Poster Program
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* Invited speakers
Friday, September 21st
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration, Coffee & continental breakfast |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome 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" |
| 9:45-10:15 | Leticia Pablos (University of Reading) "Rich Agreement in Basque: how fronted auxiliaries guide the initial parsing of sentences" |
| 10:15-10:45 | Nobuyuki 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" |
| 10:45-11:05 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 : Processing 2 - chair: Susan Garnsey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| 11:05-11:35 | Masako Hirotani (Carleton University) and Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) "On-line Use of Prosodic Boundaries: ERP Evidence" |
| 11:35-12:05 | Petra 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" |
| 12:45-2:45 | Poster session, Lunch |
| Session 3 : Processing Chinese Relative clauses - chair: Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo) | |
| 2:45-3:15 | Chien-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" |
| 3:55-4:25 | Yowyu Brian Lin and Susan Garnsey (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Plausibility and the resolution of temporary ambiguity in relative clause comprehension in Mandarin" |
| 4:25-4:45 | Coffee Break |
| 4:45-5:15 | Open discussion 1: chair: Garnsey, panelists: Lin, Ng, Fodor, Lin |
| Session 4: Production - chair: Masako Hirotani (Carleton University) | |
| 5:15-5:45 | Noriko Iwasaki (University of California at Davis) "Incremental sentence production in Japanese: Observations from elicited speech errors in a picture description task" |
| 5:45-6:15 | Mikihiro 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
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee & continental breakfast |
| Session 5: Acquisition - chair: Jerry Packard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Jeong-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." |
| 10:10-10:40 | Adam Zawiszewski, Beatriz Fernández, and Itziar Laka (University of the Basque Country) "Native and non-native speakers process object-verb agreement: an ERP study" |
| 10:40-11:10 | Open discussion 2: chair: Packard, panelists: Shin, Lust, Zawiszewski |
| 11:10-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Corpus-based approach 1 - chair: Jeff Runner (University of Rochester) | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Douglas Roland, Carolyn O'meara, Hongoak Yun, and Gail Mauner (University at Buffalo) "Discourse context and English object relative clauses" |
| 12:00-12:30 | Hiroko Morioka and Kirk Baker (The Ohio State Universty) "Corpus analysis of Verbal Noun predicates in Japanese" |
| 12:30-1:00 | Fuyun Wu and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) "Subject Preference, Semantic Distance Hierarchy, and Syntactic/Lexical Cues: Relative Clauses in Chinese Corpus" |
| 1:00-2:10 | Lunch break |
| Session 7: Corpus-based approach 2 - chair: Doug Roland (University at Buffalo) | |
| 2:10-2:40 | Tadahisa 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" |
| 3:25-3:45 | Open discussion 3: chair: Roland, panelists: Kondo, Jaeger, Morioka |
| 3:45-4:10 | Coffee 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" |
| 5:30-6:00 | Open discussion 4: head-direction and processing: chair: Hirose, panelists: Scheepers, Bader, Fodor, Vasishth, Aoshima |