UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE: FORTY YEARS DOWN THE GARDEN PATH
Itziar Laka (UPV/EHU)
Montserrat Sanz (Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Pello Salaburu (UPV/EHU)
PROGRAM
MONDAY, JUNE 28th
9:00 Welcome and Presentation: Itziar Laka and Montserrat Sanz
9:15-10:00 Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Introduction to the course. On the Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures: Themes that have endured.
SESSION 1. THE CROSSLINGUISTIC BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Chair of the session: Itziar Laka
10:00-11:00 Jacques Mehler SISSA-ISAS CNS, Trieste
Languages in the infant brain
11:00-12:00 Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Brain, Cognition and Language
Mechanisms of Agreement
12:00-12:30 BREAK
12:30-13:30 Yosef Grodzinsky McGuill University
Changing perspectives on the functional role of some language regions in the brain
13:30-16:30 LUNCH
16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION:
The Crosslinguistic Brain and Language
Theme discussant: Douglass Saddy
Participants: Tanenhaus, Mehler, Carreiras, Grodzinsky
JUNE 29th, TUESDAY
SESSION 2. THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS
Chair of the session: Montserrat Sanz (Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
10:00-11:00 Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, University of Arizona
Comprehension, production and linearization in a new evolutionary perspective
11:00-12:00 Ina Bornkessel, University of Marburg, Germany
Neurotypology: Modelling cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the neurocognition of language comprehension
12:00-12:30 BREAK
12:30-13:30 Edward Stabler UCLA
Syntax, semantics and pragmatics in incremental interpretation
13:30-14:30 Thomas Bever, University of Arizona
Where do Linguistic Universals come from?
14:30-16:30 LUNCH
16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION:
The Evolution of Language and Language Universals
Theme discussant: Colin Phillips
Participants: Piatelli-Palmarini, Saddy, Stabler and Bever
JUNE 30th, WEDNESDAY
SESSION 3. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION
Chair of the session: Itziar Laka (University of the Basque Country)
9:00:10:00 Maryellen C. MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Production Basis of Language Comprehension: Evidence from Relative Clauses
10:00-11:00 Gary Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Implicit learning in the language production system is revealed in speech errors
11:00-12:00 Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology, U. Ferrara
From Action to Language: Evidence and Speculations
12:00-12:30 BREAK
12:30-13:30 William Idsardi, University of Maryland
Statistical generalizations in language behaviors
13:30-14:30 Charles Lin, Indiana University.
Down the head-final garden path: Understanding the processing asymmetries of head-final relative clauses
14:30-16:30 LUNCH
16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION:
The Relations between Language Production and Perception
Theme discussant: Thomas Bever
Participants: MacDonald, Dell, Fadiga, Idsardi, Lin
JULY 1st, THURSDAY
SESSION 4. THE GARDEN PATH TODAY – COMPREHENSION MODELS
Chair of the Session: Montserrat Sanz
9:00-10:00 Sonia Kotz, Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Neural correlates of agreement: locality, distance, and sentence complexity.
10:00-11:00 Gerry Altmann, University of York
Anticipating the garden path: the horse raced past the barn ate the cake
11:00-12:00 Michael Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Real time ambiguity resolution in interactive conversation
12:00-12:30 BREAK
12:30-13:30 Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
Grammatical Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't
13:30-16:30 LUNCH
16:30:17:30 ROUND TABLE AND GENERAL DISCUSSION:
The Garden Path Today- Comprehension Models
Theme discussant: Yosef Grodzinsky
Participants: Kotz, Tanenhaus, Altmann, Stabler, Phillips
17:30-18:30 CONCLUSIONS AND PREDICTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH:
Thomas Bever University of Arizona