16.3278, Confs: Psycholing/Cognitive Science/Potsdam, Germany

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Subject: 16.3278, Confs: Psycholing/Cognitive Science/Potsdam, Germany

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Date: 14-Nov-2005
From: Shravan Vasishth < vasishth at acm.org >
Subject: Polarity meets Psycholinguistics 

	
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:30:46
From: Shravan Vasishth < vasishth at acm.org >
Subject: Polarity meets Psycholinguistics 
 



Polarity meets Psycholinguistics 
Short Title: PmP05 

Date: 08-Dec-2005 - 09-Dec-2005 
Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany 
Contact: Shravan Vasishth 
Contact Email: vasishth at acm.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/PmP05/PolarityWorkshop05.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Motivation and theme

Research on negative and positive polarity items has a rich tradition in 
linguistic theory. Most of the debates have revolved around the question, 
what are the linguistic constraints on polarity items? The answers to 
this question have usually focused on semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, and 
metalinguistic factors. Interestingly, there has been relatively little 
work on the connection between polarity licensing and real-time language 
processing. The present workshop is an attempt to change this.

Polarity is an interesting test case both for processing theories and 
linguistic theory: It is interesting for psycholinguists because polarity 
is a quintessentially linguistic phenomenon, but has significant 
processing issues associated with it, such as the real-time resolution of 
the licensor-licensee dependency in negative polarity, and an anti-
dependency with respect to negative contexts in the case of positive 
polarity items. For theoretical linguistics, an experimentally grounded 
approach can help to provide an empirical basis for theoretical debates 
about polarity licensing and, perhaps, even fundamentally shift 
theoretical stances.

The present workshop aims to explore the relationship between the purely 
linguistic constraints on polarity licensing and real-time processing 
constraints on language in general. In order to facilitate the 
interaction between processing and polarity research, we have invited a 
range of speakers, some engaged in empirical research, and others in 
theoretical. 

Location and registration details

The workshop will be held in Haus 14, Room 45, in the Golm campus of the 
University of Potsdam. There are no registration fees and everyone is 
welcome to attend. But, and this is very important, if you are planning 
to attend the workshop, please inform Shravan Vasishth at: 
vasishth at acm.org 

Program
Talks are 45 minutes each, with 15 minutes for discussion. The exact 
start and end times will be provided soon.
Dec 8, 2005

 10-11 Heiner Drenhaus, Joanna Blaszczak, Juliane Schuette: When simple 
downward entailment does not work: An ERP study on Negative-Polarity-
Items in German

 11-12 Peter beim Graben, Heiner Drenhaus, Doug Saddy, and Stefan Frisch: 
On the processing of Negative Polarity constructions using the Symbolic 
Resonance Analysis

 12-13:30 Lunch break

 13:30-14:30 Shravan Vasishth, Richard Lewis, and Heiner Drenhaus: 
Processing constraints on polarity: Converging evidence from eyetracking, 
ERP, and speeded acceptability ratings

 14:30-15:30 Manfred Sailer: A Collocational Theory of Negative Polarity 
Item Licensing

Dec 9, 2005

 10-11 Laurence Horn: NPIs that are barely licensed: Polarity, 
entailment, and implicature

 11-12 Tessa Warren and Masako Hirotani: Memory influences on the 
processing of Negative Polarity Items

 12-13:30 Lunch break

 13:30-14:30 Doug Saddy: A cortical smile

 14:30-15:30 Manfred Krifka: Title TBA

 15:30-16 Coffee break

 16-17 Ira Noveck: Title TBA





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