The 14th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2013) Call for Participation & Program

[Nakamura, Kei]

The 14th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2013)

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies of Keio University
will be sponsoring the fourteenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(TCP 2013) on March 8 and 9, 2013 to be held at Kita-kan Hall,
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo.

The invited speakers are Dr. Caterina Donati/Sapienza University of Rome

and Dr. Hiromu Sakai/Hiroshima University.

For details, visit our website:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
TCP 2013 Program

Day 1 (March 8, 2013)
Special Session
10:30-11:45
"Language Acquisition from a Minimalist Perspective: Some Concepts and 
Consequences"
Wayne O’Neil (MIT)

Lunch

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

13:05-13:35 
“Zibun-anaphora in Child Japanese and Nominative Objects in Potential 
Sentences”
Yoshiki Fujiwara (Meiji Gakuin University)

13:35-14:05
“The Scope of Bare Nouns and Numeral Phrases: An Experimental Study of 
Child Mandarin”
Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Zhuang Wu (Chinese 
University 
of Hong Kong/ Xiangtan University)

14:05-14:35
“Child-Adult Parallels on Scope Ambiguity Resolution in Mandarin Chinese”
Yi-ching Su (National Tsing Hua University), Chia-Ying Lee (Academia 
Sinica) and 
Jie-Li Tsai (National Chengchi University) 

Break

14:55-15:25 
“Prosody and the Syntax of Wh-question Formation in Tokyo Japanese and 
Kumamoto 
Yatsushiro Japanese”
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University) 

15:25-15:55 
“Comparatives and Degree Nominals”
Fumio Mohri and Kaye Takeda (Fukuoka University)

15:55-16:25
“A Head Movement Analysis of Complement/Adjunct Asymmetries in Japanese 
Te-clauses” 
Shintaro Hayashi and Tomohiro Fujii (Yokohama National University)

Break

16:40-17:40 (Invited Lecture)
“The Claim that Linguists Made: Testing Experimentally a Syntactic 
Analysis” 
Caterina Donati (Sapienza University of Rome) 
(Joint work with Carlo Cecchetto and Mirta Vernice (University of 
Milano-Bicocca)

RECEPTION

Day 2 (March 9, 2013)
10:00-10:30 
“Metrical Segmentation in a Cross-linguistic Perspective”
Sandrien van Ommen and René Kager (Utrecht University)

10:30-11:00 
“Null Subjects and Topic-drop in L2 Japanese: Some Implications to the 
Interface Hypothesis”
Mika Kizu (Kobe University/University of London) and Kazumi Yamada (Kwansei 
Gakuin University)

11:00-11:30
“The Emergence of the Unmarked in L2 Acquisition: Interpreting Null 
Subjects” 
Tomoko Monou (Keio University) and Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University)

Lunch
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12:30-14:00 Poster Session
“Numerosity in Child Language: An Experimental Study of the Numerical 
Wh-pronoun ji ‘How-many’
in Mandarin Chinese”
Aijun Huang and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)

“How Syntactic is Syntactic Priming? An Experimental Study on Japanese 
Passives”
Megumi Ishikawa and Takuya Goro (Tsuda College)

“Reconstruction Effects on A-movement Reconsidered”
Yoshiyuki Shibata (University of Connecticut)

“The Development of Long-distance Zibun: Roles of L1 and L2 in L3 
Acquisition”
Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka), Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio 
State University/ National 
Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), Koichi Sawasaki, Atsushi 
Fujimori (University of Shizuoka) 
and Baris Kahraman (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
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14:00-14:30
“Exploring the Two-grammar Hypothesis for Korean: Scopal Interaction of 
Object QPs and Negation”
Erica Yoon and Junko Shimoyama (McGill University)

14:30-15:00
“Evidence for Word-internal Pre-head Processing of Novel Compounds”
Yuki Hirose, Takefumi Ohki (The University of Tokyo) and Reiko Mazuka 
(RIKEN Brain Science Institute) 

15:00-15:30 
“Surprising Surprisal: No Free Lunch During Sentence Comprehension”
Manabu Arai (The University of Tokyo/Japan Society for the Promotion of 
Science), Edson T. Miyamoto 
(University of Tsukuba), Chie Nakamura (Keio University/ Japan Society for 
the Promotion of Science) and 
Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo)

Break

15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture)
“Neurocognitive Mechanisms for Agreement Computation: A View from an ERP 
Study on Japanese 
Honorific Processing”
Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

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