The 6thTokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2005)

[Hitomi Murata]

Dear Colleague,

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University
will be sponsoring the sixth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(TCP2005) on March 18 and 19, 2005.

The invited speakers are Prof. Ken Wexler (MIT) and
Prof. Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University).

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

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< Program >
Day 1 (March 18, 2005)

10:00-10:10
Opening            Yukio Otsu  (keio University)

10:10-10:40 (Short Presentation)
"Double-Gapped Relative Clauses in Chinese: Grammar and Processing"
Xuenin Cao (Macau Polytechnique Institute)
Helen  Goodluck  (University of York)
Shan Xing Yuan  (Harbin University of Science and Technology)
Chair:  Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

10:45-11:15 (Short Presentation)
"Bilingual Lexical Processing : Contrastive Polysemies"
Somsukla Banerjee, Achla M. Raina and Harish Karnick
(Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Chair:  Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

11:20-11:50(Short Presentation)
"Evidence for Parsing Universals from Turkish and Japanese"
Sandiway Fong  (University of Arizona)
Chair:  Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

Lunch

13:30-14:15 (Long Presentation)
"Remarks on the Scope of Nominative Objects in Japanese"
Masashi Nomura (University of Connecticut)
Chair:  Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

14:20-15:05  (Long Presentation)
"N’-Ellipsis Reconsidered"
Makoto Kadowaki (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Chair:  Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

Break

15:20-16:05 (Long Presentation)
 "Interpretation of Pronouns in VP-Ellipsis Constructions in Dutch
Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia"
Nada Vasic, Sergey Avrutin and Esther Ruigendijk
(Uil OTS, Utrecht University)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

16:10-16:55 (Long Presentation)
"Cognitive Processes Involved in Parsing Japanese Ditransitives:
an Evenｔ-Related Potential Study"
Ayumi Koso, Hiroko Hagiwara and Takahiro Soshi
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

17:05-18:05
Invited Lecture
"Syntactic Structure of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese:
Behavioral and Imaging Studies"
Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)
Chair:  Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Reception

Day 2 (March 19, 2005)

10:00-10:30 (Short Presentation)
"Examining Perceptual Distance in Phonological Vowel Reduction"
Dylan Herrick (Mie University)
Chair:  Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

10:35:11:05 (Short Presentation)
"Speech Segmentation at the Lexical Level"
Yukiko Asano　  (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Chair:  Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

11:10-11:55 (Long Presentation)
"L2 Poverty of the Stimulus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface:
Quantifier Scope in Non-Native Japanese"
Heather Marsden (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Chair:  Makiko Hirakawa (Tokyo International University)

Lunch

13:30-14:00 (Short Presentation)
"Exclamatives as Comparatives: Evidence from English and Japanese"
Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University)
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

14:05:14:35 (Short Presentation)
"Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft"
Chizuru Nakao and Masaya Yoshida (University of Maryland, College Park)
Chair:  Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

14:40-15:10 (Short Presentation)
"'One'" Issue in Acquisition"
Koji Sugisaki　(Mie University)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

Break

15:25-16:10 (Long Presentation)
"Interpretation of Focus in Chinese: Child vs. Adult Language"
Chunyuan Jing and Stephan Crain (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ching-Fen Hsu (National Yang-Ming University)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

16:15-17:00 (Long Presentation)
"Constraints on Reference in Discourse Fragments"
Anastasia Conroy and Rosalind Thornton (University of Maryland, College
Park)
Chair:  Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

17:10-18:10
Invited Lecture
"The Universal Phase Requirement: A Replacement for the A-Chain Deficit
Hypothesis"
Ken Wexler (MIT)
Chair:  Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)
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