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 8:15 | Registration & Coffee/Breakfast | 9:15 | Welcoming Remarks | Session 1, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m., Chair: Zenzi Griffin (Georgia Institute of Technology) | 9:30 | Julie 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 | 10:00 | Nicola Molinaro (University of Padova), Albert Kim (University of Washington) & Francesco Vespignani (University of Padova) • Number agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its outcome | 10:30 | Anna Hatzidaki, Martin J. Pickering & Holly P. Branigan (University of Edinburgh) • The construction of subject-verb agreement in sentence production by bilinguals | 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | Session 2, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Chair: Matthew Traxler (University of California, Davis) | 11:30 | Juhani 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 | 12:00 | Peter C. Gordon, Randall Hendrick & J. Scott Hajek (University of North Carolina) • Interpreting ambiguous pronouns: Sometimes it’s easier | 12:30 | Hamutal 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 | 1:00-2:30 | Lunch Break | Session 3, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., Chair: Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego) | 2:30 | Sarah 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 | 3:00 | Matthew E. Watson, Martin J. Pickering & Holly P. Branigan (University of Edinburgh) • Investigating reference frame categorisation using dialogue | 3:30 | Manami 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 | 4:00-4:30 | Coffee Break | Session 4, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Chair: Amy Weinberg (University of Maryland, College Park) | 4:30 | Tomoko Ishizuka (UCLA), Kentaro Nakatani (Konan University) & Edward Gibson (MIT) • Processing Japanese relative clauses in context | 5:00 | Chien-Jer Charles Lin & Thomas G. Bever (University of Arizona) • Chinese is no exception: Universal subject preference of relative clause processing | 5:30 | Chun-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 | 6:00-8:00 | Reception & 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 8:15 | Registration & Coffee/Breakfast | Session 1, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Chair: Richard Lewis (University of Michigan) | 9:00 | Whitney Tabor (University of Connecticut) • A unified, self-organizing model of garden path phenomena, center-embedding phenomena, and interference effects | 9:30 | Markus Bader & Jana Häussler (University of Konstanz) • On the proper place of frequency information within a model of garden-path recovery | 10:00 | Masako 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 | 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | Session 2, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Chair: Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) | 11:00 | Invited Speaker: Daniel Büring (UCLA) • Intonation for mind readers: The case of second occurrence focus | 11:45 | Scott Jackson (University of Arizona & University of Maryland at College Park) • Prosody and logical scope in English | 12:15 | Yukiko 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 | 12:45-2:45 | Lunch & Poster Session 2 | Session 3, 2:45 - 4:15 p.m., Chair: Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University) | 2:45 | Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo) • Missed cues: Speaker-hearer mismatch and variability | 3:15 | Johannes Schliesser, Sandra Pappert & Thomas Pechmann (University of Leipzig) • Case and prosody interact with argument structure expectations | 3:45 | Katy Carlson (Morehead State University), Charles Clifton, Jr. & Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts Amherst) • Effects of constituent length on boundary informativeness | 4:15-4:45 | Coffee Break | 4:45 | Announcements (CUNY 2007) | Session 4, 4:45 - 6:30 p.m., Chair: Matthew Crocker (Saarland University) | 5:00 | Kerstin Hadelich (Saarland University) & Stefan Baumann (University of Koeln) • Accent type and givenness in German scene descriptions: Evidence from multi-modal priming | 5:30 | Matthew Wagers & Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park) • Re-active filling | 6:00 | Andrea 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 10:00 | Registration | Session 1, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Chair: Thomas Wasow (Stanford University) | 10:15 | Invited Speaker: Mark Johnson (Brown University) • Parsing speech corpora | 11:00 | T. Florian Jaeger (Stanford University) • Syntactic persistence in real life (spontaneous speech) | 11:30 | Susanne Gahl (University of Illinois) • Is frequency a property of phonological forms? Evidence from spontaneous speech | 12:00-2:00 | Lunch & Poster Session 3 | Session 2, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Chair: Edward Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 2:00 | Ming Xiang, Brian W Dillon & Colin Phillips (University of Maryland) • Testing the strength of the spurious licensing effect for negative polarity items | 2:30 | Jason Varvoutis & Martin Hackl (Pomona College) • Parsing quantifiers in object position | 3:00 | Yi Ting Huang & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) • On-line interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantic-pragmatic interface | 3:30-4:00 | Coffee Break | Session 3, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Chair: Eva Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY) | 4:00 | Adrian 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 | 5:00 | Liane Wardlow Lane, Michelle Groisman & Victor S. Ferreira (University of California, San Diego) • Speakers’ control over leaking private information | 5:30 | Conference closes |
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