ON-LINE METHODS IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE PROCESSING
March 21-22, 2006

CUNY Graduate Center; 365 Fifth Avenue; New York, NY

 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
(times are tentative)

Abstracts for spoken presentations [PDF]
List of poster presentations
Abstracts for poster presentations [PDF]

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2006
8:00–9:00Registration and Breakfast
9:00–9:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
PANEL 1: REACTION-TIME METHODS
9:15–10:15

Behavioral methods for investigating morphological and syntactic processing in children • Harald Clahsen (University of Essex), Invited Speaker

10:15–10:45

Development of sentence context use: When and how do children know that tag is a label and not a game? • Maya M. Khanna & Julie E. Boland (University of Michigan) and Michael J. Cortese (College of Charleston)

10:45–11:15Coffee Break
11:15–11:45Relative clause processing by Italian children: A self-paced listening study • Arosio Fabrizio, Maria Teresa Guasti, Flavia Adani (Universitΰ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
11:45–12:15Language processing in children as measured using self-paced reading and listening • Edward Gibson (MIT), Mara Breen (MIT), Susan Rozen (Boston University) & Douglas Rohde (Google)
12:15–1:30Lunch Break
PANEL 2: FREE-VIEWING EYE-TRACKING
1:30–2:30The use of eye movements to study the development of spoken language comprehension • John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania), Invited Speaker
2:30–3:00Can children overcome lexical biases? The role of the referential scene • Evan Kidd, Andrew Stewart, & Ludovica Serratrice (The University of Manchester)
3:00–3:30Putting first things last: A cross-linguistic investigation of the developing sentence processing mechanic • Youngon Choi & John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania)
3:30–4:00

Coffee Break

4:00–4:30Spoken-word recognition in Russian preschoolers • Irina Sekerina (College of Staten Island & Graduate Center, CUNY)
4:30–5:00The processing of sentences containing the focus particle auch by German adults and 4-year-olds: An eye-tracking-Study • F. Berger (University of Potsdam), A. Mόller (Humboldt University Berlin), B. Hφhle (University of Potsdam) & J. Weissenborn (Humboldt University Berlin)
5:00–5:30Using structural priming to investigate children's early grammatical representations • Malathi Thothathiri & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)
POSTER SESSION
6:00 –8:00VIEW LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2006
PANEL 3: EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS AND NEUROIMAGING
9:00–10:00Event-related brain potentials as a window to children's language processing: From syllables to sentences • Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences), Invited Speaker
10:00– 10:30Word recognition in continuous speech by 7-month-old infants • Valesca Kooijman (F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Peter Hagoort (F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) & Anne Cutler (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
10:30–11:00Processing of sentence-level prosody in 4-year-old children: ERP responses to intonational phrasing • Claudia Maennel, Ann Pannekamp & Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
11:00–11:30Coffee Break
11:30–12:00

ERP investigations in typically developing and language-impaired children reveal a domain-specific neural correlate for syntactic dependencies • Heather K. J. van der Lely (University College London) & Elisabeth Fonteneau (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

12:00–12:30Speech perception recruits frontal cortex during a pivotal period of language acquisition • Elizabeth Redcay (University of California San Diego), Frank Haist (University of California San Diego), Eric Courchesne (University of California San Diego & Children's Hospital Research Center San Diego)
12:30–1:30Lunch Break
1:30–2:30Exploring the relationship between environment, proficiency, and brain organization for language in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds • Eric Pakulak and Helen Neville (University of Oregon), Invited Speakers
PANEL 4: PREFERENTIAL LOOKING PARADIGM
2:30–3:00Online speech processing efficiency in infancy is related both to vocabulary growth and to school-age language accomplishments • Virginia A. Marchman & Anne Fernald (Stanford University)
3:00–3:30Learning to listen ahead in English and Spanish: Infants use multiple linguistic and non-linguistic cues in online sentence interpretation • Anne Fernald, Renate Zangl, Kirsten Thorpe, Nereyda Hurtado, Casey Williams (Stanford University)
3:30–4:00Coffee Break
4:00–4:30Uncovering early grammatical knowledge: Different methods and measures capture specific aspects of infants' linguistic processing competence • Yarden Kedar (Cornell University)
4:30–5:00When one cue is better than two: Syntactic vs. lexical information in infant verb learning • Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland), Ann Bunger, Erin Leddon and Sandra Waxman (Northwestern University)
CLOSING REMARKS
5:00–6:00A Peek at the Past: A Glimpse into the Future • Helen Smith Cairns (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY), Invited Speaker

 

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Workshop organizers:
Irina A. Sekerina, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY
Eva M. Fernαndez, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

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Last update: 09/25/2006

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0518438. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.