TCP2011

[Nakamura, Kei]

The 12the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2011)

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies of Keio University
will be sponsoring the twelfth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(TCP 2011) on March 11 and 12, 2011 to be held at Kita-kan Hall,
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo.

The invited speakers are Dr. Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
and Dr. Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University).

For details, visit our website:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

(TCP 2011 Program)
Day 1 (March 11, 2011)

13:00-13:05
Opening            Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

13:05-13:35
“On Grammatical Maturation”
Cedric Boeckx (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Chair:  Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University)

13:35-14:05
“Is Statistical Learning Affected by Perceptual Reorganization?: Dutch
Infants’ Sensitivity to
 Lexical Tone Discrimination”
Liquan Liu and René Kager (Utrecht University)
Chair:  Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University)

14:05-14:35
“The Role of Prosodic Features in Communication Repair: A Study of
Native and Non-native
Speakers of Japanese and German”
Yuki Asano (University of Konstanz)
Chair:  Yukiko Sugiyama (Keio University)

Break

14:55-15:25
“The Disambiguation Effect as a Manifestation of Socio-pragmatic
Competence”
Marina Kalashnikova and Karen Mattock (Lancaster University)
Chair:  Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

15:25-15:55
“Two Types of Benefactives in Child Japanese: A Preliminary
Experimental Study”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)
Chair:  Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

15:55-16:25
“Children's Grammatical Conservatism: Evidence from the Acquisition of
Case-markers and
Postpositions in Japanese”
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Break

16:40-17:40  (Invited Lecture)
"Parser-grammar Interactions in the Acquisition of Syntax"
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

RECEPTION

Day 2 (March 12, 2011)
10:00-10:30
“Grammatical Encoding in the Production of Passive Sentence: Evidence
from Structural
Priming Effects in Japanese”
Ying Deng (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and
Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

10:30-11:00
“Antecedent Selection of a Reflexive Pronoun in Bi-clausal Structure:
An ERP Study in Japanese”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University), Yuki Kobayashi and Takane Ito (The
University of Tokyo)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

11:00-11:30
“Structural Expectations in Chinese Relative Clause Comprehension”
Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John Hale (Cornell University)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

Lunch
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12:30-14:00      Poster Session
“Universals and Uniqueness in Lexical Tone Perception”
Ao Chen and René Kager (Utrecht University)

“Re-examining the ¨NP/DP¨ Parameter in Light of the Diversity of East-
Asian Classifiers”
Youngmi Jeong (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

“Incremental Processing of Gap-filler Dependencies: Evidence from the
Processing of
Subject and Object Clefts in Japanese”
Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Atsushi Sato (Hiroshima
University/Japan
Society for Promotion of Science), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and
Hiromu Sakai
(Hiroshima University)

“String Vacuous Phonetically Inaudible Scrambling in Japanese”
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)
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14:00-14:30
“Uniqueness and Co-variation in Chinese Wh-conditionals”
Qiong-peng Luo and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Chair:  Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

14:30-15:00
“On the Adjunction-based Licensing of the Accusative Wh-adjunct Nani-
o”
Yasuhiro Iida (Osaka University)
 Chair:  Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

15:00-15:30
“That-trace Reconsidered: Definiteness and Complementizer Agreement”
Koji Shimamura (Osaka University)
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)

Break

15:45-16:45  (Invited Lecture)
"Can Eagles That Fly Swim?: Guaranteeing the Simplest Answer to a New
Puzzle“
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)
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