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A. Zukowski (CUNY Coordinator) cuny91 at prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
Fri Apr 19 08:36:05 EDT 1991


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LANGUAGE SCIENCES WEEKEND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER


THERE WILL BE THREE CONFERENCES ON LANGUAGE MAY 9-12 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.  

ANNUAL CUNY SENTENCE PROCESSING CONFERENCE
ANNUAL JAPANESE GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
ROCHESTER PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE ON BELIEF AND BELIEF ATTRIBUTION

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			SCHEDULES FOLLOW


       1991 CUNY Sentence Processing Conference Schedule
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THURSDAY, MAY 9

     12:55 -1:00       Opening Remarks
     1:00 - 1:35       Ivan Sag
			"Taking Performance Seriously:  A Plea for Constraint"
     1:35 - 2:00       Weijia Ni & Stephen Crain
			"Avoiding Garden Paths"
     2:00 - 2:25       Gerry Altmann, Alan Garnham, Yvette Dennis, 
		             & A. Henstra
   		        "Eye Movements Controlled: Evidence For and
			 Against Context Effects"
     2:25 - 2:50       Don Mitchell, Martin Corley, & Alan Garnham
			"Biases and Influences in Human Sentence Parsing:
			 Evidence for the Precedence of "Pure" Syntactic
			 Strategies"
     2:50 - 3:15       Maryellen C. MacDonald
			"Pre- and Post-ambiguity Cues for Syntactic
			 Ambiguity Resolution"
     3:15 - 4:00       Break
     4:00 - 5:30       Japanese Psycholinguistics Symposium
                         (Reiko Mazuka, Mineharu Nakayama,
                          Yoshi Otsu, Peter Culicover)
     5:50 - 7:30       Supper
     7:30 - 9:30       Connectionism and Models of Language
                          (Paul Smolensky, Gary Dell, Jerry Feldman)
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FRIDAY, MAY 10

     8:30 - 9:00       Coffee
     9:00 - 9:25       Janet Nicol, Cecile McKee, & Dana McDaniel
			"The Development of the Coreference Processor"
     9:25 - 9:50       Howard Kurtzman, Raul Elias-Cintron, & Rocio Aramburu
			"Probe Recognition in Spanish:  Effects of NP-trace
			 and Agreement Morphology"
     9:50 - 10:15      Karen Emmorey & Diane Lillo-Martin
			"Processing Spatial Anaphora:  Referent Activation
			with Overt and Null Pronouns in American Sign Language"
     10:15 - 10:40     Kay Bock & Kathleen M. Eberhard
			"The Meaning, Sound, and Syntax of English Number
			 Agreement"
     10:40 - 11:00     Break
     11:00 - 12:30     Second Language Acquisition Symposium
                          (Peter Jusczyk, Jacques Mehler, Elissa
                           Newport)
     12:30 - 2:00      Lunch
     2:00 - 2:25       Di Bradley
			"Lexical and Post-Lexical Contributions to Priming"
     2:25 - 2:50       (To Be Announced)
     2:50 - 3:15       Michael Brent
			"Automatic Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames
			 from Untagged, Free-Text Corpora"
     3:15 - 3:40       Mary Potter
			"Word Perception in Sentence Context:  Back to the 
			 Future"
     3:40 - 4:00       Break
     4:00 - 5:30       Conditionals Symposium
                          (William Lycan, Phillip Johnson-Laird)


     5:30 - 7:30       POSTERS

Tod A. Bassham & Jill N. Beckman
	"The Parsing of Tough- and Too-Constructions:  Implications
	 for Models of Gap-Location"
Tom Bever, Cornell Juliano, & Andrea Zukowski
	"Improvement of Text Readability Through Applied Psycholinguistics"
Elizabeth R. Blackmer
	"Implications of the Timing of Rapid Multiple Repairs in
	 Spontaneous Speech"
Giuseppe Cappelli, Anna Maccari & Lucia Pfanner
	"A System for Semi-Automatical Treatment of Child Morphology"
Soon Ae Chun
	"Verbal Suffixes and Control Interpretation in Korean"
Mark Coulson
	"Processing Ambiguous Anaphora"
Aaron Halpern
	"Priming in VP Anaphora"
Gregory Hickok, Enriqueta Canseco, Edgar Zurif, & Jane Grimshaw
	"Modularity in Locating Wh-gaps"
Dan Jurafsky
	"An On-Line Model of Human Sentence Interpretation"
Sheila Meltzer
	"(How) Does Discourse Pragmatics Influence Processing of
	 Phonologically Null Pronouns?"
Gail Mauner
	"Syntactic Context and the Interpretation of Verb Phrase Anaphors"
Neal Perlmutter
	"Effects of Pragmatic Cues on Syntactic Ambiguity Processing"
Justin Peterson & Dorrit Billman
	"I'm with Her and the Butler Did It with the Knife"
Susan M. Powers
	"'I Give Up':  Children's Processing of Sentences Containing
	 Verb Particles"
Leslie Re, Harriet Taber, & Janet D. Fodor
	"Reconciling Methodological Issues in Empty Category Processing"
Vincent J. Samar
	"Be is a Raising Verb:  Psycholinguistic Evidence"
Yoshinori Sasaki
	"Development of Sentence Processing Strategies in English and
	 Japanese as Foreign Languages:  An Analysis Based on the 
	 Competition Model"
Jan C. Scholtes
	"Kohonen's Self Organizing Map Applied Towards Natural Language
	 Processing"
Julie Sedivy
	"The Use of Thematic Relations in Gap-Filling"
L. P. Shapiro, H. N. Nagel, & B. A. Levine
	"Verb Frame Preferences and Sentence Processing:
	 Implications for a Model of Parsing"
Ron Smyth & Kumiko Murasugi
	"Children's Use of Agreement Clues to Relative Clause Attachment"
Laurie A. Stowe, Peter W. Culicover, Michael Torello, Robert Angel,
	& Tod Bassham



     7:30 - 9:30       Banquet
     9:30 -	       Festivities

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SATURDAY, MAY 11

     9:00 - 9:30       Coffee
     9:30 - 10:15      Susan Garnsey - ERP Tutorial
     10:15 - 10:40     Rob Kluender & Marta Kutas
			"Evidence for Lexical and Syntactic Processing Effects
			 in Wh-Islands"
     10:40 - 11:00     Break
     11:00 - 1:00      Reading Symposium
                          (Marcel Just, Mark Seidenberg, Gail
                           McKoon)
     1:00 - 2:00       Lunch
     2:00 - 2:25       Janet Dean Fodor
			"Empty Categories at S-Structure and PF"
     2:25 - 2:50       Andrew Barss
         	       "The Grammar of Antecedence and Antecedent Reactivation"
     2:50 - 3:15       Martin Pickering & Guy Barry
			"Gap-Free Processing and the Resolution of Ambiguities"
     3:15 - 4:00       Edward Gibson
			"A Computational Treatment of Processing Overload"
     4:00 - 4:05       Break
     4:05 - 5:35       Lexical Concepts Symposium
                          (Frank Keil, James Hampton)


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			The Rochester Workshop 
		on Japanese Linguistics, Universal Grammar,
     and Their Implications to Language Pedagogy and Human Cognition
			(tentative schedule)
     ---------------------------------------------------------------
			

Friday, May 10
--------------

9.00-9.15    Opening Remarks
9.15-10.15   On Scrambling
             Naoko Nemoto, University of Connecticut
10.15-10.30  Break
10.30-11.30  Scrambling and A-chains
             Shigeru Miyagawa, Ohio State University
11.30-12.30  Scrambling and the FOCUS Interpretation
             Ayumi Ueyama, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
12.30-2.15   Lunch
2.15-3.15    Focused Pronouns
             Richard Larson, SUNY Stony Brook
3.15-4.15    Subject-to-Object Raising, ECM
             and the Major Object in Japanese
             Hojime Hoji, USC
4.15-4.30    Break
4.30-5.30    The Syntax of Answers:  A Comparative Approach
             Itziar Laka, University of Rochester
7.30-9.30    Banquet (with CUNY Conference participants)


Saturday, May 11
----------------

9.45-10.45   Reanalyzing Reanalysis
             Natsuko Tsujimura, University of Illinois
10.45-11.45  Title TBA
             Shige-Yuki Kuroda, UC San Diego
11.45-2.00   Lunch
2.00-3.00    On Passive
             Hiroto Hoshi, University of Connecticut
3.00-4.00    De-Passivization
             Yoshihisa Kitagawa, University of Rochester
4.00-4.15    Break
4.15-5.15    Two Types of Inflection
             David Pesetsky, MIT


Sunday, May 12
--------------

10.00-11.00  Negative Polarity Items and Floating Quantifiers
             Naoya Fujita, University of Rochester
11.00-12.00  Dissussion Session
             1) Comments on Nemoto, Miyagawa, and Ueyama
                Hiroaki Tada, MIT
             2) Comments on Larson
                Shin Watanabe,USC



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    The Univerisity of Rochester Department of Philosphy's Conference on 
			Belief and Belief Attribution
    				May 11-12, 1991
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Saturday, May 11
----------------

9:30    Robert Stalnaker		"On Twin Earth"
11:00   Ernest LePore			"Holism & Belief"
			--lunch--
2:00    William Lycan			"A New Argument for
					the Representational Theory
					of Thinking"
3:00    Mark Crimmins			"Tacitness Doesn't Make a Difference


Sunday, May 12
--------------

9:30    James Higginbotham		"Belief & Logical Form"
11:00   Scott Soames			"Attitudes & Anaphora"



Information about the conferences may be requested
from the following sources:

CUNY:   Andrea Zukowski      (cuny91 at prodigal.psych.rochester.edu)
	Psychology Department
	University of Rochester
	Rochester, NY 14627
	(716) 275-0754
	(716) 275-8724

Japanese Linguistics, UG Workshop:

	Yoshi Kitagawa	     (ykit%uorvm.bitnet at db1.cc.rochester.edu)
	Foreign Languages, Literature, & Linguistics
	University of Rochester
	Rochester, NY 14627
	(716) 275-4298
        (716) 275-4252

Belief and Belief Attribution Conference:

	David Braun	     (dbrn at uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
	Department of Philosophy
	Univerisity of Rochester
	Rochester, NY 14627
	(716) 275-4105


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