29.1591, Confs: Ling Theories, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1591. Fri Apr 13 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1591, Confs: Ling Theories, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:18:20
From: Ivy Sichel [isichel at ucsc.edu]
Subject: Pronouns in Competition

 
Pronouns in Competition 

Date: 27-Apr-2018 - 28-Apr-2018 
Location: Santa Cruz California, USA 
Contact: Ivy Sichel 
Contact Email: pronouns-group at ucsc.edu 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/pronounsincompetition 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

If you plan to attend and are not a speaker, please rsvp to Ivy Sichel at
isichel at ucsc.edu so that we can get an estimate of the number of attendees.
Space is limited. Thanks!

Long distance dependencies involving pronouns have figured prominently both in
theories of competence and in theories of performance. Bringing these diverse
lines of inquiry closer together is a challenging, yet fundamental, goal for
linguistic theory. In this workshop we propose to study the role(s) that
competition and optimality may play in these domains. 

The idea that the distribution of pronouns, even some aspects of their
interpretation, may be governed by competition with a more optimal
alternative, is not new. However, so far relatively little progress has been
made towards a general theory of pronominal competitions and especially on the
question of how the candidate set for comparison is determined. We propose to
broaden the empirical domain of inquiry by considering pronominal competitions
of various kinds, and across languages: between pronouns and anaphors,
pronouns and gaps in A-bar dependencies, pronouns and demonstratives, overt
vs. null pronouns, pronouns and definite descriptions (in ‘Condition C’
effects) and so on.

The idea that competition plays a role in sentence processing has long been
recognized and it is inherent in computational models of constraint
satisfaction as well as in theories of encoding and retrieval from working
memory. In the past decade especially, the empirical breadth of sentence
processing research on pronouns has increased dramatically. And interestingly
there are many recent experiments on bound pronouns (primarily reflexives, but
also resumptives) that give evidence that initial interpretive processes can
be selective and non-competitive. So an important goal of the workshop will be
to consider whether or how notions of competition that can explain
distributional facts about pronouns are related to mechanisms of sentence
production and comprehension. We also hope that discussions which take place
might guide future explorations of the territory.

Invited Speakers:

- Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard)
- Elsi Kaiser (USC)
- Aya Meltzer-Asscher (Tel Aviv)
- Ken Safir (Rutgers)
- Shayne Sloggett (Northwestern)
- Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig)

Organizers:

Jim McCloskey
Ivy Sichel
Matt Wagers
 

Program: 

Friday, April 27, HUM1 room 210
9:15-9:30:
Welcome and Setting the Scene
Jim McCloskey, Ivy Sichel, Matt Wagers

9:30-10:30:
Do anaphors compete with anything?
Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard)

10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-11:45:
Competition among Pronouns in Chamorro Grammar and Sentence Processing
Sandra Chung & Matt Wagers (UC Santa Cruz)

11:45-12:30:
Perspectives for Pronouns and Reflexives
Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)

12:30-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00:
Processing pressures and Locality in English reflexive comprehension
Shayne Sloggett (Northwestern)

3:00-3:15: Break

3:15-4:00:
Everyone left the room except the logophor: *ABA patterns in pronominal
morphology
Jane Middleton (University College London)

4:00-5:00:
TBA
Ken Safir (Rutgers)

Saturday, April 28, HUM1 room 210:

8:45-9:30: Continental Breakfast [HUM1 room 202]

9:30-10:30;
Resumption, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing?
Aya Meltzer-Asscher (Tel Aviv University)

10:30-11:15:
English resumptive pronouns hinder comprehension
Adam Milton Morgan, Titus von der Malsburg*, Victor S. Ferreira, & Eva
Wittenberg (UC San Diego, *U. Potsdam)

11:15-12:00:
Observations and speculations concerning resumption (in Irish)
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)

12:00-2:00: Poster session and Lunch

2:00-3:00:
Silent pro-forms in competition: tracing PRO and pro to a single source
Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig); joint work with Thomas McFadden (ZAS Berlin)

3:00-3:15: Break

3:15-4:00: 
Demonstrative pronouns, appraisal, and competition
Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz)

4:00-5:00:
TBA
Elsi Kaiser (USC)

6:00: Workshop Party

Poster Session:

Kirby Conrod, Washington U: What does it mean to agree? Coreference with
singular they.
Alexander Goebel, UMass: On German d-pronouns as anti-logophoric: Limiting a
competition-based account.
Christopher Hammerly, UMass: Intrusive resumption can ameliorate island
violations in real-time comprehension.
Ivona Kucerova, McMaster U: Anaphors and logophors differ in timing: Evidence
from 
comitative constructions.
Nicholas LaCara, Toronto: Anaphoric one: When ellipsis is blocked.
Thomas McFadden, Leibniz ZAS: Pronominal competition involves realization and 
interpretation, not licensing.
Louise Raynaud, Göttingen: What’s in an anaphor? [ID]-features in anaphoric
agreement.
Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, UMass: No condition B? Context-dependent surface form
preference!





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