Serine Avetisyan

• University of Potsdam
• Department of Linguistics
• Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25
• 14476 Potsdam, Germany
📧 firstname.lastname [at] uni-potsdam.de

About me

In 2016, I started my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Shravan Vasishth and Prof. Dr. Sol Lago. My research focuses on memory mechanisms that underlie the computation of grammatical relations between sentence constituents. I am currently using behavioral measures (e.g., self-paced reading, eye-tracking) and Bayesian modelling to investigate how number agreement is computed between subject and verb in Eastern Armenian, with a focus on why this computation can fail in the presence of other linguistic items with similar features in working memory.

Background

• 2015   M.Sc. in Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam (DE), Groningen (NL), and Eastern Finland (FI)
• 2007   Specialist Diploma in Teaching English and French, Yerevan State Linguistic University (ARM)

Publications

• Paape, D., Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction: A computational evaluation. [preprint]
• Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2020). Does case-marking affect subject-verb agreement attraction in sentence comprehension? Journal of Memory and Language, 112, 104087. [paper]

Conference contributions

• Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2020). Dissociation of case and number information in agreement processing. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Potsdam, Germany, September 3-5. [abstract]
• Paape, D., Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2019). Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Moscow, Russia, September 6-8. [poster]
• Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2018). Case and (mis)interpretation in number attraction: Evidence from Eastern Armenian. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany, September 6-8. [poster]
• Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2018). Case and misinterpretation in number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, USA, March 15-17. [poster]

Teaching

• Summer 2016   Undergraduate course 'Introduction to Language Processing' at University of Potsdam, Germany (teaching assistant).

Scholarships

• 2016-2019   International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB) Category A Fellowship
• 2013-2015   Erasmus Mundus Category A Scholarship