The 7th Annual Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2006)

[Hitomi Murata]

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University
will be sponsoring the seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(TCP2006) on March 17 and 18, 2006.

The invited speakers are Prof. David Pesetsky (MIT) and
Prof. Edson Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba).

Below you fill find the conference program.  For details, visit
our web site:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

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(TCP 2006 Program)

Day 1 (March 17, 2006)
13:00-13:10
Opening            Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

13:10-13:40 (Short Presentation)
"Topics in Child Japanese"
Noriko Hattori, Seiki Ayano, David Stringer, Koji Sugisaki
(Mie University) and Dylan Herrick (Pomona College)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

13:40-14:10 (Short Presentation)
"The Development of the Verb Category and Verb Argument
Structures in Mandarin-Speaking Children beforeTwo Years of Age"
Ling Xiao, Xin Cai (Hunan University) and Thomas Hun-tak Lee
(Hunan University /Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

14:10:14:40 (Short Presentation)
"Sloppy Readings of a 'Referential Pronoun' in Japanese"
Misato Hiraga and Jon Nissenbaum (McGill University)
Chair:  Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei University)

15:00-15:30 (Short Presentation)
"You Can't Unscramble an Egg"
Takaomi Kato (Harvard University)
Chair:  Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei University)

15:30-16:15 (Long Presentation)
"Emergence of Bipolar Items in Romance"
Masakazu Kuno (Harvard University)
Chair:  Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo Gakugei University)

16:30-17:30 (Invited Lecture)
"Making a Noun Phrase"
David Pesetsky (MIT)
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

Reception

Day 2 (March 18, 2006)
10:00-10:45 (Long Presentation)
"Any News on the Explicit/Implicit Front?"
Nausicaa Pouscoulous (Institut Jean Nicod/Institut des
Sciences Cognitives)
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

10:45-11:30 (Long Presentation)
"The Role of L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition of English
Double Object Constructions"
Eunjeong Oh and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (University of
Southern California)
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

13:00-13:45 (Long Presentation)
"Local Implicatures?"
Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen) and NausicaaPouscoulous
(Institut Jean Nicod/ Institut des Sciences Cognitives)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

13:45-14:15 (Short Presentation)
"Coming and Going, Toing and Froing: VP/PP Parallels in
First Language Acquisition"
David Stringer (Mie University)
Chair:  Miwa Isobe (Meiji Gakuin University)

14:15-14:45 (Short Presentation)
"Modularized Implicit Rules and Abstract Linguistic Categories:
The Japanese Goyo Test"
Teodor Ajder (Yokohama National University)
Chair:  Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)

15:05-15:35 (Short Presentation)
"Preferred Word Order of a Japanese Sentence Correlates
with its Constructional Meaning: Evidence from a Psycholinguistic
 Experiment"
Keiko Nakamoto (Kyoto University), Kow Kuroda and
Jae-Ho Lee (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology)
Chair:  Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)

15:35:16:20 (Long Presentation)
"The Effect of Information Accessibility on Syntactic
Processing in Japanese Sentence Production"
Mikihiro Tanaka, Holly P. Branigan and Martin J. Pickering
(University of Edinburgh)
Chair:  Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)

16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture)
"Factors in the Incremental Processing of NPs in Japanese"
Edson Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Alternates:
1.  "Comparative Conditionals in Japanese"
      Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University /University of Connecticut)

2. "Prosodic Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication"
     Ho Leung Chan (University of Pittsburgh)
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