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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
WE HAVE CRASH SITES, TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
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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)
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Friday, May 10
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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
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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
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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
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Saturday, May 11
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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
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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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