TCP 2003 Program

[Hitomi Murata]

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be
sponsoring the fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2003)
on March 14 and 15, 2003.

The invited speakers are Prof. Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
and Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan-Bococca).

Below you will find the conference program. For details, visit our web site:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

[ Program ]

Day 1 (March 14，2003)
10:00-10:10  Opening
　　　　　　　  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:10-10:55　　
Luisa Meroni and Stephen Crain (University of Maryland at
College Park)
“How to Eliminate Kindergarten Path Effects”
Chair:  Edson Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science &
Technology)

11:00-11:45　　
Katsuo Tamaoka, Hiromu Sakai, Jun-ichiro Kawahara, Hyunjung
Lim (Hiroshima University) and Yayoi Miyaoka (Hiroshima University
of Economics)
“Priority Information Used for the Processing of Japanese
Sentences: Thematic Roles, Case Particles or Grammatical
Functions?”
Chair:  Edson Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science & Technology)

Lunch

13:00-13:45　　
Tomohiro Fujii (University of Maryland at College Park)
“Licit and Illicit Long Subject-to-Subject Raising”
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

13:50-14:35　　
Kayono Shiobara (University of British Columbia)
“Eliminating Late-merge: Reexamination of Anti-reconstruction Effects”
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

Break

14:50-15:35　　
Yarrow Dunham, Peggy Li and Susan Carey (Harvard University)
“Markedness and the Object-Substance Distinction: New Cross-
Linguistic Evidence”
Chair:  Mari Takahashi (Kyoto Sangyo University)

15:40-16:25
Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
“Do Parameters Have Default Values? Evidence from the Acquisition
of English and Spanish”
Chair:  Mari Takahashi (Kyoto Sangyo University)

16:35-17:35　 　 Invited Lecture
Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
“ ‘Verbal Adjectives’ as Adjectives without Phi-features”
Chair: Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

                Party


Day 2 (March 15，2003)
10:00-10:45　 　
Maki Yamane (Niigata Women's College/University of Connecticut)
“It's Still Dark Here, Flick Another Switch on: Adult L2 Interlanguage
Grammars in the Middle of Parameter Resetting”
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

10:50-11:35　　
Sharon Unsworth (Utrecht University)
“Direct Object Scrambling in Adult and Child L2 Dutch”
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)


11:40-12:25　 　
Elise de Bree (Utrecht University) and Ellen Gerrits (University
Hospital Maastricht)
“Phonological Processing in Young Children at Risk for Developmental
Dyslexia”
Chair:  Haruo Kubozono (Kobe University)

Lunch


14:00-14:45　
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)
“On the Distribution of NPI in Japanese and Phase
Impenetrability Condition”
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

14:50-15:35　
Andrea Gualmini, Luisa Meroni and Stephen Crain (University of
Maryland at College Park)
“Semantic Universals in Child Language”
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

Break

15:50-16:35　
Graciela Tesan and Rosalind Thornton (University of Maryland at
College Park)
“Small Children’s Big Clauses”
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)


16:45-17:45　 　 Invited Lecture
Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan-Bicocca)
“What Can We Learn About Early Grammar from a Crosslinguistic
 Perspective?”
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)


Alternates
1.  Motoki Nakajima (University of Tokyo)
    “The Acquisition of Nominative-Genitive Conversion and Case
    Marker Drop”
2.  Duk-Ho An (University of Connecticut)
    “Specifics of Specifiers: A Case Study of Negation Phrases
    in Korean”
3.  Kaori Hayashi (Sophia University)
    “Interpretational Patterns of Occasional and Restriction on
    their Choice”


For inquires, contact:

TCP Committee
Otsu Lab/Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies　
Keio University
2-14-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
108-8345
E-mail address: tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp