OBJECTIVES:
The last few decades have seen the revolutionary development of studies on language based on brain and computer sciences, which has remarkably enhanced our knowledge of human language capacity. This forum focuses on mutual contributions between linguistics and brain and computational sciences within the context of experimental and acquisition data in East Asian languages (Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese). Specifically, reports and discussions at this forum center around the issues of how we can establish language-universal principles covering language performance as well as competence and how we can incorporate typological differences into performance-based linguistic theory. |
KEYNOTE SPEECHES:
John A. Hawkins (Cambridge University) An Asymmetry between VO and OV languages: The Ordering of Oblique Phrases (X)
Ruth Kempson (University of London) Grammars as Parsing Formalisms: Narrowing the Competence-Performance Gap
Elaine Andersen and Fuyun Wu (University of Southern California) Do Classifiers Facilitate the Recognition of Relative Clause Structures in Chinese discourse
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INVITED LECTURES
Stephen Matthews and Antonio Cheung (University of Hong Kong), Domain Minimization in Cantonese
Franklin Chang (NTT Communication Sciences Laboratories), Learning to Speak: A Connectionist Model of Syntax Acquisition and Sentence Production
Edson T. Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba), Incremental Processing in Japanese
Tetsuya Hoya and Noriko A. Toyoda (Saitama Institute of Technology), Artificial Intelligence and Language Acquisition: Modeling an Artificial Language Acquisition Mechanism for Representing Inflections of Words within the Ccontext of Artificial Mind System and Kernel Memory
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Admission Free. But prospective participants are kindly requested to send the information by 11 October (Wed) to the COE Secretariat by filling in the registration form below, or by phone, fax or e-mail.
Reception scheduled in the evening of 13 Oct. Fee: JPY5,000, and (Students) JPY2,000. If interested to attend the Reception, please notify the Secretariat by11 October (Wed) by filling in the registration form below, or by phone, fax or e-mail.
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