LINGUIST List 14.1507

Sat May 24 2003

Confs: Japanese/Psycholinguistics/MI USA

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    Message 1: Japanese Language Processing Workshop

     Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:08:26 +0000
    From: etm <etmis.aist-nara.ac.jp>
    Subject: Japanese Language Processing Workshop


    Japanese Language Processing Workshop

    Date: 25-Jul-2003 - 25-Jul-2003 Location: East Lansing - MI, United States of America Contact: Edson Miyamoto Contact Email: etmis.aist-nara.ac.jp Meeting URL: http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~etm/jlp

    Linguistic Sub-field: Psycholinguistics Subject Language Family: Japanese Family

    This is a session of the following conference: LSA 2003 Institute

    Meeting Description:

    Japanese Language Processing Workshop July 25-26, 2003 Michigan State University

    The 4th Japanese Language Processing Workshop will take place July 25-26, 2003 as part of the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2003, at Michigan State University.

    The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in Japanese psycholinguistics to discuss theoretical and methodological issues related to current research. Topics include syntactic, morphological, and prosodic factors in human language processing. The following are some of the basic questions to be considered.

    * How do people process individual words and associate them with each other in order to extract the meaning of a sentence?

    * To what extent is this process similar cross-linguistically?

    * What is the role of grammatical constraints in this process? How do they interact with other sources of information such as world knowledge and with the availability of cognitive resources?

    The workshop will include tutorial sessions, which will survey necessary background for the discussions, with special emphasis on the sentence-level comprehension and production of Japanese and related languages.

    Workshop dates: July 25-26, 2003 C312 Wells Hall Michigan State University

    Organizers: Edson T. Miyamoto (NAIST) and Hiroko Yamashita (RIT)

    For further information, email: jlpw2003quince.aist-nara.ac.jp Or visit the webpage of the workshop: http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~etm/jlp

    - ----------------------- Preliminary Program ------------------------

    July 25, 2003

    Introduction

    1:00-1:40 Progress in Japanese sentence processing research: What have we learned since the 1991 Duke workshop? Reiko Mazuka (Duke U.)

    Processing difficulty and working memory

    1:40-2:20 Tutorial Mineharu Nakayama (Ohio State U.)

    2:20-3:00 Individual differences in Japanese sentence processing Nobuyuki Jincho (Waseda U.) and Reiko Mazuka (Duke U.)

    3:00-3:20 Break

    Production

    3:20-4:00 Tutorial Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)

    4:00-4:40 Given-new ordering and the stages of language production: Insights from Japanese Victor Ferreira and Hiromi Yoshita (U. California San Diego)

    4:40-5:20 Syntactic priming in Japanese and architecture of language production Hiroko Yamashita (RIT), Yuki Hirose (U. Electro Communications) and Franklin Chang (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

    5:20-6:00 Picture word interference experiments in Japanese: Semantic similarity and grammatical class in naming action Noriko Iwasaki, David P. Vinson and Gabriella Vigliocco (U. College London)

    6:30-8:00 Dinner



    July 26, 2003

    Incremental processing and long-distance dependencies

    10:30-11:10 Tutorial Edson T. Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

    11:10-11:50 Grammar and real-time formation of wh-dependencies Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips and Amy Weinberg (U. Maryland)

    11:50-12:30 Storage, integration and incrementality Kentaro Nakatani (Harvard U.)

    12:30-2:00 Lunch

    Prosody

    2:00-2:40 Tutorial Shari Speer (Ohio State U.), Amy Schafer (U. Hawaii) and Paul Warren (Victoria U.)

    2:40-3:20 How prosodic information is used in the grammar and processor: Processing Japanese wh-questions Masako Hirotani (U. Massachusetts Amherst)

    3:20-3:40 Break

    Neurolinguistics

    3:40-4:20 Tutorial Susan Garnsey (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

    4:20-5:00 The processing of Japanese wh-questions: An event-related brain potential study Mieko Ueno and Robert Kluender (U. California San Diego)

    5:00-5:40 How does focus-related prosodic mismatch affect brainwaves in Japanese? Kiwako Itoh (Ohio State U.) and Susan Garnsey (UIUC)

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