Grammars, LLMs and psycholinguistics

Janina Radó

The interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics combines questions, approaches, and methods from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. At different periods, though, psycholinguists have found it difficult to receive useful input from linguistics or ask linguistically relevant questions. One reason for this may be the (primarily syntactic) theories generally used as a linguistic starting point for psycholinguistic research. This talk will take a look at some stations of this development and examine the possibility of LLMs mediating in this process by providing a novel source of data that can inform both research on language processing and linguistic theorizing.