20.1804, Confs: Linguistic Theories/USA

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Date: 08-May-2009
From: Peggy Speas < pspeas at linguist.umass.edu >
Subject: Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition

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Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:16:53
From: Peggy Speas [pspeas at linguist.umass.edu]
Subject: Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition

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Recursion: Complexity in Language and Cognition 

Date: 26-May-2009 - 28-May-2009 
Location: Amherst, MA, USA 
Contact: Peggy Speas 
Contact Email: pspeas at linguist.umass.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/recursionconf/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore how complex structures are created and employed in language and other cognitive domains. The workshop will feature invited speakers from linguistics, biology, psychology, philosophy and computer science, as well as enhanced poster sessions. 

Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
May 26-26 2009

Program

All Talks Take Place in the UMass Campus Center Auditorium

Tuesday, May 26
8-8:45	

Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	

Welcoming remarks

9:00-9:45	
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania  
'Recursion in Language: A View from Mild (Minimal!) Context Sensitivity'

9:45-10:30	
Edward Stabler, UCLA
'Recursion in Grammar and Performance'

10:30- 10:45     
Break

10:45-11:30	
Steve Piantoadosi and Tim O'Donnell, MIT
'A Formal Model of Number Word Acquisition'

11:30-12:15	  
Panel: 
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts
TBA
David Smith, University of Massachusetts

12:15-1:45	
Lunch       
10th Floor, Campus Center

1:45-2:30	
Poster mini-talks

2:-2:30	
Poster session 1

2:30 -3:15	
Hilda Koopman, UCLA
'On The Form of Syntactic Derivations and Restrictions on Recursion'

3:15-4:00	 
Eva Juarros-Daussà, SUNY Buffalo
'Lack of Recursion in the Lexicon: The Two Argument Restriction' 

4:00-4:45 	
Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University
'Taming Recursion' 

4:45-5:00	
Break

5 - 5:45	
Greeting from Chancelellor Robert C. Holub
Panel:    Chris Collins, NYU
Anna Maria di Sciullo, UQAM
Peggy Speas, UMass

6:00 - 7:30	
Dinner, University Club

7:30-8:15	
Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen
Tom Roeper, UMass
'How the Phase-Alternation Constraint on Recursion and Propositional Exclusivity Interact'

8:15-9:00	
Jill de Villiers, Smith College
Title TBA

9:00 - 9:30	
Panel:   Janet Randall, Northeastern University
Diane Lillo-Martin, UConn

UMass Recursion Conference          					
26-28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27

8:00-9:00	
Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:45	
Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
'Anti-recursion and the Ontology of Truth'

9:45-10:30	
Peter Ludlow, University of Toronto
'Expressivist Semantics and Recursion'

10:30- 10:45     
Break

10:45-11:30	
Manfred Krifka, Humbolt University
Title TBA

11:30-12:15	  
Panel: Chris Potts, UMass
Angelika Kratzer, UMass 
Louise Antony, UMass

12:15-1:30	
Lunch

1:30-2:45	
Greetings from Dean Joel Martin
Noam Chomsky, MIT

2:45-3:20	
Poster mini-presentations

3:20 - 4:00	
Poster session 2

4:00 - 4:45	 
David Pesetsky, MIT
Jonah Katz, MIT
'The Recursive Syntax and Prosody of Tonal Music'

4:45 - 5:30	
Ansgar Endress, Harvard University
'Recursion: What Is It, Who Has It and How Can It Be Learned?'

5:30-6:15	
Koji Fujita, Kyoto University
'The Design, Development and Evolution of Unbounded Merge'

6:15 - 7:00	
Panel:   
Juan Uriagereka, UMd
Bruce Byers, UMass
Tom Zoeller, UMass

7:30-	
Party at Tom Roeper's home

UMass Recursion Conference          					               
May 26-28, 2009
Thursday, May 28

8:00-9:00	
Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:45	
Douglas Saddy, University of Reading
Title TBA

9:45-10:30	
Rebecca Saxe, MIT
Title TBA

10:30-10:45	
Break

10: 45-11:30	
Daniel Everett, Illinois State University
''You Drink. You Drive. You Go To Jail. Where's Recursion?'

11:30-12:15	
Lynn Nichols, UC Berkeley
'Subordinate Structures and the Lexicon'

12:15 - 1:00	
Panel:      
Lee Spector, Hampshire College
Uli Sauerland, 
Seth Cable, UMass

Poster Session 1: Tuesday 5/26 

Anja Hubert	
'The Acquisition of Ellipsis and the Recursive Structure of the Noun Phrase'

Vitor Zimmerer Patricia Cowell, Rosemary Varley
University of Sheffield	
'Acquisition of Recursive Rules in Artificial Grammars'

Jörg Bahlmann, Michiru Makuuchi, Jutta Mueller and Angela Friederici, 
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
'Broca's Area and Its Role during the Processing of Hierarchical and Non Hier. Artificial Grammar 
Rules'

Mercedes Marcilese 1, Clara Villarinho 1, Marina Augusto 2, Leticia Corrèa 1
1 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/LAPAL, 2 State University of Rio de Janeiro/LAPAL	
'Cognitive and Ling. Demands in 1st and 2nd Order False Belief Tasks'

Karen Zagona University of Washington	
'Embedded Tenses and Shifted Judgments'

Wayne Cowart, Dana McDaniel 
University of Southern Maine	 
'Grammatical Coordination and the Approximate Number System'

Julia Uddén 1, 2, 3, Susana Araujo 4, Martin Ingvar 2, Christian Forkstam 1, 2, 3, Peter Hagoort 1, 3, Karl 
Magnus Peterson 1,2,3
1 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 2 Stockholm Brain Institute, 3 Donders Institute, 4 Cognitive 
Neuroscience Research Group, Universidade do Algarve	
'Implicit Syntax Learning in Regular and Non 
Reg. Artificial Grammars'

Charles Reiss, Marc Simpson
Concordia University	
'A Recursive Projection Model of Reduplication'

Marilia Costa, Aniela Franca
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
'Theory of Mind Might be False: Recursion and Complex Inferences'

Poster Session 2: Wednesday 5/27 

Maxi Limbach
University of Cologne
'Acquisition Data on Recursive Possessives:  Evidence from FLA and SLA'

Hiroki Narita
Harvard University	
'Cyclic Transfer in Service of Recursive Merge'
Anna Fedor 1, Péter Ittzés 2, Eörs Szathmáry 1,2
1 ELTE, Hungary, 2 Colleguium Budapest
'Recursion in Artificial Grammar Learning Tasks'

Ricard Viñas-de-Puig
Purdue University	
'Recursive V and the Introduction of External Arguments'

Shinchiro Ishihara
University of Potsdam	
'Relative Prominence and Recursion in Phase-based Prosody'

Monica Irimia 
University of Toronto  	
'Secondary Predicates and Recursion'

Michiru Makuuchi, Jörg Bahlmann, Alfred Anwander, Angela Friederici
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences	
'Segregating the Core Computational Faculty of Human Lg. from Working Memory'

Takashi Toyoshima, Fuminori Mizushima, Kyushu Institute of Technology	
'Unsupervised  Computational Learning of Recursion in Language'

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