquisition and language change. Paper presented at Meaning in Flux: Connecting development, variation, and change. Yale University. New Haven, CT.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2017). The interaction between entrenchment and extension in language change. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Cognitive Linguistics, Tartu, Estonia.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2017). Experimental evidence for niche seeking as a result of competition in comprehension. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland.
Harmon, Z., Idemaru, K., & Kapatsinski, V. (2017). The power of a unimodal distribution in cuereweighting: Unimodality vs. prediction error as signs of cue irrelevance. Poster presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2016). Temporal structure of repetition disfluencies in American English. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America. Honolulu, HI.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2016). Accessibility differences during production drive semantic (over-)extension. Paper presented at BUCLD 41. Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2016). Fuse to be used: A weak cue’s guide to attracting attention. Paper presented at Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2016). Increasing frequency leads to entrenchment in perception and generalization in production. Paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2015). Semantic categorization in artificial morphology learning: Preferring portmanteaux to ambiguity. Paper presented at American International Morphology Meeting3, Amherst, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2015). Increasing frequency leads to semantic specialization through the suspicious coincidence effect in statistical learning of constructions. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, Spain.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2015). Exploring semantic structure of morphological systems withminiature artificial language learning. Paper presented at the 1st Quantitative Morphology Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2015). Accessing verbs vs. nouns: Disfluency evidence for the time course of sentence planning and lexicalization, 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics). Newcastle, UK.
Harmon, Z., Redford, M. A., & Dilley, L. C. (2015). Developmental changes in the alignment of syntacticand prosodic structures. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
Harmon, Z., Redford, M. A., & Dilley, L. C. (2015). Intra-clausal prosodic boundary placement as awindow into children’s speech planning. Poster presented at BUCLD 39. Boston, MA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2014). Lexical competition and the length of repetition disfluencies. Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Santa Barbara, CA.
Harmon, Z., & Kapatsinski, V. (2014). Repetition disfluencies as a window on lexical competition. 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Niagara-on-the-lake, ON.
Redford, M. A., Harmon, Z., & Dilley, L. C. (2014). Constraints on prosodic phrasing in childrens speech. LabPhon 14. Tokyo, Japan.