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Chair:
Edward Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 9:00 |
Douglas Roland (University of Colorado,
Boulder) • Predicting verb subcategorization from the semantic context preceding the verb |
| 9:30 |
Fabrizio Costa, Paolo Frasconi (University of Florence), Patrick Sturt (University of Glasgow) & Vincenzo Lombardo (University of
Turin) • Exploring the effect of experience on a recursive neural network model of structural preferences |
| 10:00 |
John Hale (Johns Hopkins
University) • The information conveyed by words in sentences |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair:
Reiko Mazuka (Duke University) |
| 11:00 |
Elsi Kaiser & John C. Trueswell (University of
Pennsylvania) • A new
'look' in the processing of non-canonical word orders: Anticipating
upcoming referents on the basis of discourse status |
| 11:30 |
Edson T. Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) & Shoichi Takahashi (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) • Typing mismatch effects in the processing of subject wh-phrases in Japanese |
| 12:00 |
Sachiko
Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg (University of Maryland, College
Park) • Active filler effects in Japanese wh-scrambling constructions |
| 12:30 |
Business Meeting |
| 12:45 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
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Chair:
Helen Cairns (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY) |
| 2:00 |
Anne Fernald (Stanford
University) • Learning to listen for meaning: How infants develop expectations about what's coming next in speech |
| 2:30 |
Karin
Stromswold, Janet Eisenband, Edward Norland & Jill Ratzan (Rutgers
University) • Tracking the acquisition and processing of English passives: Using acoustic cues to disambiguate actives and passives |
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3:00
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Invited Paper
Lila R. Gleitman, Felicia Hurewitz (University of Pennsylvania), Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University), Kirsten Thorpe (Stanford University) & John C. Trueswell (University of
Pennsylvania) • A probabilistic multiple-constraint theory of parsing development
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| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Gail
Mauner (State University of New York at Buffalo) |
| 4:00 |
Julie Sedivy (Brown
University) • Informativity expectations in on-line reference comprehension |
| 4:30 |
William Badecker (Johns Hopkins
University) • Facing the problems of producing language in increments |
| 5:00 |
Todd R. Haskell (University of Southern California) & Maryellen C. MacDonald (University of Wisconsin at Madison
) • Proximity does matter: Evidence for distributional effects in the production of subject-verb agreement |
| 5:30 |
Conference closes |
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