STEP2023
CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics
Advancing the methodological skills and conceptual prowess of students of linguistics and psycholinguistics since 2014.
The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop in current issues and methods in psycholinguistics. STEP will take place in Edmonton, Alberta May 26-31, 2025.
The Spring School is directed at postdoctoral fellows, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods.
Courses
1. A short overview and introduction to statistics and R, Dalia Cristerna-Román and Vera Xia, University of Alberta
2. Introduction to Mixed-Effects Modelling with LME4, Hannah Lam and Veranika Puhacheuskaya, University of Alberta
3. Embrace the complexities of bilingual development: statistical methods beyond linear regression, Youran Lin, University of Alberta
4. The fundamentals of data visualization in R, Guilherme D. Garcia, Université Laval
5. Generalized additive modeling for Linguistics, Martijn Wieling, University of Groningen
6. Understanding Surprisal in (Large) Language Models and Its Applications in Psycholinguistics, Carrie Demmans Epp, University of Alberta and Gaisha Oralova, University of Pittsburgh
Schedule
Registration
Dates: May 26-31, 2025
Fee: $390
This registration fee covers all of your course selections, as well as coffee, tea, snacks and lunch each day.
Registration closes May 12, 2025
Visa requirements and processing times for visitors from outside of Canada.
Recorded material
In previous years we have hosted some tutorials online. Check the archive page for more details. If you missed one and would like to watch a recording, you can request access to any of our babySTEP videos by filling out a short form.