Subject: sentence processing conference - schedule

the eighth annual cuny conference on human sentence processing march 16-18 , 1995 radisson hotel , 6555 e . speedway , tucson , az sponsors : university of arizona ( cognitive science program , dept . of psychology , dept . of linguistics , dean 's office ( social and behavioral sciences ) , social and behavioral sciences research institute ) , institute for research in cognitive science at the university of pennsylvania , university of rochester . the special session on prosodic effects on parsing is sponsored by nsf . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ = = program = = thursday , march 16 registration 8 : 15 - 8 : 45 8 : 45 welcoming remarks 9 : 00 brian mcelree & teresa griffith ( u . cal , irvine ) constraints on filling gaps : a time-course analysis . 9 : 25 lewis shapiro ( florida atlantic u . ) arild hestvik ( u . of stuttgart ) & kim luscher ( florida atlantic u . ) an on-line analysis of vp - ellipsis : syntactic reconstruction and semantic influence . 9 : 50 tracy love & david swinney ( ucsd ) on the nature of the search in coreferential processing . 10 : 15 kevin peterson , anthony sanford , & linda moxey ( u . glasgow ) anaphoric reference to differentially focused subsets of a quantified noun-phrase . 10 : 40 coffee break 11 : 10 neal pearlmutter , kathryn bock , and susan garnsey ( u . illinois ) subject - verb agreement processes in sentence comprehension . 11 : 35 christine sevald and susan garnsey ( u . illinois ) safe syntax : encapsulation of number-marking information in sentence comprehension . 12 : 00 celia jakubowicz and ch . faussart ( cnrs ) agreement phenomena in the processing of spoken french . 12 : 25 janet nicol ( u . arizona ) effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors . 12 : 50 lunch break 2 : 00 don mitchell ( u . exeter ) , fernando cuetos ( u . oviedo ) , martin corley ( u . exeter ) and marc brysbaert ( u . leuven ) the linguistic tuning hypothesis : further corpus and experimental evidence . 2 : 25 edward gibson , carson schutze , and ariel salomon ( mit ) the relationship between the frequency and the perceived complexity of linguistic structure . 2 : 50 suzanne stevenson ( rutgers ) reconciling constraint-based and structure-based explanations of syntactic preferences . 3 : 15 coffee break 3 : 45 john trueswell ( u . penn ) the role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution . 4 : 10 curt burgess & kevin lund ( u . cal , riverside ) extraction of high-dimensional semantics from large corpora and human syntactic processing constraints . 4 : 35 uli h . frauenfelder ( u . geneva ) , alain content ( ulb , bruxelles ) , jean - philippe goldman & christine meunier ( u . geneva ) . comparative sublexical statistics : the processing units debate . 5 : 30 - 7 : 00 - poster session i friday , march 17 special session on prosodic influences on parsing ( titles to be announced ) 8 : 30 stefanie shattuck - hufnagel & alice turk 9 : 10 wayne murray & sheila watt 9 : 45 shari speer ( northeastern u ) 10 : 15 fernanda ferreira ( msu ) 10 : 45 coffee break 11 : 15 nicholas nagel ( ucsd ) & lewis shapiro ( florida atlantic u ) prosodic influences on the processing of attachment ambiguities . 11 : 45 tadahisa kondo ( ntt basic research labs ) & reiko mazuka ( duke u . ) prosodic planning while reading aloud : on - line examination of japanese sentences . 12 : 15 merrill garrett ( u . arizona ) and roger wales ( u . melbourne ) commentary and panel discussion 1 : 00 lunch break 2 : 15 cyma van petten ( u . arizona ) , jill weckerly ( ucsd ) , heather mcisaac ( ubc ) , and marta kutas ( ucsd ) the impact of working memory capacity on the use of lexical and sentence-level semantic context : event - related brain potential evidence . 2 : 40 catherine harris ( boston u ) a corpora-based approach to sense-selection and contextual integration . 3 : 05 janet dean fodor ( cuny ) , weijia ni ( haskins ) , stephen crain ( u . maryland ) & donald shankweiler ( u . connecticut ) tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly . 3 : 30 coffee break 4 : 00 kathleen eberhard , michael tanenhaus , michael spivey - knowlton , and julie sedivy ( u . rochester ) . investigating the time-course of establishing reference : evidence for rapid incremental processing . 4 : 25 michael spivey - knowlton , michael tanenhaus , julie sedivy & kathleen eberhard ( u . rochester ) visual / situational context overrides local preference in pp - attachment ambiguity . 5 : 30 - 7 : 00 poster session ii saturday , march 18 9 : 25 richard lewis ( princeton ) a theory of grammatical but unacceptable embeddings . 9 : 50 maria babyonyshev ( mit ) processing inherently and structurally cased dps 10 : 15 patrick sturt & matthew crocker ( edinburgh ) monotonic parsing and reanalysis . 10 : 40 coffee break 11 : 10 julie e . boland ( osu ) understanding how they " saw her duck " : homographs in coherent text . 11 : 35 a . d . friederici ( mpi and freie u . ) , a . mecklinger , k . steinhauer & a . hahne ( freie u . ) processing violations of syntactic structure versus violations of syntactic preferences : evidence from erp studies . 12 : 00 susan garnsey , neal pearlmutter , elizabeth myers ( u . illinois ) , & maryellen macdonald ( usc ) the relative contributions of verb bias and plausibility to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences . 12 : 25 lars konieczny , barbara hemforth , & christoph scheepers ( u . freiberg ) pp - and np - attachment preferences differ according to verb-placement in german sentences . 12 : 50 lunch break 2 : 00 edith kaan & laurie stowe ( u . of groningen ) non - local subcategorization violations : the effect of distance and memory span . 2 : 25 colin brown , peter hagoort , & wietske vonk ( mpi ) on - line sentence processing : parsing preferences revealed by brain responses . 2 : 50 marica de vincenzi ( national research council roma ) syntactic analysis in sentence comprehension : effects of dependency types and grammatical constraints . 3 : 15 coffee break 3 : 45 martin pickering ( u . glasgow ) , holly branigan ( u . edinburgh ) , simon liversedge ( u . nottingham ) , andrew stewart ( u . sussex ) , thomas urbach , & ashley myler ( washington and lee u . ) exploring syntactic priming 4 : 10 michael anes , fernanda ferreira , & john henderson ( msu ) parallel structure effects in reading and listening . 4 : 35 kathleen ahrens & david swinney ( ucsd ) on the integration of verbs into sentential contexts : the effect of participant-role complexity in sentence processing . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ conference organizers : janet nicol , ken forster , and merrill garrett abstract review committee : andrew barss , tom bever , tom cornell , ken forster , susan garnsey , merrill garrett , louann gerken , ted gibson , wayne murray , janet nicol , david swinney , gabriella vigliocco ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ hotel information : the conference hotel is the radisson suite hotel , 6555 e speedway , tucson , az , 85710 . tel : ( 602 ) 721-7100 reservations can be made through radisson 's national system at 800-333 - 3333 . be sure to mention the cuny sentence processing conference when making your reservations . reservations made after february 15 will not be at the conference rate . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ how to get to the conference : 1 ) landing in tucson a taxi cab from the airport to the radisson will cost about $ 20 . ( this estimate came from yellow cab ) . bus . the arizona stage coach costs about $ 10 . interested persons should collect their luggage and then go to the arizona stagecoach desk on the baggage level of the airport next to hertz car rentals . no reservation required to go from the airport to the hotel , but a reservation is required to go to the airport . a reservation may be made at the airport , or by calling the following number : ( 602 ) 889-1000 . transportation for the handicapped to and from the tucson airport is available through handicar . reservations should be made in advance ( 602 881-3391 ) . the cost is $ 25 . 00 each way . upon arrival , passengers should call handicar to verify that the flight has come in . passengers bring one other person with them at no extra charge . 2 ) landing in phoenix the arizona shuttle service is a bus service that runs from the sky harbor airport in phoenix to a location near the radisson ( 5350 e . speedway ) . the cost is $ 19 . 00 each way . departures from the airport are every hour on the half hour from 5 : 30 am to 11 : 30 pm and from tucson , every hour on the hour from 4 : 00 am . to 9 : 00 pm . the trip takes approximately 2 hours . call ( 800 ) 888-2749 for further information . 3 ) driving to tucson . coming from north or west , take the speedway exit from i-10 . coming from the east , take the kolb exit from i-10 ( exit 275 ) . the radisson is on the north side of speedway , just east of wilmot . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = pre - registration form please pre-register . fees may be paid with check or money order payable to : sentence processing conference . we urge you to pre-register as soon as possible , but will accept pre-registration through march 15 . send payment to the following address : sentence processing conference psychology 312 university of arizona tucson , az 85721 student non - student preregistration : $ 10 $ 35 on - site : $ 20 $ 40 name : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ address : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ email : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ students ! there may be ( limited ) funds to assist student travel . if you are a registered student , you are eligible to receive some funding , if such funds are available . if you wish to apply , send us the following information before march 1 : your name , affiliation , year , and participation in the conference ( e . g . , you are a second author on a poster ) . your advisor should verify your student status .
