POSTER SESSION 2

Friday, March 24, 12:45-2:45, Concourse Level Lobby and Break-Out Rooms

Catherine Anderson (McMaster University), Gloria Goodwill-Aelick (McGill University), Megan Keilty, Anna Luu, SunHee Park, Sebastien Plante, Irena Radisevic, Pauline Seguban & Laura Watson (McMaster University) • Prosody makes good-enough representations better (or worse?)

Petra Augurzky (University of Marburg) Ina Bornkessel (MPI of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig), Thomas Pechmann (University of Leipzig) & Matthias Schlesewsky (University of Marburg) • The temporal availability of distinct prosodic cues during sentence comprehension - ERP evidence from German RC attachment

Mara Breen (MIT), Laura Dilley (Ohio State University), Edward Gibson (MIT) & Marti Bolivar (MIT) • Advances in prosodic annotation: A test of inter-coder reliability for the RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) and ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) transcription systems

Petra Burkhardt (University of Marburg) • The given-new distinction: How context and definiteness impact referential interpretation

Katy Carlson (Morehead State University), Lyn Frazier, & Charles Clifton, Jr. (University of Massachusetts Amherst) • Pitch accents affect ambiguity resolution

Armanda Costa (University of Lisbon), Marcus Maia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Eva Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY) & Maria do Carmo Lourenço-Gomes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) • Early and late preferences in relative clause attachment in Brazilian and European Portuguese

H. Wind Cowles (University of Florida) & Victor S. Ferreira (UC San Diego) • Beyond accessibility: Topichood and production

Gayle DeDe (Boston University), David Caplan (Massachusetts General Hospital) & Gloria Waters (Boston University) • Effects of prosody and transitivity biases in auditory syntactic ambiguity resolution

Timothy Desmet (Ghent University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Dan Grodner (University of Rochester) • Modifiability and restrictiveness

Suzanne Dikker (New York University) & Peter Indefrey (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) • Disentangling incremental and top-down parsing: Experimental evidence from VO/OV word order patterns in code-switching

Jantien Donkers & Laurie Stowe (University of Groningen) • Which is costly. Discourse-linking versus phrasal complexity during wh-question processing

Paul E. Engelhardt, Alena G. Patsenka, Andrea P. Francis & Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University) • The effects of visual and prosodic information on spoken language comprehension

C. Frenck-Mestre (CNRS, Université de Provence), A. Foucart (Université de Provence, University of Edinburgh) J. McLaughlin & L. Osterhout (University of Washington) • The effect of phonological realization of inflectional morphology on verbal agreement in French: Evidence from ERPs

Yael Fuerst (Yale University), Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University) & Ofer Fein (The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo) • Default interpretation of negation and the question of suppression

Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko & Mara Breen (MIT) • Processing extraposed structures in English: grammatical and processing factors

Nicolas Guilliot (University of Nantes) • Reconstruction: a plea for Dynamic Syntax

Barbara Hemforth, Caterina Petrone, Mariapaola d'Imperio, Joël Pynte (Université d'Aix en Provence), Saveria Colonna (Université de Paris 8) & Lars Konieczny (Universität Freiburg) • Length effects in PP-attachment: Prosody or pragmatics?

Hyekyung Hwang & Amy J. Schafer (University of Hawai'i, Manoa) • Native speakers and second language learners use fine-grained prosodic distinctions in parsing early closure sentences

Kiwako Ito & Shari R. Speer (Ohio State University, Columbus) • Intonational effects in the comprehension of discourse contrast

Gunnar Jacob (University of Dundee), Roger van Gompel (University of Dundee) & Pienie Zwitserlood (University of Münster) • The role of L1 syntactic knowledge during L2 sentence processing: Evidence for a facilitatory effect

T. Florian Jaeger (Stanford University), Evelina Fedorenko (MIT) & Edward Gibson (MIT) • Anti-locality effects without sentence-final verbs: Even in English longer distance can cause faster processing

Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) • Investigating effects of topic and focus in the presence and absence of pronouns

Jieun Kiaer (King's College London) • Prosody rescues sandwiched dative in Korean

Albert Kim (University of Washington), Lee Osterhout (University of Washington) & Nicola Molinaro (University of Padova) • P600 effects elicited by non-grammatical linguistic anomalies: Evidence for a general processing response to orthographic, phonological, and syntactic anomalies

Pia Knoeferle & Matthew W. Crocker (Saarland University) • The mechanism(s) underlying parallelism: eye-tracking coordinate structures in German

Lars Konieczny & Daniel Müller (University of Freiburg) • Local syntactic coherences in sentence processing

Anuenue Kukona & Whitney Tabor (University of Connecticut) • Intermediacy of Grammatical Representation:  Evidence from Spectrographic Analysis of Sentences Read Out Loud

Monique Lamers, Peter Hagoort & Helen de Hoop (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) • Getting the arguments right: the interaction between syntactic and semantic word order preferences in sentence processing

Deryle Lonsdale, Jamison Cooper-Leavitt, Warren Casbeer, Rebecca Madsen & LaReina Hingson (Brigham Young University) • An incremental minimalist parser

José Olimpio Magalhães (Federal University of Minas Gerais, CNPq) & Marcus Maia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, CNPq) • Implicit Prosody effects on the attachment of attributes to NPs in Brazilian Portuguese

Andrea Martin & Brian McElree (New York University) • Distance of integration and antecedent complexity in the online interpretation of VP-ellipsis

Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute & Duke University) & Yuko Tanaka (Kyushu University) • Children can be better than adults at using prosody to resolve syntactic ambiguity: Japanese children's use of prosody in the interpretation of prenominal modifiers

Juliana Meyohas (Concordia University), Marcus Maia (UFRJ) & Roberto de Almeida (Concordia University) • Bilingual relative clause attachment. Are there L1 and L2 processing differences?

Jerry Packard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zheng Ye & Xiaolin Zhou (Peking University) • ERP correlates of filler-gap integration costs in Mandarin

Kevin B. Paterson (University of Leicester), Simon P. Liversedge (University of Durham), & Ruth Filik (University of Glasgow) • Focus assignment in reading

Nikole D. Patson, Emily Swensen, Nicole Moon & Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University) • Individual differences in syntactic reanalysis

Joël Pynte & Barbara Hemforth (CNRS & University of Provence) • Implicit prosody effects in silent reading: Evidence from French

Maren Schmidt-Kassow & Sonja A. Kotz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) • What's beat got to do with it? The influence of meter on syntactic processing

Barbara Schulz (University of Hawai'i & University of Maryland) • What does the stop-making-sense task show how wh-scope-marking questions are processed in English?

Amit Shaked (Graduate Center, CUNY) • Patterns of prosodic phrasing in disambiguated Hebrew nominals: A Post-to-Times study

Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands, and St.Petersburg State University, Russia) • Processing of Scrambling in Russian: the Role of Discourse Context

Britta Stolterfoht (University of Leipzig), Lyn Frazier & Charles Clifton, Jr. (University of Massachusetts) • Information-structural constraints on word order in processing English

Celia Teira & Jose M. Igoa (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) • Prosodic disambiguation of relative clauses in sentence production in Spanish

Robert Thornton (Pomona College) • Contextual expectations in modification ambiguities

Damon Tutunjian & Julie Boland (University of Michigan) • Sentential focus affects visual attention toward potential verb arguments

Michael Wagner (Cornell University), John Kraemer, and Ted Gibson (MIT) • Encoding and Retrieving Syntactic Structure with Prosodic Phrasing

Peter Ward (University of Glasgow) & Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) • The influence of memory load on heuristic interpretation processes

Tessa Warren (University of Pittsburgh), Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam), Masako Hirotani (Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) & Heiner Drenhaus (University of Potsdam) • Licensor strength and locality effects in negative polarity licensing

Thomas Weskott, Robin Hörnig (University of Potsdam), Elsi Kaiser (USC Los Angeles), Caroline Féry, Gisbert Fanselow, Sabine Kern & Reinhold Kliegl (University of Potsdam) • Information structure and the anticipation of referents: Effects of  word order and intonation

Elizabeth Wonnacott (University of Rochester) &  Duane G. Watson (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign) • CHILDREN use emphasis TOO: The use of acoustic prominence in four year olds

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