The 5thTokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics(TCP 2004)

[Hitomi Murata]

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University
will be sponsoring the fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(TCP2004) on March 12 and 13, 2004.

The invited speakers are Prof. Kenneth J. Safir (Rutgers University)
and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University).

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

< Program >
Day 1 (March 12，2004)
10:00-10:10  Opening
Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:10-10:55
Miwa Isobe(Senshu University), Natsuko Katsura, Masatoshi Koizumi,
Yumi Sakai(Tohoku University), Kuniya Nasukawa(Tohoku Gakuin
University), Koji Sugisaki(Mie University) and Noriaki Yusa(Miyagi
Gakuin Women's University)
"The Syntax of Ditransitives in Japanese: A View from Acquisition"
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

11:00-11:45
Luisa Meroni, Stephen Crain(University of Maryland at College Park)
 and Andrea Gualmini(MIT)
"Definiteness in Child Language"
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

13:00-13:45
Utako Minai and Luisa Meroni(University of Maryland at College Park)
"Children's Knowledge of Entailments at a Distance"
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

13:50-14:35　　
Hirohisa Kiguchi (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) and Edson Miyamoto
(University of Tsukuba / Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
"MEG Responses in the Comprehension of Japanese Sentences"
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

14:50-15:35
Tomohiro Fujii (University of Maryland at College Park)
"Multiple Zibun: Evidence for Reflexive Movement"
Chair:  Akira Watnabe (University of Tokyo)

15:40-16:25
Tomokazu Takehisa(McGill University)
"Reflexives and Split Intransitivity"
Chair:  Akira Watnabe (University of Tokyo)

16:35-17:35　 　 Invited Lecture
Kenneth J. Safir(Rutgers University)
"Extension and Insularity"
Chair:  Akira Watnabe (University of Tokyo)


                 Party

Day 2 (March 13，2004)
10:00-10:45
Duk-Ho An(University of Connecticut)　
"A Floating Analysis of Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Korean
and Japanese"
Chair:  Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

10:50-11:35
Yukio Furukawa(McGill University)
"The Specificity Condition is an Instance of Crossover."
Chair:  Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

11:40-12:25　 　
Hiromu Sakai, Katsuo Tamaoka, Jun-Ichiro Kawahara,Daisuke Fujiki
and Michiko Fukuda(Hiroshima University)
"Priming and Blocking in the Processing of Japanese Verb Morphology"
Chair:  Yuki Hirose (University of Electro-Communications)

14:00-14:45　
Michiko Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology),
Edson Miyamoto(University of Tsukuba / Nara Institute of Science
and Technology) and Shoichi Takahashi(MIT)
“The Influence of Word-Order and Prosody in the Comprehension
of Ambiguous Relative Clauses in Japanese”
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

14:50-15:35　
Jeffrey Witzel(University of Electro-Communications/ Sophia University)
and Naoko Ouchi Witzel(Kaisei Gakuen)
"Conceptual Access from the L2 in Less-Fluent and Fluent Bilinguals"
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

15:50-16:35
Chieko Kuribara(Kansai University)
"Structural Similarity as a Cause of "Misanalysis" in SLA: How Japanese
Learners Analyse the Left-Periphery of English Sentences"
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

16:45-17:45　 　 Invited Lecture
Lydia White(McGill University)
"Plato's Problem in Reverse: Apparent Lack of Acquisition Despite
Presence of Evidence"
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

Alternates:
1.  Takuya Goro(University of Maryland at College Park/Sophia University)
    and Sachie Akiba(Sophia University)
    "Japanese Disjunction and the Acquisition of Positive Polarity"

2.  Bosook Kang(University of Connecticut)
    "Trigger for Acquisition of Scrambling"

For further information, contact:

Yukio Otsu (Director)
Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies
Keio University
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
108-8345 Japan

or, send an e-mail message to the TCP Committee:

tcp at otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp