International Conference on
Processing Head-final Structures
September 21-22 2007, Rochester Institute of Technology, Golisano Auditorium

Poster Program

For the abstracts of talks and posters, click here

* Invited speakers

Friday, September 21st

8:30-9:00Registration, Coffee & continental breakfast
9:00-9:05Welcome remark
Session 1 : Processing 1 - chair: JJ Nakayama (The Ohio State University)
9:05-9:45*Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow)
"A rational analysis of verb-final sentence interpretation"
9:45-10:15Leticia Pablos (University of Reading)
"Rich Agreement in Basque: how fronted auxiliaries guide the initial parsing of sentences"
10:15-10:45Nobuyuki Jincho (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN), & Reiko Mazuka (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
"Individual differences in on-line sentence comprehension: Effects of working memory capacity and cumulative linguistic knowledge"
10:45-11:05Coffee Break
Session 2 : Processing 2 - chair: Susan Garnsey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:05-11:35Masako Hirotani (Carleton University) and Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
"On-line Use of Prosodic Boundaries: ERP Evidence"
11:35-12:05Petra Augurzky (University of Stuttgart) and Matthias Schlesewsky, (University of Marburg)
"Prosodic phrasing affects the incremental interpretation of ambiguous NPs in head-final sentence processing – ERP evidence from German"
12:05-12:45*Markus Bader (University of Konstanz)
"Being both head-initial and head-final"
12:45-2:45Poster session, Lunch
Session 3 : Processing Chinese Relative clauses - chair: Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)
2:45-3:15Chien-Jer Lin (National Taiwan Normal University) and Thomas G. Bever (University of Arizona)
"Processing Head-final Relative Clauses without Garden Paths"
3:15-3:55*Shukhan Ng (CUNY Graduate Center) and *Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Use your headedness: An exercise in psycholinguistic exploitation"
3:55-4:25Yowyu Brian Lin and Susan Garnsey (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Plausibility and the resolution of temporary ambiguity in relative clause comprehension in Mandarin"
4:25-4:45Coffee Break
4:45-5:15Open discussion 1: chair: Garnsey, panelists: Lin, Ng, Fodor, Lin
Session 4: Production - chair: Masako Hirotani (Carleton University)
5:15-5:45Noriko Iwasaki (University of California at Davis)
"Incremental sentence production in Japanese: Observations from elicited speech errors in a picture description task"
5:45-6:15Mikihiro Tanaka (Tohoku University/Japan Science Technology), Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh), and Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
"The representation of conceptual and syntactic information during sentence production"

Saturday, September 22nd

8:30-9:00Coffee & continental breakfast
Session 5: Acquisition - chair: Jerry Packard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
9:00-9:30Jeong-Ah Shin and Kiel Christianson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Cross-linguistic syntactic influence in Korean-English bilingual production"
9:30-10:10*Babara Lust (Cornell University)
"Directionality in the Architecture of the Language Faculty: Evidence from Language Acquisition."
10:10-10:40Adam Zawiszewski, Beatriz Fernández, and Itziar Laka (University of the Basque Country)
"Native and non-native speakers process object-verb agreement: an ERP study"
10:40-11:10Open discussion 2: chair: Packard, panelists: Shin, Lust, Zawiszewski
11:10-11:30Coffee Break
Session 6: Corpus-based approach 1 - chair: Jeff Runner (University of Rochester)
11:30-12:00Douglas Roland, Carolyn O'meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner (University at Buffalo)
"Discourse context and English object relative clauses"
12:00-12:30Hiroko Morioka and Kirk Baker (The Ohio State Universty)
"Corpus analysis of Verbal Noun predicates in Japanese"
12:30-1:00Fuyun Wu and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)
"Subject Preference, Semantic Distance Hierarchy, and Syntactic/Lexical Cues: Relative Clauses in Chinese Corpus"
1:00-2:10Lunch break
Session 7: Corpus-based approach 2 - chair: Doug Roland (University at Buffalo)
2:10-2:40Tadahisa Kondo (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) and Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)
"Frequency of non-canonical orders and the long before short tendency in Japanese: a corpus study"
2:40-3:25*Tutorials on corpus analysis: Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester)
"Corpus-based Research on Language Processing: Working with Naturally Unbalanced Data"
3:25-3:45Open discussion 3: chair: Roland, panelists: Kondo, Jaeger, Morioka
3:45-4:10Coffee Break
Session 8: Cross-linguistic approach - chair: Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)
4:10-4:50*Shravan Vasishth (Unviersity of Potsdam)
"Integration processes in online sentence comprehension: A cross-linguistic and cross-methodological investigation"
4:50-5:30*Sachiko Aoshima (American University)
"Syntactic Prediction and Accurate Application of Grammar in Language Comprehension: Evidence from the Processing of Backward Anaphoric Dependencies in Japanese"
5:30-6:00Open discussion 4: head-direction and processing: chair: Hirose, panelists: Scheepers, Bader, Fodor, Vasishth, Aoshima