The 8th International Forum on Language, Brain and Cognition
Linguistics in Cognitive Sciences: Contributions from East Asian Languages
Program: Day 1 and Day 2


Day 1 (13 October)
9:00- Registration/Coffee and Tea
9:30-9:40

Opening Remarks
Kaoru Horie, Director, COE Program, Tohoku U.
Session 1

Chair: Syoichi Iwasaki, COE Program, Tohoku U.
9:40-10:15 Semantic Type and Anaphoric Reference of Internally Headed Relative Clause
Rui Otake, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku U.
10:15-10:50 Effect of Linguistic Similarity on Second Language Processing: An fMRI Study
Hyeonjeong Jeong, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku U.
10:50-11:00

Break
Session 2 Keynote Speech 1
 
Chair: Kaoru Horie, COE Program, Tohoku U.
11:00-12:30 An Asymmetry between VO and OV Languages: The Ordering of Oblique Phrases (X)
 
John A. Hawkins, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge U
12:30-13:40 Lunch
Session 3 Invited Presentation 1  
Chair: Franlin Chang, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
13:40-14:50 On Domain Minimization in Cantonese
Stephen Matthews, Department of Linguistics, U Hong Kong
14:50-15:20 Coffee Break  
Session 4 Invited Presentation 2  
Chair: Daiko Takahashi, COE Program, Tohoku U.
15:20-16:30 Incremental Processing in Japanese
Edson T. Miyamoto, College of Japanese Language and Culture, U Tsukuba
16:30-16:50 Break
Session 5 Keynote Speech 2
Chair: Kei Yoshimoto, COE Program, Tohoku U.
16:50-18:20 Grammars as Parsing Formalisms: Narrowing the Competence-Performance Gap
Ruth Kempson, Dept Philosophy, U London
19:00-21:00 Reception  
 
Day 2 (14 October)

Session 6

Chair: Jorge Riera, COE Program, Tohoku U.
9:30-10:05 Yet Another Sentence Processing Model of English: Sentence Processing Based on Memory, Activation, and Well-formedness
Kei Takahashi, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku U.
10:05-10:40 Japanese EFL Learners and English Relative Clauses: In View of‘Verb-Object Bonding and Main Verb Phrase Processing Efficiency
Satoshi Morimoto, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku U.
10:40-11:15 Left-right Periphery Effects: Evidence for Grammars as Parsers
Jieun Kiaer and Ruth Kempson, Department of Philosophy, U London
11:15-11:30

Break
Session 7 Invited Presentation 3
 
Chair: Prashant Pardeshi, Kobe U.
11:30-12:40 Artificial Intelligence and Language Acquisition - Modeling An Artificial Language Acquisition Mechanism for Representing Inflections of Words Within the Context of Artificial Mind System and Kernel Memory
 

Tetsuya Hoya and Noriko A. Toyoda, Dept. Electronics Engineering, Saitama Inst.Technology, and Dept. Applied Linguistics, Meikai U.
12:40-13:50 Lunch
Session 8 Invited Presentation 4  

Chair: Chen Bai, COE Program, Tohoku U.
13:50-15:00 Learning to Speak: A Connectionist Model of Syntax Acquisition and Sentence Production

Franklin Chang, NTT Communication Sciences Laboratories, NTT Corp.
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break  
Session 9 Keynote Speech 3  
Chair: Stephen Matthews, U Hong Kong
15:20-16:50 Do Classifiers Facilitate the Recognition of Relative Clause Structures in Chinese Discourse?

Elaine Andersen and Fuyun Wu, Dept.Psychology and Dept Linguistics, U Southern California
16:50-16:55 Closing Remarks

Kei Yoshimoto, COE Program, Tohoku U.