HOWL3:
Hopkins Workshop on Language

Non-local dependencies
in phonology and syntax

14-15 January 2005

Department of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Schedule

All talks will be held in the Great Hall in Levering Hall on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. Levering Hall is the building numbered 4 on this map.

14 January – Phonology

8:30-9:15 Breakfast
9:15-9:30 Introduction and welcome to HOWL
9:30-10:10

Rachel Walker (USC)
(Non-)local dependencies among consonants: characteristics, representations, and connections with language production

10:10-10:20 Commentary: Luigi Burzio (JHU)
10:20-10:35 Discussion
10:35-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30 Colin Wilson (UCLA)
Localizing constraint violation
11:30-11:40 Commentary: Paul Smolensky (JHU)
11:40-11:55 Discussion
11:55-12:10 Coffee break
12:10-12:50 Gareth Gaskell (York)
Local and non-local dependencies in spoken word recognition
12:50-1:00 Commentary: Rebecca Piorkowski and Ehren Reilly (JHU)
1:00-1:15 Discussion
1:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:10 Elissa Newport (Rochester)
Statistical learning of adjacent and non-adjacent dependencies: Constraints on learning and on languages
3:10-3:20 Commentary: Colin Wilson (UCLA)
3:20-3:35 Discussion
3:35-4:45 Poster Session
4:45-5:25

Iris Berent (Florida Atlantic)
Co-occurrence restrictions on non-adjacent Hebrew consonants: Are they long-distance?

5:25-5:35 Commentary: Maria Gouskova (Georgetown)
5:35-5:50 Discussion
7:30- Party chez Legendre-Smolensky

15 January – Syntax

8:30-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:10 David Pesetsky (MIT)
Syntactic Movement and Bottom-to-Top Derivations
10:10-10:20 Commentary: Ivan Sag (Stanford)
10:20-10:35 Discussion
10:35-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30

Aravind Joshi (Pennsylvania)
Some Formal Aspects of Local and Non-Local Dependencies

11:30-11:40 Commentary: Amy Weinberg (Maryland)
11:40-11:55 Discussion
11:55-12:10 Coffee break
12:10-12:50 Helen Goodluck (York)
Long-distance dependencies: Grammar vs. processing effects
12:50-1:00 Commentary: Aravind Joshi (Pennsylvania)
1:00-1:15 Discussion
1:15-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:10 Edith Kaan (Florida)
Non-Local Dependencies: A Neurolinguistic Perspective
3:10-3:20 Commentary: David Pesetsky (MIT)
3:20-3:35 Discussion
3:35-3:50 Coffee Break
3:50-4:30 Ted Gibson (MIT)
Locality and sentence complexity
4:30-4:40 Commentary: William Badecker (JHU)
4:40-4:55 Discussion

 

 

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