Subject: congress on storage & computation in linguistics 1998

in this message we ask your attention for the utrecht congress on storage and computation in linguistics , organized october 19th - october 21st 1998 ( monday through wednesday ) by the utrecht institute of linguistic ots , at the occasion of its 10th anniversary . keynote speaker is ray jackendoff ( what 's in the lexicon ? ) . other invited speakers are : frans zwarts ( negation , temporal connectives and nonveridicality ) , ed keenan & ed stabler ( language invariance and language learnability ) , jan koster ( the uniformity of grammar ) , john ohala ( on the origin of the processes creating phonological varaints ) , geert booij ( lexical storage and phonological change ) , harald clahsen ( storage and computation of language in children with williams syndrome ) , steven gillis ( the acquisition of metrical phonology : computational learning experiments with ( out ) parameters , nicholas asher ( discourse parsing and interpretation ) , frans van eemeren ( rhetorical analysis within a dialectical framework ) , sally thomason ( competition and rule creation in language variation and change ) , and pieter muysken ( accommodation strategies in language contact ) . also there will be an evening lecture on monday evening , october 19th , by : steve pinker " words and rules " . this evening lecture will also be open to non-participants from uil ots and from the national graduate school of linguistics lot , in so far as there sufficient places . besides the invited lectures there are 19 oral presentations of selected papers , and 24 poster presentations . as of september 7th , a full congress programme and registration form can be found on the internet http : / / www-uilots . let . uu . nl / conferences / sc _ home . htm or can be obtained from our secretariate . note that registration is necessary also for participants from uil ots and lot , and that the registration fee will be considerably higher after october 1st . thus , on-site registration is possible , but will be relatively costly . programme for the utrecht congress on storage & computation in linguistics 1998 organized by the utrecht institute of linguistics ots on the occasion of its 10th anniversary october 19th - october 21st , 1998 20 . 00 informal drinks and registration 08 . 30 - 09 . 30 coffee and registration 09 . 30 - 09 . 45 welcome and opening riet schenkeveld - van der dussen , dean of the faculty of arts eric reuland , director of the uil ots 09 . 45 - 11 . 45 theme 1 : the architecture of the language faculty : storage and computation 09 . 45 - 10 . 30 ray jackendoff ( keynote lecture ) what 's in the lexicon ? 10 . 30 - 10 . 45 discussion 10 . 45 - 11 . 30 frans zwarts negation , temporal connectives , and nonveridicality 11 . 30 - 11 . 45 discussion 11 . 45 - 12 . 15 coffee break 12 . 25 - 13 . 25 posters m . becker the acquisition of language with complex heads a . evers & j . van kampen three types of delay in language acquisition j . dalalakis recall or computation ? level - ordering skills of greek specifically-language - impaired individuals i . kappa on the acquisition of fricatives in modern greek s . powers computing complexity in child grammar m . sharwood - smith dr . watson 's problem : on modular interactions in the second language acquirer d . ravid , h . abu - nofel & r . huri in the presence of multiple cues : learning to inflect plural adjectives in palestinian arabic n . ritter predicting the growth of phonological complexity in a cognitive-based computational model 13 . 25 - 14 . 30 lunch 14 . 30 - 15 . 50 theme 2 : grammar design 14 . 30 - 15 . 00 ed keenan & ed stabler language invariants and language learnability 15 . 00 - 15 . 10 discussion 15 . 10 - 15 . 40 jan koster the uniformity of grammar 15 . 40 - 15 . 50 discussion 15 . 50 - 16 . 20 coffee break 16 . 20 - 18 . 00 selected papers 16 . 20 - 16 . 45 h . jacobs child language and decreolization : computability and multiple storage 16 . 45 - 17 . 10 b . hohle & j . weissenborn the processing of closed-class elements in preverbal children : on the structure of children 's early lexical representations 17 . 10 - 17 . 35 l . lagerwerf inferences with causal connectives 17 . 35 - 18 . 00 b . warren & b . erman prefabs and word retrievals evening lecture place : aula , academiegebouw , domplein 29 20 . 30 steve pinker words and rules 08 . 30 - 09 . 50 theme 3 : language change 08 . 30 - 09 . 00 john ohala on the origin of the processes creating phonological variants 09 . 00 - 09 . 10 discussion 09 . 10 - 09 . 40 geert booij lexical storage and phonological change 09 . 40 - 09 . 50 discussion 09 . 50 - 10 . 20 coffee break 10 . 20 - 12 . 00 selected papers 10 . 20 - 10 . 45 j . lidz , l . gleitman & h gleitman the neighborhood effect 10 . 45 - 11 . 10 h . baayen & r . schreuder the balance of storage and computation in the mental lexicon : the case of morphological processing in language comprehension 11 . 10 - 11 . 35 a . laubstein blends as sublexical substitution errors 11 . 35 - 12 . 00 th . pollman & c . jansen the pragmatics of numerical expressions 12 . 10 - 13 . 10 posters j . treffers - daller borrowing and shift-induced interference : contrasting patterns in french - germanic contact in brussels and strasbourg j . mateu i fontanals on the irrelevance of conceptual content to the syntax - semantics interface i . draskovic & j . pustejovsky adjective - noun modifications : yellow tables , interesting books , and fast cars d . janssen the relativity of storage versus computation in producing language e . clark the net gain of neural nets : toward a more precise representation of universal grammar m . carmelita dias , v . quental & l . sanchez garcia a modular approach to lexicon j . weissenborn , b . hohle , d . kiefer & d . cavar the principle of economic conservatism : a constraint on children 's early syntactic operations d . leblanc competing lexical configurations : explaining patterns of child null subject and root infinitive use 13 . 10 - 14 . 30 lunch 14 . 30 - 15 . 50 theme 4 : language acquisition 14 . 30 - 15 . 00 harald clahsen storage and computation of language in children with williams syndrome 15 . 00 - 15 . 10 discussion 15 . 10 - 15 . 40 steven gillis the acquisition of metrical phonology : computational learning experiments with ( out ) parameters 15 . 40 - 15 . 50 discussion 15 . 50 - 16 . 20 coffee break 16 . 20 - 18 . 00 selected papers 16 . 20 - 16 . 45 : i . lasser language variation as cross-module links 16 . 45 - 17 . 10 : m . pinango , e . zurif & r . jackendoff aspectual coercion as on-line semantic computation : psycholinguistic and neuroanatomical evidence 17 . 10 - 17 . 35 : e . kaan , a . harris , e . gibson & ph . holcomb a brain wave component reflecting computation in language processing 17 . 35 - 18 . 00 : w . daelemans , a . van den bosch , j . veenstra & j . zavrel memory - based models of language processing 20 . 00congress diner 08 . 30 - 09 . 50 theme 5 : discourse analysis 08 . 30 - 09 . 00 nicholas asher discourse parsing and interpretation 09 . 00 - 09 . 10 discussion 09 . 10 - 09 . 40 frans van eemeren rhetorical analysis within a dialectical framework 09 . 40 - 09 . 50 discussion 09 . 50 - 10 . 20 coffee break 10 . 20 - 12 . 00 selected papers 10 . 20 - 10 . 45 j . schilperoord & a . verhagen storage and computation : a view from language production 10 . 45 - 11 . 10 s . grondelaers & m . brysbaert the interaction of storage and computation in the mental lexicon : the case of morphological processing in language comprehension 11 . 10 - 11 . 35 a . kilgariff the generative lexicon and the nunbergian lexicon 11 . 35 - 12 . 00 j . van der does & h . de hoop word - order variation and type-shifting 12 . 10 - 13 . 10 posters p . royle , g . jarema & e . kehayia visual word access in developmentally language impaired francophones r . slabakova aspectual constraints in the mental lexicon of bulgarian speakers l . stowe , r . withaar , a . wijers & a . paans the localization in the brain of cognitive functions involved in sentence processing r . varley & s . whiteside whole word storage in speech production : evidence from normal speakers and speakers with acquired apraxia of speech b . kennelly quantification / aspect interface m . penke , m . krause & u . janssen storage and computation in german participle formation : evidence from language disorders y . tobin monosemy and iconicity as underlying holistic mnemonic devices in language structure m . vilares ferro , d . cabrero souto & m . alonso pardo exploring parsing efficiency in computational linguistics 13 . 10 - 14 . 30 lunch 14 . 30 - 15 . 45 selected papers 14 . 30 - 14 . 55 p . ackema , a . neeleman competition between syntax and morphology 14 . 55 - 15 . 20 j . mateu i fontanals , l . amadas i simon & m . pascual i pou on the lexical syntax of ' constructional idioms ' 15 . 20 - 15 . 45 n . olsthoorn & g . kempen the cognitive architecture of grammatical encoding and decoding : an experimental test of the single-processor hypothesis 15 . 45 - 16 . 15 coffee break 16 . 15 - 17 . 35 theme 6 : language variation 16 . 15 - 16 . 45 sally thomason competition and rule creation in language variation and change 16 . 45 - 16 . 55 discussion 16 . 55 - 17 . 25 pieter muysken accommodation strategies in language contact 17 . 25 - 17 . 35 discussion 17 . 35 - 18 . 00 closing statement sunday october 18th place : michaelskapel , domtower , domplein monday october 19th place : drift 21 , room 0 . 32 & main hall tuesday october 20th place : drift 21 , room 0 . 32 & main hall wednesday october 21st place : drift 21 , room 0 . 32 & main hall _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ utrecht institute of linguistics ots uil ots please note ! the e-mail address changed to uil-ots @ let . uu . nl voice : # 31 ( 0 ) 30-2536006 fax : # 31 ( 0 ) 30-2536000 postal adress : trans 10 , 3512 jk , utrecht , the netherlands _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
