20 March 2011

CUNY Conference meets this week

The 24th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will be held March 24-26 at Stanford University. The schedule is full of papers from past and present members of the linguistics department, including:

papers:
"Pragmatic Constraints Influence the Restoration of Optional Subjects" by Jennifer Mack, Charles Clifton, Jr. and Lyn Frazier

"Processing contrast versus implicature: the role of intonation and discourse" by Heeyeon Y. Dennison and Amy J. Schafer

posters:
Aging effects and working memory in garden-path recovery Hyunsoo Yoo and Michael Walsh Dickey

Contrasting interference profiles for agreement and anaphora: Experimental and modeling evidence Brian Dillon, Alan Mishler, Shayne Sloggett and Colin Phillips

Processing and Domain Selection: Quantificational Variability Effects Jesse Harris, Charles Clifton, Jr. and Lyn Frazier

Does semantic focus influence lexical processing? Evidence from eye movements Ashley Benatar, Charles Clifton and Adrian Staub

Parallelism and the Incremental Processing of Ellipsis Masaya Yoshida, Katy Carlson and Michael Dickey

The where and when of anticipatory eye movements in the visual world paradigm Adrian Staub, Matthew Abbott and Richard Bogartz