14.1507, Confs: Japanese/Psycholinguistics/MI USA

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Date:  Thu, 22 May 2003 09:08:26 +0000
From:  etm at is.aist-nara.ac.jp
Subject:  Japanese Language Processing Workshop

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Date:  Thu, 22 May 2003 09:08:26 +0000
From:  etm at is.aist-nara.ac.jp
Subject:  Japanese Language Processing Workshop


Japanese Language Processing Workshop

Date: 25-Jul-2003 - 25-Jul-2003
Location: East Lansing - MI, United States of America
Contact: Edson Miyamoto
Contact Email: etm at is.aist-nara.ac.jp
Meeting URL: http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~etm/jlp

Linguistic Sub-field: Psycholinguistics
Subject Language Family: Japanese Family

This is a session of the following conference: LSA 2003 Institute

Meeting Description:

Japanese Language Processing Workshop
July 25-26, 2003
Michigan State University

The 4th Japanese Language Processing Workshop will take place July
25-26, 2003 as part of the Linguistic Society of America Summer
Institute 2003, at Michigan State University.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in
Japanese psycholinguistics to discuss theoretical and methodological
issues related to current research. Topics include syntactic,
morphological, and prosodic factors in human language processing. The
following are some of the basic questions to be considered.

    * How do people process individual words and associate them with
      each other in order to extract the meaning of a sentence?

    * To what extent is this process similar cross-linguistically?

    * What is the role of grammatical constraints in this process?
      How do they interact with other sources of information such as
      world knowledge and with the availability of cognitive
      resources?

The workshop will include tutorial sessions, which will survey
necessary background for the discussions, with special emphasis on the
sentence-level comprehension and production of Japanese and related
languages.

Workshop dates: July 25-26, 2003
C312 Wells Hall Michigan State University

Organizers: Edson T. Miyamoto (NAIST) and Hiroko Yamashita (RIT)

For further information, email: jlpw2003 at quince.aist-nara.ac.jp
Or visit the webpage of the workshop:
        http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/~etm/jlp


- ----------------------- Preliminary Program ------------------------

July 25, 2003

Introduction

1:00-1:40 Progress in Japanese sentence processing research:
          What have we learned since the 1991 Duke workshop?
          Reiko Mazuka (Duke U.)


Processing difficulty and working memory

1:40-2:20 Tutorial
          Mineharu Nakayama (Ohio State U.)

2:20-3:00 Individual differences in Japanese sentence processing
          Nobuyuki Jincho (Waseda U.) and Reiko Mazuka (Duke U.)


3:00-3:20 Break


Production

3:20-4:00 Tutorial
          Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)

4:00-4:40 Given-new ordering and the stages of language production:
          Insights from Japanese
          Victor Ferreira and Hiromi Yoshita (U. California San Diego)

4:40-5:20 Syntactic priming in Japanese and architecture of language
          production
          Hiroko Yamashita (RIT), Yuki Hirose (U. Electro
          Communications) and Franklin Chang (Max Planck Institute for
          Evolutionary Anthropology)

5:20-6:00 Picture word interference experiments in Japanese:
          Semantic similarity and grammatical class in naming action
          Noriko Iwasaki, David P. Vinson and Gabriella Vigliocco (U.
          College London)


6:30-8:00 Dinner



July 26, 2003

Incremental processing and long-distance dependencies

10:30-11:10 Tutorial
            Edson T. Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science and
            Technology)

11:10-11:50 Grammar and real-time formation of wh-dependencies
            Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips and Amy Weinberg (U.
            Maryland)

11:50-12:30 Storage, integration and incrementality
            Kentaro Nakatani (Harvard U.)


12:30-2:00 Lunch


Prosody

2:00-2:40 Tutorial
          Shari Speer (Ohio State U.), Amy Schafer (U. Hawaii) and
          Paul Warren (Victoria U.)

2:40-3:20 How prosodic information is used in the grammar and processor:
          Processing Japanese wh-questions
          Masako Hirotani (U. Massachusetts Amherst)


3:20-3:40 Break


Neurolinguistics

3:40-4:20 Tutorial
          Susan Garnsey (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

4:20-5:00 The processing of Japanese wh-questions:
          An event-related brain potential study
          Mieko Ueno and Robert Kluender (U. California San Diego)

5:00-5:40 How does focus-related prosodic mismatch affect brainwaves
          in Japanese?
          Kiwako Itoh (Ohio State U.) and Susan Garnsey (UIUC)


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