Wednesday, March 14, 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Registration desk open from 8:15 a.m., with light breakfast available
| Session 1 | 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. chaired by Gita Martohardjono (CUNY Graduate Center) |
| 9:00‒9:15 | Welcoming remarks ▪ Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center) |
| 9:15‒10:00 | Two interpretive systems for natural language? ▪ Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
| 10:00‒10:30 | Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: A visual world study ▪ Judith Köhne (University of Pennsylvania) & Vera Demberg (Saarland University) |
| 10:30‒11:00 | Presuppositions and projection in processing ▪ Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania) & Sonja Tiemann (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) |
| 11:00‒11:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. chaired by Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego) |
| 11:30‒12:00 | Convergence of speech rate: Interactive alignment beyond representation ▪ Ian R. Finlayson, Robin J. Lickley (Queen Margaret University), & Martin Corley (University of Edinburgh) |
| 12:00‒12:30 | Cost and implicature in word use: Testing predictions of a game-theoretic model of alignment ▪ Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh), Scott Seyfarth (University of California, San Diego), Brady Clark (Northwestern University), Gerhard Jaeger (University of Tübingen), & Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University) |
| 12:30‒1:00 | Factors that contribute to the use of perspective in referent identification ▪ Daniel Grodner, Maria Dalini, Sarah Pearlstein-Levy, & Andrew Ward (Swarthmore College) |
| 1:00‒2:15 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00‒2:15 | Workshop: Practical data analysis techniques for reading studies ▪ Marcus Johnson (SR-Research/EyeLink, Ottawa) |
| Session 3 | 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. chaired by Matthew Traxler (University of California, Davis) |
| 2:15‒2:45 | What and when can you fill a gap with something? ▪ Shevaun Lewis, Bradley Larson, & Dave Kush (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 2:45‒3:15 | The processing of backward sluicing ▪ Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Rebekah Ward, & Morgan Purrier (Northwestern University) |
| 3:15‒3:45 | Adjunct islands and the finiteness effect ▪ Dan Michel & Grant Goodall (University of California, San Diego) |
| 3:45‒4:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | 4:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. chaired by Shari Speer (The Ohio State University) |
| 4:15‒4:45 | Generating contrastive alternatives: Activation and suppression mechanisms ▪ E. Matthew Husband & Fernanda Ferreira (University of South Carolina) |
| 4:45‒5:15 | Effects of visual and discourse contexts and prosody on referential resolution ▪ Kiwako Ito (The Ohio State University), Chie Nakamura (Keio University), & Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN BSI) |
| 5:15‒5:45 | When accenting does not introduce alternatives: Discourse coherence and pronoun resolution ▪ Mindaugas Mozuraitis & Daphna Heller (University of Toronto) |
| 5:45‒6:30 | Intonation structure and the theory of grammar ▪ Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) |
| 6:30‒8:30 | Poster Session 1 (50 presentations), and Reception |
Thursday, March 15, 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Registration desk open from 8:15 a.m., with light breakfast available
| Session 5 | 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. chaired by T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) |
| 9:00‒9:30 | The adaptive nature of eye-movement control in linguistic tasks ▪ Michael Shvartsman, Richard Lewis, & Satinder Singh (University of Michigan) |
| 9:30‒10:00 | A computational model of cognitive influences on pronoun processing ▪ Jacolien van Rij, Hedderik van Rijn, & Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen) |
| 10:00‒10:30 | The role of hierarchical structure in syntactic dependency integration ▪ Peter Baumann (Northwestern University) |
| 10:30‒11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. chaired by Virginia Valian (Hunter College & Graduate Center, CUNY) |
| 11:00‒11:30 | Structural repetition in sentence production conditioned by verb semantic similarity ▪ Eunkyung Yi, Jean-Pierre Koenig, & Gail Mauner (University at Buffalo) |
| 11:30‒12:00 | Shared argument structure among bilinguals: Evidence from sentence reading and recall ▪ Ricardo de Souza (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Eva M. Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, City University of New York), & Mara Guimaraes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) |
| 12:00‒12:30 | Using structural priming to investigate linguistic representations underlying processing ▪ Martin J. Pickering & Holly P. Branigan (University of Edinburgh) |
| 12:30‒2:30 | Poster Session 2 (50 Presentations), and Light Lunch |
| Session 7 | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. chaired by Peter Gordon (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ▪ |
| 2:30‒3:00 | Early participant role commitments have their greatest impact on the integration of unpredictable role fillers ▪ Hongoak Yun, Gail Mauner, Jean-Pierre Koenig, & Douglas Roland (University at Buffalo) |
| 3:00‒3:30 | WH agreement and the timing of the unbounded dependency formation: A Chamorro perspective on predictive licensing and interpretation ▪ Matthew Wagers, Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz), & Manuel F. Borja (Inetnon Åmot yan Kutturan Natibu) |
| 3:30‒4:00 | Turning the ‘Dumb N400’ into the ‘Smart N400’: What role-reversed sentences tell us about the time course of predictions ▪ Wing-Yee Chow, Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, College Park), & Suiping Wang (South China Normal University) |
| 4:00‒4:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8 | 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. chaired by Dianne Bradley (CUNY Graduate Center) |
| 4:30‒4:45 | Conference organizers, Various |
| 4:45‒5:15 | Grammatical knowledge vs. syntactic processing in the human brain ▪ Evelina Fedorenko & Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 5:15‒5:45 | Quantifying parsing complexity as a function of grammar complexity ▪ Jonathan Brennan (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Sarah VanWagenen (Haifa & University of California, Los Angeles), & Edward P. Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| 5:45‒6:30 | Flexible processing and the design of grammar ▪ Ivan Sag (Stanford University) |
| 6:30 | Evening Free |
Friday, March 16, 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Registration desk open from 8:15 a.m., with light breakfast available
| Session 9 | 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. chaired by John Hale (Cornell University) |
| 9:00‒9:45 | Computing Minimalism: Simple doesn’t mean easy ▪ Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) |
| 9:45‒10:30 | On directionality of phrase structure building ▪ Cristiano Chesi (IUSS-Pavia & Università degli Studi di Siena) |
| 10:30‒11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 10 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. chaired by Eva Fernández (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY) |
| 11:00‒11:30 | Incremental development of incremental processing: Anticipatory interpretation of novel sentential combinations in adults and children. ▪ Arielle Borovsky (University of California, San Diego & Stanford University), Kim Sweeney (University of California, San Diego), Anne Fernald (Stanford University), & Jeff Elman (University of California, San Diego) |
| 11:30‒12:00 | Overgeneralization of distributional cues across syntactic contexts in non-native speech segmentation ▪ Annie Tremblay, Caitlin Coughlin, Jui Namjoshi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), & Elsa Spinelli (Université Pierre-Mendès France, CNRS) |
| 12:00‒12:30 | An ERP investigation of filler-gap processing in native and second language speakers ▪ Andrea Dallas, Gayle DeDe, & Janet Nicol (University of Arizona) |
| 12:30‒2:30 | Poster Session 3 (50 Presentations), and Light Lunch |
| Session 11 | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. chaired by Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center) |
| 2:30‒3:15 | Some core contested concepts ▪ Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 3:15‒4:00 | Fast Stuff and Slow Stuff: Is a unified theory desirable? ▪ Colin Phillips & Shevaun Lewis (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| 4:00‒4:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 12 | 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. chaired by Fernanda Ferreira (University of South Carolina) |
| 4:30‒5:00 | Spatial information and representations of word meaning: Accessing semantic size information during reading ▪ Renske Hoedemaker & Peter C. Gordon (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
| 5:00‒5:30 | Locality and anti-locality effects in German: Insights from relative clauses ▪ Jana Häussler (University of Potsdam) & Markus Bader (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| 5:30‒6:00 | A novel argument for the universality of parsing principles ▪ Nino Grillo & João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) |
| 6:00‒6:30 | The persistence of the initial misanalysis without pragmatic inference: Evidence from Japanese relative clause structure ▪ Chie Nakamura (Keio University & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) & Manabu Arai (The University of Tokyo & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) |
| 6:30 | Conference closes |
