Program

 8-9am            

Breakfast

Welcome

Chair: Fernanda Ferreira

9-9:45am

** Towards a computational model of conceptualisation during human reference production

Emiel Krahmer

9:45-10:15am

Parses of corrected errors persist

L. Robert Slevc

10:15-10:45am

Why do readers answer questions incorrectly after reading garden-path sentences?

Zhiying Qian, Susan Garnsey and Kiel Christianson

10:45-11:15am

Break

Chair: Peter Gordon

11:15-11:45am

** Adaptation to unexpected word-forms in highly predictive sentential contexts

Shaorong Yan and Thomas Farmer

11:45-12:15pm

** Early dependency of frequency on predictability across and within both hemispheres

Yoana Vergilova, Heiner Drenhaus and Matthew Crocker

12:15-12:45pm

Eye-movements during reading and their relationship to the P200 and N400

Giulia Christine Pancani, Peter Gordon, Renske S. Hoedemaker, Matthew Lowder and Mariah Moore

12:45-2:45pm

Poster session 1 (Lunch provided)

Chair: Matthew Crocker

2:45-3:15pm

The advantage of starting big: learning from unsegmented input facilitates mastery of grammatical gender in an artificial language

Noam Siegelman and Inbal Arnon

3:15-3:45pm

The limits of associative learning in cross-situational word learning

Felix Wang and Toby Mintz

3:45-4:15pm

Retrieval interference in spoken language comprehension

Irina Sekerina, Luca Campanelli and Julie Van Dyke

4:15-4:45pm

Break

Chair: Edith Kaan

4:45-5:15pm

Inter-subject correlations of cortical activity during natural language processing in language-selective regions but not working-memory regions

Idan Blank and Evelina Fedorenko

5:15-5:45pm

** Predicting form and meaning: Evidence from ERPs

Aine Ito, Martin Corley, Martin J. Pickering, Andrea E. Martin, and Mante S. Nieuwland

5:45-6:30pm

** Linguistic experience and speech recognition under adverse listening conditions

Ann Bradlow

8-9am

Breakfast

Chair: Irina Sekerina

9-9:45am

** Phonetic detail as a source of psycholinguistic data

Susanne Gahl

9:45-10:15am

Dynamic engagement of cognitive control facilitates recovery from misinterpretation

Nina Hsu and Jared Novick

10:15-10:45am

Cue strength and executive function in agreement comprehension

Laurel Brehm, Erika Hussey and Kiel Christianson

 10:45-10:55am

Annoucement of the

Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award,

and other brief items

10:55-11:15am

Break

Chair: Sun-Ah Jun

11:15-11:45am

Using prosody to infer discourse status in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners

Yi Ting Huang, Rochelle Newman, Allison Catalano and Matthew Goupell

11:45-12:15pm

** Focusing on contrast sets: Motivating Mandarin Chinese restrictive relative clauses in comprehension and production

Chien-Jer Charles Lin

12:15-12:45pm

** Prediction in the processing of repair disfluencies

Matthew Lowder and Fernanda Ferreira

12:45-2:45pm

Poster session 2 (Lunch provided)

Chair: Janet Fodor

2:45-3:15pm

** The role of adverbial modification on the prediction of upcoming verbs: An ERP study in German

Vera Demberg, Evangelia Kiagia and Francesca Delogu

3:15-3:45pm

Give me several hundred more milliseconds: the temporal dynamics of verb prediction.

Shota Momma, Hiromu Sakai and Colin Phillips

3:45-4:15pm

Contextual enrichment explains aspectual coercion

David Townsend and Kerry McDermott

4:15-4:45pm

Break

***Conference will move for the remainder of the day to Town & Gown on the USC campus.  Directions will be provided.***

Chair: Colin Phillips

4:45-5:15pm

Comprehension of case in German children: Evidence against a maturational hypothesis

Duygu Özge, Jaklin Kornfilt, Katja Münster, Pia Knoeferle, Aylin Küntay and Jesse Snedeker

5:15-5:45pm

** Prune early or prune late? Surprisal will cost you either way

Shodai Uchida, Manabu Arai, Edson T. Miyamoto and Yuki Hirose

5:45-6:30pm

** Not when – but how, and what?

Roger Levy

7:30pm–9:30pm

Conference party (at the Continental Club; pre-registration required)

8-9am

Breakfast

Chair: Victor Ferreira

9-9:45am

** Predictability and Planning in Reference Production

Jennifer E. Arnold

9:45-10:15am

Visual grouping affects number agreement production

Laurel Brehm

10:15-10:45am

A cross-linguistic model of production and comprehension in visual worlds

Franklin Chang and Andrew Jessop

10:45-11:15am

Break

Chair: Matt Wagers

11:15-11:45am

** N400 semantic expectation effects provide evidence for rapid pronoun resolution

Sol Lago, Anna Namyst and Ellen Lau

11:45-12:15pm

Syntax or discourse? Processing implicit control from passives

Michael McCourt, Jeffrey Jack Green, Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams

12:15-12:45pm

Does wh-filler-gap dependency formation resolve local ambiguity? 

Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida

12:45-2:45pm

Poster session 3 (Lunch provided)

Chair: Jeff Runner

2:45-3:15pm

Verb phrase ellipsis: Evidence for the semantic account

Alison Hall, Jinying Zheng and Ye Tian

3:15-3:45pm

Pseudo relatives are easier than relative clauses: evidence from Tense

Nino Grillo, Barbara Hemforth, Céline Pozniak and Andrea Santi

3:45-4:15pm

Relative clause production in Spanish: Disentangling grammatical function assignment and constituent assembly processes

Laura Rodrigo, Hiromu Sakai and Jose Manuel Igoa

4:15-4:45pm

Break

Chair: Jennifer Arnold

4:45-5:15pm

** Perspective-taking: a domain-general cognitive ability?

Rachel Ryskin, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Jonathan Tullis and Aaron Benjamin

5:15-5:45pm

** Speakers do not adapt their syntactic production to their listeners’ preferences

Rachel Ostrand, Benjamin Bergen and Victor Ferreira

5:45-6:30pm

** Robust language understanding in a variable world (and implications for production)

T Florian Jaeger