The 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
March 23-25, CUNY Graduate Center; 365 Fifth Avenue; New York, NY

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 23

Paper Sessions, 9:15-6:00, Proshansky Auditorium (Thursday paper abstracts)
Poster Session, 6:00-8:00, Concourse Level Lobby (Thursday poster abstracts)

From 8:15Registration & Coffee/Breakfast
9:15Welcoming Remarks
Session 1, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m., Chair: Zenzi Griffin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
9:30Julie Franck (University of Geneva), Ulrich H. Frauenfelder (University of Geneva) & Luigi Rizzi (University of Sienna and University of Geneva) • The role of hierarchical structure in agreement interference
10:00Nicola Molinaro (University of Padova), Albert Kim (University of Washington) & Francesco Vespignani (University of Padova) • Number agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its outcome
10:30Anna Hatzidaki, Martin J. Pickering & Holly P. Branigan (University of Edinburgh) • The construction of subject-verb agreement in sentence production by bilinguals
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
Session 2, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Chair: Matthew Traxler (University of California, Davis)
11:30Juhani Järvikivi (University of Turku and University of Dundee), Roger P.G. van Gompel (University of Dundee) & Jukka Hyönä (University of Turku) • The use of thematic role information during pronoun resolution: A visual-world eye-movement study
12:00Peter C. Gordon, Randall Hendrick & J. Scott Hajek (University of North Carolina) • Interpreting ambiguous pronouns: Sometimes it’s easier
12:30Hamutal Kreiner (University of Glasgow), Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) & Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow) • The time course of lexical vs. stereotypical gender processing in reference resolution:  Evidence from eye-movement
1:00-2:30Lunch Break
Session 3, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., Chair: Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego)
2:30Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Christine Gunlogson, Duane Watson, Carol Faden & Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) • Perspective matters during on-line production and interpretation of questions and replies in unscripted conversation
3:00Matthew E. Watson, Martin J. Pickering & Holly P. Branigan (University of Edinburgh) • Investigating reference frame categorisation using dialogue
3:30Manami Sato, Amy J. Schafer & Benjamin K. Bergen (University of Hawai'i, Manoa) • Effects of picture perception on the expression of abstract concepts in sentence production
4:00-4:30Coffee Break
Session 4, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Chair: Amy Weinberg (University of Maryland, College Park)
4:30Tomoko Ishizuka (UCLA), Kentaro Nakatani (Konan University) & Edward Gibson (MIT) • Processing Japanese relative clauses in context
5:00Chien-Jer Charles Lin & Thomas G. Bever (University of Arizona) • Chinese is no exception: Universal subject preference of relative clause processing
5:30Chun-chieh Natalie Hsu (University of Delaware), Felicia Hurewitz (University of Delaware) & Colin Phillips (University of Maryland) • Contextual and syntactic cues for head-final relative clauses in Chinese
6:00-8:00Reception & Poster Session 1

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

Paper Sessions, 9:00-5:30, Proshansky Auditorium (Friday paper abstracts)
Poster Session, 12:45-2:45, Concourse Level Lobby (Friday poster abstracts)

From 8:15Registration & Coffee/Breakfast
Session 1, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Chair: Richard Lewis (University of Michigan)
9:00Whitney Tabor (University of Connecticut) A unified, self-organizing model of garden path phenomena, center-embedding phenomena,  and interference effects
9:30Markus Bader & Jana Häussler (University of Konstanz) On the proper place of frequency information within a model of garden-path recovery
10:00Masako Hirotani, Ina Bornkessel, Korinna Eckstein & Angela D. Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Thematic role revision in Japanese: An auditory ERP investigation of passive and causative constructions
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
Session 2, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Chair: Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
11:00Invited Speaker: Daniel Büring (UCLA) Intonation for mind readers: The case of second occurrence focus
11:45Scott Jackson (University of Arizona & University of Maryland at College Park) Prosody and logical scope in English
12:15Yukiko Koizumi (Graduate Center, CUNY), Dianne Bradley (Graduate Center, CUNY), Eva M. Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY) & Janet Dean Fodor (Graduate Center, CUNY) Explaining the preference for narrow-scope negation in not-because sentences
12:45-2:45Lunch & Poster Session 2
Session 3, 2:45 - 4:15 p.m., Chair: Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University)
2:45Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo) Missed cues: Speaker-hearer mismatch and variability
3:15Johannes Schliesser, Sandra Pappert & Thomas Pechmann (University of Leipzig) Case and prosody interact with argument structure expectations
3:45Katy Carlson (Morehead State University), Charles Clifton, Jr. & Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Effects of constituent length on boundary informativeness
4:15-4:45Coffee Break
4:45Announcements (CUNY 2007)
Session 4, 4:45 - 6:30 p.m., Chair: Matthew Crocker (Saarland University)
5:00Kerstin Hadelich (Saarland University) & Stefan Baumann (University of Koeln) Accent type and givenness in German scene descriptions: Evidence from multi-modal priming
5:30Matthew Wagers & Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) Re-active filling
6:00Andrea Santi & Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University) An fMRI study of parasitic gaps: Uncovering the subprocesses of filler-gap dependencies

SATURDAY, MARCH 25

Paper Sessions, 10:15-5:30, Proshansky Auditorium (Saturday paper abstracts)
Poster Session, 12:00-2:00, Concourse Level Lobby (Saturday poster abstracts)

From 10:00Registration
Session 1, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Chair: Thomas Wasow (Stanford University)
10:15Invited Speaker: Mark Johnson (Brown University) Parsing speech corpora
11:00T. Florian Jaeger (Stanford University) Syntactic persistence in real life (spontaneous speech)
11:30Susanne Gahl (University of Illinois) Is frequency a property of phonological forms? Evidence from spontaneous speech
12:00-2:00Lunch & Poster Session 3
Session 2, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Chair: Edward Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:00Ming Xiang, Brian W Dillon & Colin Phillips (University of Maryland) Testing the strength of the spurious licensing effect for negative polarity items
2:30Jason Varvoutis & Martin Hackl (Pomona College) Parsing quantifiers in object position
3:00Yi Ting Huang & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) On-line interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantic-pragmatic interface
3:30-4:00Coffee Break
Session 3, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Chair: Eva Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
4:00Adrian Staub & Charles Clifton, Jr. (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Effects of a word's status as a predictable phrasal head on lexical decision and eye movements
4:30

Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah (University of Maryland, College Park) Relation between temporal adverbs and verb morphology in agrammatic aphasia

5:00Liane Wardlow Lane, Michelle Groisman & Victor S. Ferreira (University of California, San Diego) Speakers’ control over leaking private information
5:30Conference closes

 

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