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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003 8:00 - 9:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:45 - 9:00 WELCOME Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Syntax/Semantics Interface Chair: Chris Barker (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 9:00 - 9:30 "Nonrestrictive Relatives, and the Growth of Logical Form" Ruth Kempson (King's College, London) 9:30 - 10:00 "Anaphora and (Un)finished Objects" Eric McCready (U. Texas - Austin) 10:00 - 10:30 "The Locality Conditions of QR and the Phase Impenetrability Condition" Carlo Cecchetto (Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 12:15 Invited Speaker: TOM WASOW Why Are Natural Languages So Ambiguous? Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH (on your own) 2:00 - 3:30 Session 2a: Loanword and Non-Native Phonology Chair: Jessica Barlow (SDSU) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 2b: Sentence Processing in Head-Final Languages Chair: Soonja Choi (SDSU) Deutz Conference Room 2:00 - 2:30 "Epenthetic Vowel Harmony in Farsi" Shabnam Shademan (UCLA) "Subject/Object Asymmetries in the Processing of Relative Clauses in Japanese" Edson T. Miyamoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) and Michiko Nakamura (U. Hawaii) 2:30 - 3:00 "Gestural Motor Programs and the Nature of Phonotactic Restrictions: Evidence from Loanword Phonology" Adam Ussishkin (U. Arizona) and Andrew Wedel (UC Santa Cruz) "Processing Wh-in-Situ: An ERP Investigation" Mieko Ueno & Robert Kluender (UC San Diego) 3:00 - 3:30 "Epenthesis Versus Gestural Mistiming in Consonant Cluster Production: An Ultrasound Study" Lisa Davidson (Johns Hopkins) and Maureen Stone (U. Maryland) "Prosodic Disambiguation of Syntactic Clause Boundaries in Korean" Soyoung Kang & Shari Speer (Ohio State U.) 3:30 - 3:45 BREAK 3:45 - 4:45 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 3a: Morphological Paradigms I Chair: Farrell Ackerman (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium Session 3b: Focus and Scrambling Chair: Maria Polinsky (UCSD) Deutz Conference Room 3:45 - 4:15 "A Quantitative Study of Spanish Paradigm Gaps" Adam Albright (UC Santa Cruz) "Focus Movement and Elliptic Effects in Italian" Lisa Brunetti (Universita di Firenze) 4:15 - 4:45 "Morphological Families and Phonological Neighborhoods: who competes when? MEG evidence" Liina Pylkkanen (NYU) and Alec Marantz (MIT) "Scrambling in Persian Is Not Focus Driven" Shadi Ganjavi (U. Southern California) 4:45 - 5:00 BREAK 5:00 - 6:30 Session 4: Syntactic Locality Conditions Chair: TBD Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 5:00 - 5:30 "Effects of Shared Constituency on Superiority Effects" Maximiliano Guimaraes (U. Maryland - College Park) 5:30 - 6:00 "The Specificity Condition: LF-condition or PF-condition?" Masaya Yoshida (U. Maryland - College Park) 6:00 - 6:30 "Island (In)sensitivity in Japanese Sluicing and Stripping" Teruhiko Fukaya (U. of Southern California)

 
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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2003 ( final version ) 8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 5a: Learning Chair: Adam Albright (UCSC) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium Session 5b: Clause Structure and Thematic Relations Chair: John Moore (UCSD) Deutz Conference Room 9:00 - 9:30 "Surgery in Language Learning" Bruce Tesar, John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Koichi Nishitani, Alan Prince & Nazarre Merchant (Rutgers) "Introducing Arguments above the Agent: the Case of Zulu Locative Applicatives" Leston Buell (UCLA) 9:30 - 10:00 "Phonological Rule-Learning and Its Implications for a Theory of Vowel Harmony" Pawel Nowak, Anne Pycha, Eurie Shin & Ryan Shosta (UC Berkeley and U. Chicago) "IPP in Afrikaans dialects and Dutch: The effects of locality on morphology" Mark de Vos (U. Leiden)" 10:00 - 10:30 "Experimental Investigation of Phonological Naturalness: Consonant Harmony vs. Random Alternation" Colin Wilson (UCLA) "Backward Control in Korean" Philip J. Monahan (U. Florida) 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 12:15 Invited Speaker: MARY BECKMAN Input Representations (Inside The Mind & Out) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH (provided) 2:00 - 3:30 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 6: Lexical Semantics and Processing Chair: Robert Kluender (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 2:00 - 2:30 "Activities, States, and Changes of State" Gail McKoon & Talke MacFarland (Northwestern U.) 2:30 - 3:00 "Imperfective Paradox in Acquisition" Nina Kazanina & Colin Phillips (U. Maryland - College Park) 3:00 - 3:30 "Specificity as a Grammatical Notion: Evidence from L2-English Article Use" Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, and Ken Wexler (MIT) 3:30 - 3:45 BREAK 3:45 - 4:45 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 7a: Stress Chair: Amalia Arvaniti (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium Session 7b: Semantics Chair: Mark Gawron (SDSU) Deutz Conference Room 3:45 - 4:15 "The Puzzle of Onset-Sensitive Stress: a Perceptually-Driven Approach" Matthew Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) "Being able to" Christopher Pinon (Linguistics Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 4:15 - 4:45 "Morphological Effects on Default Stress Placement in Novel Russian Words: an experimental approach" Katherine Crosswhite (U Rochester), John Alderete (Rutgers), Tim Beasley (UCLA) and Vita Markman (Rutgers) "Quantifiers in Exceptive NPs" Ivan Garcia-Alvarez (Stanford) 4:45 - 5:00 BREAK 5:00 - 6:30 Session 8: Movement and Clause Structure Chair: Grant Goodall (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 5:00 - 5:30 "Some AGREEment Matters: A Cross-Linguistic Generalization on Reconstruction & Agreement" Pranav Anand & Andrew Nevins (MIT) 5:30 - 6:00 "An 'orphan' Analysis of Left-Peripheral Adjuncts in English" Benjamin Shaer (ZAS Berlin) 6:00 - 6:30 "Right Node Raising is Sometimes Movement before and Sometimes Movement after Spellout" Joseph A. Sabbagh (MIT) 6:30 - 7:00 BREAK Business Meeting Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 7:00 - 9:00 DINNER (provided)/ RECEPTION

 
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SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2003 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 9a: Online Processing of Gapped Constructions Chair: Andrew Kehler (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium Session 9b: Morphological Paradigms II Chair: Sharon Rose (UCSD) Deutz Conference Room 9:00 - 9:30 "Online Satisfaction of Lexical Requirements Determines the Time Course of Gap Creation" Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Amy Weinberg (U. Maryland - College Park) "Paradigm Uniformity: Evidence for Inflectional Bases" Anne Sturgeon (UC Santa Cruz) 9:30 - 10:00 "Reconstructing Missing Arguments in VP-ellipsis Constructions: A Psycholinguistic Investigation" Lewis P. Shapiro & Arild Hestvik (SDSU, CUNY and U. Bergen) "Paradigm Effects and the Affix-Shape/Position Generalization" Daniel Kaufman (Cornell U.) 10:00 - 10:15 BREAK 10:15 - 11:45 Invited Speaker: DOUG PULLEYBLANK When Is A Feature A Feature? Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium 11:45 - 12:00 BREAK 12:00 - 1:00 .:: SPECIAL SESSION ::. Session 10a: Empirical Reassessments of Syntactic Phenomena Chair: Robert Kluender (UCSD) Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium Session 10b: Issues in Optimality Theory Chair: Eric Bakovic (UCSD) Deutz Conference Room 12:00 - 12:30 "Using Magnitude Estimation to Test Crosslinguistic Hypotheses: Resumption as a Test Case" Frank Keller & Theodora Alexapoulou (U. Edinburgh) "Economy of Representation in OT" Maria Gouskova (U. Mass - Amherst) 12:30 - 1:00 "Null Subjects in Child Language: Evidence for a Performance Account" Justin Aronoff (U. Southern California) "The Case for Local Conjunction: Evidence from Fyem" Jill Beckman (University of Iowa)

 
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Alternates "Origins of Overlap in Place Assimilation" Larissa Chen (Yale) "Counter-Feeding Opacity as a Chain-Shift Effect" Ania Lubowicz (U. Minnesota)