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Mon Apr 21 2003

Confs: Semantics/Psycholing/Ling Theories/MD USA

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  • Scott Fults, University of Maryland Mayfest 2003

    Message 1: University of Maryland Mayfest 2003

     Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Scott Fults <swfwam.umd.edu>
    Subject: University of Maryland Mayfest 2003


    <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> MARYLAND MAYFEST 2003

    University of Maryland at College Park May 15th-17th 2003

    For the past ten years, the Department of Linguistics of the University of Maryland at College Park has held a conference each year, called Mayfest.

    This year's topic is "The Emergence of Meaning". The speakers, whose research covers both theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics, share an interest in semantics and the development of semantic competence. Details for Mayfest 2003 are available at

    http://www.ling.umd.edu/graciela/Mayfest2003.html

    The conference will include an extended tutorial on Semantic Theory on May 15th. On each of the following days, May 16th and May 17th, there will be four talks and two commentaries.

    Program (*) May 15th (afternoon) Tutorial Terence Parsons (UCLA)

    May 16th (morning) Anna Szabolcsi and Bill Haddican (New York U.) "Conjunction meets Negation: A Study in Cross-linguistic Variation"

    Sergey Avrutin (Utrecht U.) "Determiners and Other Functional Categories in Child Language and Aphasic Speech: A Cross-linguistic Investigation"

    Commentator: Martin Hackl (Pomona College)

    May 16th (afternoon) Julie Sedivy (Brown University) "Gricean Inferencing in Language Processing and Development: Automatizing the Integration of Linguistic Form with Situational Context"

    Mark Baker (Rutgers University) "Nouns vs. Adjectives: Distinction and Integration"

    Commentator: Irene Heim (MIT)

    May 17th (morning) Richard Larson (SUNY-Stony Brook) "The Projection of DP Structure"

    Ken Wexler (MIT) TBA

    Commentator: Peter Gordon (Teacher's College - Columbia U.) (To be confirmed)

    May 17th (afternoon) Peter Ludlow (University of Michigan) "The Logical Form of Determiners"

    Julien Musolino (Indiana University) "The emergence of quantificational competence"

    Commentator: John Trueswell (U. of Pennsylvania) (To be confirmed)

    (*) specific times for the talks will be available soon.

    For more details, please visit our website:

    http://www.ling.umd.edu/graciela/Mayfest2003.html

    Mayfest 2003 1401 Marie Mount Hall Linguistics Department University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740