27.2951, Confs: General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Semantics/Poland

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Subject: 27.2951, Confs: General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Semantics/Poland

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:05:24
From: Joanna Blaszczak [joanna.blaszczak at googlemail.com]
Subject: Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and Quantification in Natural Language

Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and Quantification in Natural Language 

Date: 29-Aug-2016 - 31-Aug-2016 
Location: Wroclaw, Poland 
Contact: Joanna Blaszczak 
Contact Email: joanna.blaszczak at googlemail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.ifa.uni.wroc.pl/linguistics/?page_id=235 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The overarching goal of this international conference is to create a forum for
discussion for scholars interested in various aspects of the processing number
and quantification in natural languages, in particular related to the
following research questions:

- Number interpretation of nouns and verbs based on morphology, context and
lexical semantics
- The interpretation of imperfective aspect with a special focus on the
composition of its iterative (plural) and progressive (single-event) readings
- The mental representation of lexical properties of quantifier terms

We are mainly interested in experimental research but studies aiming at
empirical verification of theoretical models will also be taken into
consideration.

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order):

Oliver Bott (University of Tübingen) 
Judith Degen (Stanford University)
Silvia P. Gennari (University of York)
Yosef Grodzinsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Alexis Wellwood (Northwestern University)
Ming Xiang (University of Chicago)

Program:

International conference: Psycholinguistic Investigations into Number and
Quantification in Natural Language
August 29–30, 2016

Venue: 
University of Wroclaw 
Library of the Institute of Polish Studies 

Address:
Wydział Filologiczny (Faculty of Letters)
Instytut Filologii Polskiej (Institute of Polish Studies) 
pl. Nankiera 15b, 
50–140 Wroclaw
Room no. 22

Monday, 29 August

8h30 – 9h00
Registration 

9h00
Opening

Panel 1: Events
Chair: Joanna Błaszczak

9h15 – 10h15
Panel 1
Invited talk 1:
Alexis Wellwood
Northwestern University
Being something worth counting

10h15 – 10h45 Coffee break

10h45 – 11h45
Panel 1
Invited talk 2:
Silvia Gennari
University of York
Event structure and event duration in language comprehension

11h45 – 12h25
Panel 1
Local presentation 1
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Anna Czypionka and Joanna Błaszczak
University of Wrocław and Constance University
Processing eventualities in Polish: Evidence from self-paced reading and
eye-tracking experiments

12h25 – 13h00
Panel 1: Discussion

13h00 – 15h00 Lunch break

Panel 2 : Numbers
Chair: Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

15h00 – 16h00
Panel 2
Invited talk 3:
Yosef Grodzinsky
HUJI, FZ Jülich
The neural dynamics of Verification Procedures: Neurological and linguistic
implications

16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break

16h30 – 17h10
Panel 2
Local presentation 2
Piotr Gulgowski
University of Wrocław
Grammatical number processing in Polish: A psycholinguistic investigation
using Stroop-like interference

17h10 – 17h50
Panel 2
External presentation 1
Katalin É. Kiss and Tamás Zétényi
Research Institute for Linguitics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Linguistic pathway to multiplication

17h50 – 18h30
Panel 2
External presentation 2
Çağatay Taşcı and Duygu Özge
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Interpretation of quantifying expressions in Turkish: Evidence for the exact
interpretation of ‘some’

18h30 – 19h00
Panel 2: Discussion

19h00 – 22h00 Dinner
Venue: 
University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Letters, pl. Nankiera 15b, 50-140 Wrocław
(the inner courtyard)

Tuesday, 30 August

9h00
Opening
Panel 3: Meaning in Context
Chair: Barbara Tomaszewicz

9h15 – 10h15
Panel 3
Invited talk 4:
Ming Xiang
University of Chicago
Processing meaning in context

10h15 – 10h45 Coffee break

10h45 – 11h45
Panel 3
Invited talk 5:
Judith Degen 
Stanford University
Context in scalar implicature processing

11h45 – 12h25
Panel 3
External presentation 3:
Anthea Schöller and Michael Franke 
University of Tübingen
‘Many’ expectation about ‘few’ balls

12h25 – 13h00
Panel 3: Discussion

13h00 – 15h00 Lunch break

Panel 4: Quantifiers
Chair: Piotr Gulgowski

15h00 – 16h00
Panel 4
Invited talk 6:
Oliver Bott
University of Tübingen
The timing of quantifier scope interpretation – 
Eyetracking evidence against incremental processing

16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break

16h30 – 17h10
Panel 4
External presentation 4:
Ana Bosnić and Nataša Knežević 
University of Groningen and University of Nantes 
Spacial distribution and exhaustivity requirement in Serbian

17h10 – 17h50
Panel 4
External presentation 5:
Yaron McNabb
Utrecht University 
Minimum and maximum readings in degree questions with modals

17h50 – 18h30
Panel 4: Discussion

18h30
Closing / Time for individual discussions

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