BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251106T103346EST-4442vE1o6O@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251106T153346Z DESCRIPTION:Abstract We often have expectations about utterances before th ey are uttered. How we do this\, in language production and comprehension alike\, has implications for practical concerns and for theoretical questi ons about language architecture. The ability to generate reliable expectat ions may be a key enabler of robust language understanding in noisy enviro nments. Understanding the (non-)parallels between the generative mechanism s engaged in comprehension and production is essential for any attempt to close the gap between grammatical 'knowledge' and language use systems. I n this talk I explore how we generate expectations about word-level and se ntence-level meanings. One set of studies uses behavioral interference par adigms to examine the time-course of verb generation when Japanese speaker s plan their utterances. Two other series of studies focus on electrophysi ological evidence for the generation of verb expectations in Chinese\, Spa nish\, and English. Evidence for advance generation of verb meanings is f ound in comprehension and production alike. But we find that different typ es of linguistic information drive expectations on different time scales. In verb-final clauses\, verb expectations are initially driven only by lex ical associations\, and effects of compositional interpretations are obser ved only after a delay. Similar mechanisms operate in production and compr ehension\, but they yield different outputs\, depending on the information available to the language user in a specific task. This Distinguis hed Lecture is jointly organized by CRBLM and the ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Lin guistics. DTSTART:20130412T193000Z DTEND:20130412T203000Z LOCATION:Room 433\, Education Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 370 0 rue McTavish SUMMARY:Generating expectations and meanings in language comprehension and production URL:/channels-contribute/channels/event/generating-exp ectations-and-meanings-language-comprehension-and-production-225642 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR