International Forum

The Fourth International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition:
Cognition, Brain, and Typology: Toward a Synthesis
(The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities)

Date: Sunday and Monday, 12-13 September 2004
Venue: Kawauchi-kita Campus Multi-media Hall,
Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8576 Japan (Map/Access)

The Program is here.

Admission Free

第４回「言語・脳・認知」国際学術フォーラム
認知・脳・類型論：融合に向けて
東北大学21世紀COEプログラム（言語認知総合科学）

■ 日時：2004年9月12日（日）-13日（月）
■　場所：東北大学川内北キャンパスマルチメディア教育研究棟２階ホール
（地図・アクセス)

プログラムはこちら

入場無料・一般来聴歓迎

招待講演 Invited Talks

Melissa Bowerman
(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
William Croft
(Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, UK)
Asifa Majid
(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Kichun Nam
(Korea University and Brain Science Research Center, KAIST, Korea)
Heiko Narrog
(Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Japan)
Kwangoh Yi
(Department of Psychology, Yeungnam University, Korea)

研究発表 Presentations

招待講演のほかに２１世紀COEプログラムの研究発表があります。プログラムの詳細はこちらにあります。
There will also be presentation sessions by researchers related to this COE Program. The detail of the session program is here.

会費：無料、ただし資料・会場準備の都合で、 9 月 10 日（金）までに下記事務局までご連絡ください。
Admission Free. But please contact the Secretariat by September 10 (Friday).

懇親会を 12 日（日）のフォーラムを初日のプログラム終了後開催いたします。（一般 3000 円、学生 1000 円）参加希望の方は 9 月 7 日（火）までに下記事務局までご連絡ください。
Reception scheduled in the evening of September 12 (Sun), please contact the Secretariat by September 7 (Tuesday) if interested to attend Reception (3000yen for non-students, 1000 yen for students)

問い合わせ先 / Send inquiries to:
東北大学21世紀COEプログラム「言語認知総合科学戦略研究教育拠点」事務局
Secretariat, The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities
Tel: 022-217-7550, Fax: 022-217-7850, E-mail: office@lbc21.jp,
URL: http://www.lbc21.jp

The Fourth International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition: Cognition, Brain, and Typology: Toward a Synthesis (The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities)

Program

Day 1	Sunday, 12 September
	Location: 2nd Floor Hall, Multimedia Hall

9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-9:40	Opening remarks: Kaoru Horie

Session 1	Chair: Kyoko Suzuki
9:40-10:10	Satoru Yokoyama (Brain Mapping Laboratory): Comprehension of passive sentences in Japanese: An fMRI study
10:10-10:40	Hyeonjeong Jeong (Brain Mapping Laboratory) The role of linguistic typology in sentence comprehension by multilinguals: An fMRI study
10:40-11:10	Hideyuki Okamoto (Brain Mapping Laboratory) The brain activation of Japanese-English bilingual in sentence comprehension - An fMRI study

11:10-12:45	LUNCH Break

Session 2	Chair: Akinori Ito
12:45-13:15	Kazue Okada and Kyoko Suzuki (Neurolinguistics Laboratory) Influence of the emotions on story recall
13:15-13:45	Oh-Pyo Kweon, Motoyuki Suzuki, Akinori Ito and Shozo Makino (Speech and Language Engineering Laboratory) Analysis of pronunciation error and grammatical error of L2 learners for dialogue-based Japanese CALL system

13:45-14:00	Break

Session 3	Chair: Kei Yoshimoto
14:00-14:30	Kazuhiro Mogi (Computational Linguistics Laboratory) Defining the structure of discourse segments for interpretation of demonstratives
14:30-15:00	Lee Sangmok (Computational Linguistics Laboratory) Development of multimedia collocation information search system: the use of graphic/video information for foreign language learing

15:00-15:30	COFFEE break

Invited Presentation 1	Chair: Prashant Pardeshi
15:30-16:20	Asifa Majid (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) The human body in cognition, brain, and typology

16:20-16:30	Break

Invited Presentation 2	Chair: Shigeru Sato
16:30-17:20	Kichun Nam (Korea University and Brain Science Research Center, KAIST) Lexical and sublexical representation in visual word recognition

17:20-17:30	Break

Plenary Talk 1	Chair: Kaoru Horie
17:30-19:00	Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Event categorization in language and cognition: The case of "Cutting and Breaking"

19:00-21:00	Reception: 6th Floor Hall, Multimedia Building

Day 2	Monday, 13 September
	Location: 2nd Floor Hall, Multimedia Hall

9.30-9.40	Opening/Registration

Session 4	Chair: Daiko Takahashi
9:40-10:10	Naoki Kimura, Masatoshi Koizumi (Generative Linguistics Laboratory) Processing of aspectual adjuncts in Japanese
10:10-10:40	Akito Kurogi (Generative Linguistics Laboratory) The Japanese light verb construction and zero-derivation

10:40-10:45	Break

Session 5	Chair: Hajime Fukuchi
10:45-11:15	Kensuke Sugiura (Linguisti Typology Laboratory) Cognitive types of German poet Peter Huchel
11:15-11:45	Tsuyoshi Sugawara and Yoshiki Ogawa (Functional Linguistics Laboratory ) The ECM complement with empty HAVE for “Order” and “Give”
11:45-12:15	Hironori Suzuki (Functional Linguistics Laboratory) Word order determinants in Old English poetry: The case for alliteration

12:15-14:00	LUNCH Break

Session 6	Chair: Heiko Narrog
14:00-14:30	Prashant Pardeshi, Li Qingmei and Kaoru Horie (Cognitive Linguistics Laboratory) Toward resolution of the controversy over the function and usage of the passive?A cross-linguistic parallel corpora account
14:30-15:00	Kanako Mori (Cognitive Linguistics Laboratory) A cognitive linguistic analysis of Khmer imperative particles ph??? and coh

15:00-15:30	COFFEE Break

Invited Presentation 3	Chair: Bai Chen
15:30-16:20	Kwangoh Yi (Department of Psychology, Yeungnam University) Morphological representation and processing of Sino-Korean words

16:20-16:30	Break

Invited Presentation 4	Chair: Hiroaki Kitano
16:30-17:20	Heiko Narrog (COE Program, Tohoku University) Getting on the modality ladder: Event-oriented modal markers between voice and modality

17:20-17:30	Break

Plenary Talk 2	Chair: Toshio Ohori
17:30-19:00	William Croft (Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester) Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis and its implications for typology, cognition and the brain

19:00-19:15	Closing remarks: Shigeru Sato