Over the last few decades, the field of Sentence Processing has made remarkable strides, largely through the investigation of processing in English, a head-initial language. However, studying the processing of head-final structures and making comparisons to that of head-initial structures are critical for researchers to gain deeper insights into how humans are able to process different types of information observed in different types of languages. The current conference will promote dialogue and interchange among international scholars working on cutting-edge research on head-final structures in a wide range of languages. Cross-linguistic findings from languages with prominent head-final structures will be brought together and compared, including the comparisons among head-final languages, and those with head-initial languages such as English. The conference will deal with language processing and production by a wide range of speakers – from adults to children, as native speakers and as speakers of a foreign language. It will also be a place for exchanging new methodologies, examining language-specific issues, and helping to determine a research agenda for the next several years.

Invited Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center)

Plenary Speakers

Sachiko Aoshima (American University)
Markus Bader (University of Konstanz)
Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester)
Barbara Lust (Cornell University)
Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow)
Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam University)