LINGUIST List 17.1772: Psycholing/Tokyo, Japan

LINGUIST List 17.1772

Mon Jun 12 2006

Confs: Psycholing/Tokyo, Japan

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory 1. Yuki Hirose, The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences

Message 1: The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences
Date: 09-Jun-2006
From: Yuki Hirose <hiroseboz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences

The 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences

Date: 14-Jul-2006 - 15-Jul-2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact: Yuki Hirose Contact Email: hsppecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

PROGRAM

Friday, July 14 Registration 9:30 Thought and Language Session 1 (Talks are given in Japanese) 10:00 Opening remarks and Announcements 10:05-10:35 A non-syntactic factor which makes the revision process more difficult -pragmatic plausibility- Hiroaki OISHI (Graduate School of Humanities, Department of Linguistics, Kyushu University) 10:35-11:05 Reconsideration of presuppositional tests in Japanese Daisuke BEKKI (University of Tokyo), Ai KAWAZOE (National Institute of Informatics), Kiyoko KATAOKA (Nihon University) & Manabu SAITO (Teikyo University) 11:05-11:35 The plural -s as a determiner Yoshiko UMEMORI (Kumon Institute of Education (part time))

Thought and Language Session 2 (Talks are given in Japanese) 11:45-12:15 On-line processing of floating quantifier constructions in Japanese: Using Event-Related brain Potentials Daichi YASUNAGA (Kyushu University) & Tsutomu SAKAMOTO (Kyushu University) 12:15-12:45 Architecture of the speech recognition system that consists of overlapping of impulse-driven look-up tables Shinji KARASAWA (Miyagi National College of Technology) & Hiroshi SAKURABA (Miyagi National College of Technology)

Lunch (12:45-13:40)

COE Workshop Session 1 (Talks are given in English) 13:40 Opening remarks and Announcements 13:45-14:25 Using the Moses Illusion to investigate the external speech monitor Jessica W. CHEVALIER (University of California, Santa Cruz) 14:25-15:05 A Memory-based sentence processing model Kei TAKAHASHI (Graduate School of International Cultural Studies(GSICS)/ Center for Interdisciplinary Research(CIR), Tohoku University) & Kei YOSHIMOTO (Graduate School of International Cultural Studies(GSICS)/ Center for the Advanced Higher Education(CAHE), Tohoku University) 15:05-15:45 Attributes of language use explained by activities of neurons Shinji KARASAWA (Miyagi National College of Technology)

COE Workshop Session 2 (Talks are given in English) 16:00-16:40 JFL learners' reading NPs in sentences and isolation Mineharu NAKAYAMA (Ohio State University) & Akiko KASHIWAGI (Ohio State University) 16:40-17:20 Structural priming as a window to the human linguistic representations Hiroko YAMASHITA (Rochester Institute of Technology) 17:20-18:00 The processing of English number agreement Jeffrey D. WITZEL (University of Arizona) & Janet L. NICOL (University of Arizona)

Saturday, July 15

Thought and Language Session 3 (Talks are given in Japanese) 10:00-10:30 What factor effects the preference of Japanese syntactically ambiguous sentence ? Miki UETSUKI (Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences at the University of Tokyo) 10:30-11:00 Cognitive semantics and language acquisition Megumi NISHIKAWA (Kunitachi College of Music)

COE Workshop Session 3 (Talks are given in English) 11:20-12:00 Anatomy of acceptability judgments Yoshihisa KITAGAWA (Indiana University) and Yuki HIROSE (The University of Tokyo) 12:00-12:40 Input for learning Japanese: RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus Reiko MAZUKA (Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Duke University), Yosuke IGARASHI (Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, National Institute for Japanese Language) & Ken'ya NISHIKAWA (Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Keio University)

Lunch (12:40-13:40)

COE Workshop Session 4 (Talks are given in English) 13:40-14:20 Parsing and multiple Wh-questions in Japanese Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) & Jason Ginsburg (University of Arizona) 14:20-15:00 Becoming syntactic: Psycholinguistic, developmental, and evolutionary considerations Franklin CHANG (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) 15:00-15:40 Effects of mathematical calculations and thinking about time on abstract thought Jessica W. CHEVALIER (University of California, Santa Cruz)

COE Workshop Session 5 (Talks are given in English) 16:00-16:40 The subsequent incremental anticipation (SIA) model for explaining the processing of Japanese active sentences Katsuo TAMAOKA (Hiroshima University), Satoru MURAOKA (Kyushu University), Yayoi MIYAOKA (Hiroshima University of Economics) & Hiromu SAKAI (Hiroshima University) 16:40-17:20 Processing sandwiched dative NP in Korean via case-prosody interaction Jieun KIAER (King's College London) & Ruth KEMPSON (King's College London) 17:20-18:00 Activation of syntactic and conceptual information during Japanese sentence production Mikihiro TANAKA (University of Edinburgh), Holly BRANIGAN (University of Edinburgh) & Martin PICKERING (University of Edinburgh)