Serine Avetisyan

About me

In 2016, I started my PhD at Shravan Vasishth's lab. 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.

Education

• 2013-2015    M.Sc. in Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam (DE), Groningen (NL), and Eastern Finland (FI)
• 2002-2007    Bachelor's/Master's combined degree in Teaching English and French , Yerevan State Linguistic University

Conference contributions

• 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

• May-Jul 2016   Teaching assistant, undergraduate course 'Einführung in die Sprachverarbeitung' at University of Potsdam

Scholarships

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