Thursday, March 31, 2005

 

7:30 am

 

Registration tables open

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:50 am

Opening remarks by Tom Bever & Erin O'Bryan

 

 

 

Janet D. Fodor, CUNY, Chair

 

9:00 am

Time-course of semantic composition: The case of argument structure alternation

Maria Mercedes Piñango, Angela Strom-Webber, & Edgar Zurif

T-1

9:30 am

Processing negative polarity

Shravan Vasishth, Heiner Drenhaus, Douglas Saddy, & Richard Lewis

T-2

10:00 am

Separating syntactic and semantic reanalysis

Patrick Sturt

T-3

 

10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

 

  Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona, Chair  

11:00 am

The use of adjective ordering constraints in reference resolution

Daniel Grodner & Julie Sedivy

T-4

11:30 am

Semantic indeterminacy and metaphorical adjectives: Some "concrete" evidence

Seana Coulson & Christopher Lovett

T-5

12:00 pm

Defeasible reasoning

John Pollock (invited, with discussion by Tom Bever)

T-6

 

12:45 pm

 

Lunch Break

 

 

  Janet Nicol, University of Arizona, Chair  

2:00 pm

Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension

Manabu Arai, Roger P. G. van Gompel, & Christoph Scheepers

T-7

2:30 pm

Noun phrase structure priming within a sentence: The role of grammatical function and linear order

Alissa Melinger & Alexandra Cleland

T-8

3:00 pm

Don't swim, hop: The timecourse of disfluency processing

Karl G. D. Bailey & Fernanda Ferreira

T-9

 

3:30 pm

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

  LouAnn Gerken, University of Arizona, Chair  

4:00 pm

Twisted Tongues and Tongue Twisters: Ultrasound and the Study of Language

Diana Archangeli

T-10

4:25 pm

The experimental syntax server

Wayne Cowart, Michael Hammond, and James Myers

T-11

4:50 pm

Minimalist Program Parsing: Theory and experimental results

Sandiway Fong

T-12

5:15 pm

- 5: 40 pm

Prefer breadth to depth in the analysis of grammatical recursion

Terry Langendoen

T-13

 

6:15 pm

- 8: 15 pm

 

Poster Session A and Reception

 

 

   
Friday, April 1, 2005

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Chuck Clifton, Umass-Amherst, Chair

 

9:00 am

Partner-specific priming in language production

William S. Horton

F-1

9:30 am

Helping syntax out: How much do words do?

Agnieszka Konopka & Kathryn Bock

F-2

10:00 am

The role of animacy in relative clause production

Silvia Gennari, Jelena Mirkovic, & Maryellen MacDonald

F-3

 

10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

 

  Cecile McKee, University of Arizona, Chair  

11:00 am

The role of animacy in Japanese sentence production

Mikihiro Tanaka, Holly Branigan, & Martin Pickering

F-4

11:30 am

Production-complexity driven variation: Relativizer omission in non-subject-extracted relative clauses

T. Florian Jaeger and Tom Wasow

F-5

12:00 pm

Reference frame alignment in dialogue: The importance of the origin

Matthew E. Watson, Martin J. Pickering, & Holly P. Branigan

F-6

 

12:30 pm

 

Lunch Break

 

  Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester, Chair  

2:00 pm

A model of anticipation and early disambiguation in visual worlds

Marshall R. Mayberry, III, & Matthew W. Crocker

F-7

2:30 pm

Syntactic priming in comprehension: Evidence from eye-movements

Matthew J. Traxler & Martin J. Pickering

F-8

3:00 pm

The influence of lexical biases on eye-movements during unambiguous utterances: Disentangling linguistic and nonlinguistic effects in the visual-world paradigm

Jesse Snedeker & Malathi Thothathiri

F-9

 

3:30 pm

 

Coffee Break

 

 

  Ken Forster, University of Arizona, Chair  

4:00 pm

Homophone meaning effects in the visual world paradigm

Lillian Chen & Julie E. Boland

F-10

4:30 pm

Eye gaze facilitates word learning for adjectives

Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Chen Yu, Courtney A. Pooler, & Michael K. Tanenhaus

F-11

5:00 pm

Working memory in language processing and beyond

Evelina Fedorenko, Edward Gibson, & Douglas Rohde

F-12

 

6:00 pm

- 8: 00 pm

 

Poster Session B, Light Supper, and Open Bar

 

 

   
Saturday, April 2, 2005

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

  Dianne Bradley, CUNY, Chair  

9:00 am

Syntactic and lexical processing at the point of sentence wrap-up

Robin L. Hill & Roger P. G. van Gompel

S-1

9:30 am

Differences in the processing complexity of quantified NPs

Tessa Warren & Kathryn Russell

S-2

10:00 am

The source of the bias for longer filler-gap dependencies in Japanese

Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips, & Masaya Yoshida

S-3

 

10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Colin Phillips, University of Maryland, Chair

 

11:00 am

Processing different object cases: temporal and spatial issues

Ina Bornkessel, Brian McElree, Dietmar Roehm, Angela D. Friederici, & Matthias Schlesewsky

S-4

11:30 am

Off-line effects in relative clause attachment - A matter of individual preference?

Maren Heydel & Wayne S. Murray

S-5

12:00 pm

On the processing of subject vs. object relative clauses in Japanese: An ERP study

Mieko Ueno & Susan Garnsey

S-6

 

12:30 pm

 

Poster Session C and Lunch

 

 

  Merrill Garrett, University of Arizona, Chair  

2:30 pm

How contrastive is contrastive focus?

Katy Carlson, Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton, Jr., & Michael Walsh Dickey

S-7

3:00 pm

When heuristics clash with parsing routines: ERP evidence for conflict monitoring

Marieke van Herten, Herman H. J. Kolk, & Dorothee J. Chwilla

S-8

3:30 pm

Anaphor resolution within and across sentences: An ERP-study

Barbara Hemforth & Cheryl Frenck-Mestre

S-9

4:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

Non-robustness of syntax acquisition from n-grams: A cross-linguistic perspective

Xuân-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka, Lidiya Tornyova, William Gregory Sakas, & Janet Dean Fodor

S-10