TCP2012 Program (The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics)

[Nakamura, Kei]

The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2012)

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies of Keio University
will be sponsoring the thirteenth Tokyo Conference on
Psycholinguistics
(TCP 2012) on March 9 and 10, 2012 to be held at Kita-kan Hall,
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo.

The invited speakers are Dr. Charles Yang/University of Pennsylvania
and Dr. Shoichi Takahashi/Hitotsubashi University.
For details, visit our website:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

(TCP 2012 Program)
Day 1 (March 9, 2012)

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

13:05-13:35
“Do You Know All SI? I Know Some. Give Children a Reason to Compute
SI.”
Luisa Meroni and Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht University)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

13:35-14:05
“Japanese Children's Interpretation of a Disjunction in Comparative
Sentences
and Negative Sentences”
Emi Komine (Meiji Gakuin University)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:05-14:35
“Japanese-Speaking Children's Interpretation of Measure Phrase
Comparatives”
Tomoe Arii (University of Tokyo)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

Break
14:55-15:25
“Non-Individuation and Free Choice Items in Japanese”
Shinobu Mizuguchi (Kobe University)
Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

15:25-15:55
“Wh-Movement and Inversion in Spanish: A Visual Analogue Scale
Analysis”
Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Luisa Martí (University of Kent) and
Satoru
Yokoyama (Tohoku University)
Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

15:55-16:25
“-To in Japanese as an NPI Scalar Focus Particle”
Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University), Takaomi Kato (Tokyo University of
Science)
and Hiroki Narita (Waseda University)
Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

Break
16:40-17:40 (Invited Lecture)
“Asymmetries in Movement and a Theory of Merger”
Shoichi Takahashi (Hitotsubashi University)
Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
RECEPTION

Day 2 (March 10, 2012)
10:00-10:30
“L2 Knowledge at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Interpretations of
Reflexives
by Japanese, Korean, and Chinese ESL Learners”
Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka), Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio
State University),
Koichi Sawasaki, Atsushi Fujimori and Hiroya Shimizu (University of
Shizuoka)
Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

10:30-11:00
“Sentence Processing of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese by
Turkish Speaking
Learners and Native Speakers”
Barış Kahraman (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

11:00-11:30
“Parsing Semantic Ambiguity: Strategies and Commitments”
Luisa Meroni (Utrecht University), Francesca Foppolo, Marco Marelli
(University of Milano-Bicocca)
and Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht University)
Chair: Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)
Lunch
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12:30-14:00 Poster Session
“Modeling of Coreference Relations in Multi-Object Constructions”
Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) and Jason Ginsburg (The
University of Aizu)
“Interpretation of Elided Bare Nouns in L2 Japanese”
Tomoko Monou (Keio University)
“How Do Children Map Verbs onto Subcomponents of a Causative Event?”
Kyoko Sakamoto (Hiroshima University/JSPS), Noburo Saji (JSPS/Keio
University),
Mutsumi Imai (Keio University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima
University)
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14:00-14:30
“QR in Child Japanese and the CNPC”
Hiroyuki Shimada
Chair: Takuya Goro (Tsuda College)

14:30-15:00
“Are Mandarin-Speaking Children in Early Control?”
Cheng Yang and Xiaolu Yang (Tsinghua University)
Chair: Takuya Goro (Tsuda College)

15:00-15:30
“Children’s Acquisition of English Datives: Competing Parametric
Accounts”
Soyoung Eom and William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Takuya Goro (Tsuda College)

Break
15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture)
“Learning Exceptions”
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

*Alternates
“Interpretation of Elided Bare Nouns in L2 Japanese”
Tomoko Monou (Keio University)
“A Transitive/Intransitive Pair with Inalienable Possession Relation
in Japanese”
Mitsue Motomura (Osaka University of Economics)
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