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LINGUIST List 20.1804
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Directory 1. Peggy Speas, Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition Message 1: Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition
Date: 08-May-2009 From: Peggy Speas <pspeaslinguist.umass.edu> Subject: Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition E-mail this message to a friend Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition Date: 26-May-2009 - 28-May-2009 Location: Amherst, MA, USA Contact: Peggy Speas Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/recursionconf/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories Meeting Description: Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition This interdisciplinary workshop will explore how complex structures are created and employed in language and other cognitive domains. The workshop will feature invited speakers from linguistics, biology, psychology, philosophy and computer science, as well as enhanced poster sessions. Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 26-26 2009 Program All Talks Take Place in the UMass Campus Center Auditorium Tuesday, May 26 8-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:45-9:00 Welcoming remarks 9:00-9:45 Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania ‘Recursion in Language: A View from Mild (Minimal!) Context Sensitivity’ 9:45-10:30 Edward Stabler, UCLA ‘Recursion in Grammar and Performance’ 10:30- 10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Steve Piantoadosi and Tim O’Donnell, MIT ‘A Formal Model of Number Word Acquisition’ 11:30-12:15 Panel: Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts TBA David Smith, University of Massachusetts 12:15-1:45 Lunch 10th Floor, Campus Center 1:45-2:30 Poster mini-talks 2:-2:30 Poster session 1 2:30 -3:15 Hilda Koopman, UCLA ‘On The Form of Syntactic Derivations and Restrictions on Recursion’ 3:15-4:00 Eva Juarros-Daussà, SUNY Buffalo ‘Lack of Recursion in the Lexicon: The Two Argument Restriction’ 4:00-4:45 Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University ‘Taming Recursion’ 4:45-5:00 Break 5 – 5:45 Greeting from Chancelellor Robert C. Holub Panel: Chris Collins, NYU Anna Maria di Sciullo, UQAM Peggy Speas, UMass 6:00 - 7:30 Dinner, University Club 7:30-8:15 Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen Tom Roeper, UMass ‘How the Phase-Alternation Constraint on Recursion and Propositional Exclusivity Interact’ 8:15-9:00 Jill de Villiers, Smith College Title TBA 9:00 - 9:30 Panel: Janet Randall, Northeastern University Diane Lillo-Martin, UConn UMass Recursion Conference 26-28, 2009 Wednesday, May 27 8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:45 Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University ‘Anti-recursion and the Ontology of Truth’ 9:45-10:30 Peter Ludlow, University of Toronto ‘Expressivist Semantics and Recursion’ 10:30- 10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Manfred Krifka, Humbolt University Title TBA 11:30-12:15 Panel: Chris Potts, UMass Angelika Kratzer, UMass Louise Antony, UMass 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:45 Greetings from Dean Joel Martin Noam Chomsky, MIT 2:45-3:20 Poster mini-presentations 3:20 - 4:00 Poster session 2 4:00 - 4:45 David Pesetsky, MIT Jonah Katz, MIT ‘The Recursive Syntax and Prosody of Tonal Music’ 4:45 - 5:30 Ansgar Endress, Harvard University ‘Recursion: What Is It, Who Has It and How Can It Be Learned?’ 5:30-6:15 Koji Fujita, Kyoto University ‘The Design, Development and Evolution of Unbounded Merge’ 6:15 - 7:00 Panel: Juan Uriagereka, UMd Bruce Byers, UMass Tom Zoeller, UMass 7:30- Party at Tom Roeper’s home UMass Recursion Conference May 26-28, 2009 Thursday, May 28 8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:45 Douglas Saddy, University of Reading Title TBA 9:45-10:30 Rebecca Saxe, MIT Title TBA 10:30-10:45 Break 10: 45-11:30 Daniel Everett, Illinois State University ''You Drink. You Drive. You Go To Jail. Where's Recursion?' 11:30-12:15 Lynn Nichols, UC Berkeley ‘Subordinate Structures and the Lexicon’ 12:15 - 1:00 Panel: Lee Spector, Hampshire College Uli Sauerland, Seth Cable, UMass Poster Session 1: Tuesday 5/26 Anja Hubert ‘The Acquisition of Ellipsis and the Recursive Structure of the Noun Phrase’ Vitor Zimmerer Patricia Cowell, Rosemary Varley University of Sheffield ‘Acquisition of Recursive Rules in Artificial Grammars’ Jörg Bahlmann, Michiru Makuuchi, Jutta Mueller and Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig ‘Broca’s Area and Its Role during the Processing of Hierarchical and Non Hier. Artificial Grammar Rules’ Mercedes Marcilese 1, Clara Villarinho 1, Marina Augusto 2, Leticia Corrèa 1 1 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/LAPAL, 2 State University of Rio de Janeiro/LAPAL ‘Cognitive and Ling. Demands in 1st and 2nd Order False Belief Tasks’ Karen Zagona University of Washington ‘Embedded Tenses and Shifted Judgments’ Wayne Cowart, Dana McDaniel University of Southern Maine ‘Grammatical Coordination and the Approximate Number System’ Julia Uddén 1, 2, 3, Susana Araujo 4, Martin Ingvar 2, Christian Forkstam 1, 2, 3, Peter Hagoort 1, 3, Karl Magnus Peterson 1,2,3 1 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 2 Stockholm Brain Institute, 3 Donders Institute, 4 Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Universidade do Algarve ‘Implicit Syntax Learning in Regular and Non Reg. Artificial Grammars’ Charles Reiss, Marc Simpson Concordia University ‘A Recursive Projection Model of Reduplication’ Marilia Costa, Aniela Franca Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ‘Theory of Mind Might be False: Recursion and Complex Inferences’ Poster Session 2: Wednesday 5/27 Maxi Limbach University of Cologne ‘Acquisition Data on Recursive Possessives: Evidence from FLA and SLA’ Hiroki Narita Harvard University ‘Cyclic Transfer in Service of Recursive Merge’ Anna Fedor 1, Péter Ittzés 2, Eörs Szathmáry 1,2 1 ELTE, Hungary, 2 Colleguium Budapest ‘Recursion in Artificial Grammar Learning Tasks’ Ricard Viñas-de-Puig Purdue University ‘Recursive V and the Introduction of External Arguments’ Shinchiro Ishihara University of Potsdam ‘Relative Prominence and Recursion in Phase-based Prosody’ Monica Irimia University of Toronto ‘Secondary Predicates and Recursion’ Michiru Makuuchi, Jörg Bahlmann, Alfred Anwander, Angela Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ‘Segregating the Core Computational Faculty of Human Lg. from Working Memory’ Takashi Toyoshima, Fuminori Mizushima, Kyushu Institute of Technology ‘Unsupervised Computational Learning of Recursion in Language’ Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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