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The Program published in Linguist 13.1965 was incomplete; the complete program follows. LANGUAGE, BRAIN AND COMPUTATION University of Venice October 3-5, 2002 Thursday, October 3 LINGUISTIC THEORY 7:30-8:45 Registration 8:45 Welcome 9:00-9:45 Guglielmo Cinque, Universit� di Venezia Invited speaker Complement and Adverbial PPs: Implications for Clause Structure 9:45-10:15 Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al Asymmetry, Antisymmetry and Tractability BREAK 10:30-11:00 Antonia Androutsopoulou and Manuel Espa�ol-Echevarria, Universit� Laval On the Hidden Structure of Romance Prepositional Genitives 11:00-11:30 Nicola Munaro, Universit� di Venezia Computational Puzzles of Conditional Clause Preposing 11:30-12:00 Eric Mathieu, University College London On the Nature of Feature-Checking, Optionality and Pied-piping: Evidence from Split-DPs 12:00-12:30 Manuela Ambar, Universidade de Lisboa Clefts and Tense Asymmetries LUNCH 14:30-15:00 David Lightfoot, Georgetown University Minimizing Government 15:00-15:30 Gabi Toth, University of Szeged Anaphoric and Distributive Dependencies 15:30-16:00 Francesca Del Gobbo, UC Irvine and Harvard University On the Interpretation of Prenominal Relative Clauses: The Role of Processing BREAK 16:15-16:45 Dana Isac, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al Depictives, Syntactic and Interpretive Asymmetries 16:45-17:15 Edit Jakab, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al On the Question of Agreement in the Uses of Russian Imperatives 17:15-17:45 Peggy Speas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Aspect and Attitudes BREAK 18:00-18:30 Yves Roberge, University of Toronto On Certain Subject/Object Asymmetries and the Status of Transitivity 18:30-19:00 Evan Mellander, University of Leipzig Generating Configurational Asymmetries in Prosodic Phonology 19:00-19:30 Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and William B. Snyder, University of Connecticut Language Learnability and the Forms of Recursion POSTERS Stanca Somesfalean, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al On Clitic Clustering in Romanian P. Ilangovan, C.B.M. College, Coimbatore, India Grammatical Triggers, Closed Loops and Specialized Corpora Hai Doan-Nguyen, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al A Psycholinguistics-Based Parsing Prototype Friday, October 4 COMPUTATION 9:00-9:45 Robert Berwick, MIT Invited speaker Minimalist Machinery: Computation at the Interfaces 9:45-10:15 Sandiway Fong, NEC Research Institute Computation with Probes and Goals: A Parsing Perspective BREAK 10:30-11:00 Manuel Espa�ol-Echevarria, Universit� Laval Strict Asymmetry and Rhetorical Structure Theory 11:00-11:30 Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al Asymmetry and Minimalist Parsing 11:30-12:00 Henk Harkema, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al Parsing Minimalist Languages 12:00-12:30 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Abderrezzak Tourabi and Salim Rami, Mohammed V University-Souissi IERA Arabic Verb Conjugation Paradigms: A Computational Treatment LUNCH 14:30-15:00 Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS, Universit� de Provence Towards an Account of Variability 15:00-15:30 Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield, Centre Tesni�re, Universit� de Franche-Comt� Systemic Language Analysis and Processing 15:30-16:00 Rodolfo Delmonte, Universit� Ca' Foscari Linguistically Based Shallow Parsing: Parameterizing Ambiguity BREAK 16:15-16:45 Alan Bernardi and Magda Fusaro, Bell Canada Natural Languages: A Challenge to Electronic Communications 16:45-17:15 Sylvain Falardeau, Delphes Technologies International Configuration-Based Information Retrieval Demo 17:15-17:45 Omar Larouk, Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Biblioth�ques, France Evaluation Multimodal Interfaces of Web-Pages with Semantics of Natural Language 17:45-18:15 Alain Clavet, Commissariat aux Langues officielles, Gouvernement du Canada Les langues officielles du Canada: Pr�sence sur Internet 18:30-19:30 Annual Meeting of the Federation on Natural Language Processing Saturday, October 5 BRAIN 9:00-9:45 Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University and McGill University Invited speaker Syntactic Movement: A Perspective from Intact and Lesioned Brains 9:45-10:15 Kjetil Berntzen, University of Bergen and Arild Hestvik, CUNY V-Movement and Question Production in Norwegian Broca's Aphasia BREAK 10:30-11:00 Frank Burchert, Ria De Bleser, Katharina Sonntag, University of Potsdam Impaired Comprehension of Syntactic Dependencies in German 11:00-11:30 Sharon Armon-Lotem and Idit Avram, Bar Llan University The Autonomous Contribution of Syntax and Pragmatics to the Acquisition of the Hebrew Definite Article 11:30-12:00 Helen Goodluck, University of Ulster and University of Ottawa Processing Discourse-Linked Phrases: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Perceptual Effects 12:00-12:30 Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue University Evidence from American Sign Languages for Asymmetries in UG LUNCH 14:30-15:00 Matt Bauer, Georgetown University Prosodic Cues During Online Processing of Speech: Evidence from Stress Shift in American English 15:00-15:30 Ning Pan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and William Snyder, University of Connecticut Acquisition of Phonological Empty Categories: A Case Study of Early Child Dutch Please consult our web sites: http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca http://www.nlplab.uqamMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue