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Mayfest 2004: CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. Over the course of two days, participants engage in talks and discussion sessions to stimulate new insights and collaboration.

Talks

  • Sarah Brownn-Schmidt and Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester), Continuous update of the message during unrestricted
  • Rebecca Nappa, David January, Lila Gleitman and John Trueswell (Pennsylvania), Paying attention to attention: Perceptual priming effects on word order
  • Marshall Mayberry and Matthew Crocker (Saarland), Incrementality, prediction and attention in a scaleable network model of linguistic competence and performance
  • Andrew Nevins (MIT), Colin Phillips and David Poeppel (Maryland), Syntactic and semantic predictors of tense: An ERP investigation of Hindi
  • Tanja Schmid, Markus Bader and Josef Bayer (Konstanz), Parsing and grammar: Evidence from infinitival complementation
  • Paul Engelhardt, Karl Bailey and Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State), “But its already on a towel!”: Reconsidering the one-referent visual context
  • Craig Chambers and Valerie San Juan (Calgary), Presupposition and referential prediction in real-time sentence comprehension
  • Julie Boland and Jessica Cooke (Michigan), Anticipatory eye-movements reflect semantic event structure, not subcategorization frequency
  • Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima and Colin Phillips (Maryland), Relative clause prediction in Japanese
  • Anne Fernald, Renate Zangl, Tiffany Early, Ana Luz Portillo and Carolyn Quam (Stanford), Two year olds use verb information in rapid inferential learning of novel nouns
  • Jeeyoung Ahn Ha (Illinois), Age-related effects on learning to parse: Evidence from Korean-English bilinguals
  • Irina Sekerina (CUNY) and John Trueswell (Pennsylvania), Interpreting contrastive constituents in Russian: Pragmatic and prosodic effects
  • H. Wind Cowles & Alan Garnham (Sussex), Prominence differences in definite NP anaphor resolution: Grammatical subject and semantic distance effects
  • Jools Simner and Martin Pickering (Edinburgh), Generating associations of cause and consequence
  • Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State), Ellen Lau (Maryland) and Karl Bailey (Michigan State), A model of disfluency processing based on Tree-Adjoining Grammar
  • Silvia Gennari and Maryellen MacDonald (Wisconsin), Relating production and comprehension of relative clauses
  • Ruth Kempson and Matthew Purver (London), Grammars with parsing dynamics: A new perspective on alignment
  • Janet McLean, Holly Branigan and Martin Pickering (Edinburgh), How artists with keys help nuns with umbrellas: The role of prior comprehension on disambiguation
  • Kay Bock (Illinois)
  • Gerard Kempen (Leiden)
  • Vic Ferreira (UCSD)
  • Maryellen MacDonald (Wisconsin)
  • Martin Pickering (Edinburgh)
  • Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips and Masaya Yoshida (Maryland), Use of grammatical constraints in the processing of backwards anaphora
  • Kirsten Thorpe and Anne Fernald (Stanford), Knowing what a novel word is not: Efficient processing of prenominal adjectives in speech
  • Erin McMahon Ledden, Jeffrey Lidz and Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern), Suprasegmental cues to meaning in child-directed speech
  • Jennifer Balogh and David Swinney (UCSD), The on-line processing of contrastive stress in pronoun reference resolution.
  • Masako Hirotani (Massachusetts), Prosodic boundaries in the comprehension and production of wh- questions in Tokyo Japanese
  • Catherine Anderson (Northwestern) and Katy Carlson (Morehead St.), Prosodic phrasing in DO/SC and closure sentences
  • Duane Watson, Michael Tanenhaus and Christine Gunlogson (Rochester), Processing pitch accents: Interpreting H and L+H
  • Martin Pickering (Edinburgh) & Matthew Traxler (UC Davis), Grammatical repetition and Garden Path effects
  • Markus Bader, Josef Bayer, Jana Häussler and Tanja Schmid (Konstanz), On structure and frequency: Case in PP and VP
  • Timothy Desmet, Constantijn de Backe, Denis Drieghe (Ghent), Marc Brysbaert (London) and Wietske Vonk (MPI Nijmegen), Relative clause attachment in Dutch: On-line reading preferences correspond to corpus frequencies when lexical variables are taken into account
  • John Hale (Michigan State) and Edward Gibson (MIT), Construction frequency and sentence comprehension