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TCP 2012 Program

2012-01-23T16:58:00.005+09:00

We inform about the conference program of TCP 2012.

Please click here to view the abstracts.

We are looking forward to seeing you at this conference.

TCP 2012 Conference information

2012-01-22T13:16:00.000+09:00

-Invited Speakers:
Dr. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania )
Dr. Shoichi Takahashi (Hitotsubashi University)

-Date:
March 9 and 10, 2012

-Program&Abstracts

-Place:
Kita-kan hall, Keio University, Mita

-Call for Papers (Dead line: November 30, 2011)

-Registration fee (Pre-registration is not necessary.):
1,000yen (TCP 2012 Handbook)

-Reception (March 9):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

-Access Information:
Direction to Keio University

TCP 2012 Call for Papers

2011-07-14T16:19:00.007+09:00

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2012) on March 9 and 10, 2012.

The invited speakers are
Dr. Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania and
Dr. Shoichi Takahashi, Hitotsubashi University.
We encourage you to submit papers for oral presentation and poster presentation.
For details, visit our website: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

[Call for Papers]
The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo
March 9 and 10, 2012

THE TOKYO CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLINGUISTICS welcomes papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to “Plato’s Problem” concerning language acquisition: “How we can gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?” Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics.

We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. The time for an oral presentation will be 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion period (a total of 30 minutes). There is the possibility that some papers of outstanding quality will be given longer time slots (i.e., a 30 minute presentation with a 15 minute discussion period). Furthermore, the space allotted to a poster presentation will be 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length). The guidelines for the abstract submission are as follows.
Submissions that do not meet the guidelines will be rejected without review.

1. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.

2. You may submit at most one single (sole-authored) paper and two joint (co-authored) papers. Namely you may submit any of the following:
　　a. one sole-authored paper
　　b. one sole-authored paper and one co-authored paper
　　c. one sole-authored paper and two co-authored papers
　　d. one co-authored paper
　　e. two co-authored papers

3. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2011 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2012#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (#→@). This address will be effective from October 1 to November 30, 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

4. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract".

5. The body of the e-mail should include:
　　a. the author information (name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number; If your paper has multiple authors, provide information regarding all of the co-authors. And, if you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant.),
　　b. the type of presentation (Your choice will not be revealed to the reviewers, and thus will not influence the review process.),
　　　　A) Oral
　　　　B) Poster
　　　　C) Either Oral or Poster
　　c. the title of paper,
　　d. the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper,
　　e. the field(s) which your abstract involves (e.g, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, Language Processing, Neuroscience of Language, and so on), and
　　f. 3 keywords/phrases that best describe your paper.

6. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail.
Document files (e.g., MS Word format) cannot be accepted. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, do not hesitate to contact us. (The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook and be placed on the TCP website.)
Format the files of your abstracts as follows (including bibliography):
　　a. The maximum length is 2 pages.
　　b. A4 paper size
　　c. Single-spaced
　　d. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached.
　　e. Do not add page numbers.
　　f. The top margin of the first page must be more than 30mm.
　　g. The other margins must be more than 18mm.
　　h. Do not put your name on your abstract (The abstract reviews will be anonymous.).
　　i. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page.

7. Please note that you cannot revise your abstract once it has been submitted.
We w ill notify you of the results of our review process via e-mail by January 13, 2012 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2012. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January.

In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2012.

Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

For further information, contact:
Yukio Otsu (Director), Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TCP 2012 Staff

2011-07-10T18:04:00.001+09:00

Director: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Associate Director: Hitomi Murata (Keio University)

Committee: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University), Koji Sugisaki (Mie University), Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts), Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University), Tomoko Monou (Keio University), Atsushi Nagai (Keio University), Tomomi Yoshihara (Keio University), Mayumi Fujita (Keio University), Masako Kumagai (Keio University)

Staff: Daijiro Nishiura, Tomoya Iijima, Hiroko Kanamaru, Mana Kawata, Hikaru Kouzu, Osamu Tajima, Shiori Tanaka, Hazuki Yamashita, Fumie Hokari, Sayuri Kumano, Yuki Nakahara, Marisa Shinohara, Aya Takagi

Advisory Board: Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Harald Clahsen (University of Essex), Stephen Crain (Macquarie University), Kevin Gregg (St. Andrew's University), Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University), Hiroko Hagiwara (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Kazuko I. Harada (Kinjo Gakuin University), Masayuki Ike-uchi (Tsuda College), Noriko Imanishi-Terazu (University of Tokyo), Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University), Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jacques Mehler (International School for Advanced Study, Trieste, Italy and EHESS/CNRS, Paris France), Edson Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba), Heizo Nakajima (Gakushuin University), Yuji Nishiyama (Meikai University), Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena), Thomas Roeper (UMass/Amherst), Tsutomu Sakamoto (Kyushu University), Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University), Bonnie D. Schwartz (University of Hawaii), William Snyder (University of Connecticut), Koji Sugisaki (Mie University), Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo), Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)

TCP Proceedings 2011 & TCP 2012

2011-05-06T16:40:00.008+09:00

On the first day of TCP 2011 (March 11th), a devastating earthquake hit us. It happened around 3 p.m., just after the third presentation of the program. Considering the severity of the situation at that time, we had no choice but to cancel the rest of the program.

Although this circumstance was totally unexpected, the participants remained calm in the sudden disaster. We greatly appreciate their patience and understanding. We also appreciate the warm and supportive messages that people from all over the world have been sending us. All of the staff members are fine.

Following our original plan, we will publish the proceedings of TCP 2011 in November 2011. The proceedings will contain all of the papers that were presented or scheduled to be presented at TCP 2011, including the ones of the two guest speakers, namely, Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) and Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University).

Additionally, TCP 2012 will be held on March 9 and 10 at Keio University in Tokyo next year as scheduled. This is because many parts of Tokyo have been recovering from the disaster and judging by present circumstances, there should not be any impediments to holding of the conference. We will post the Call for Papers for TCP 2012 in our blog and poster in July.

We hope many people will participate in TCP 2012, and would like to ask all of you to consider submitting an abstract to the next TCP. We are looking forward to seeing you at the next conference.

TCP Organizers
Yukio Otsu Lab

We are all okay.

2011-03-12T08:32:00.001+09:00

To those who sent us e-mail messages,

We are all okay. The earthquake hit us when we were in the midst of the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and we were forced to escape from the conference hall for some time. Fortunately, none of us were injured. The staff members stayed overnight in a room next to the conference hall since public transportation was paralyzed, and we just got back to our office a few minutes ago.

We reluctantly decided to cancel the rest of the TCP program. We appreciate your understanding.

TCP organizers
Yukio Otsu Lab

TCP 2011 update: cancellation and other info

2011-03-11T16:48:00.010+09:00

March 12th, 02:00 am
Due to unexpected circumstances, we are forced to cancel the rest of TCP 2011. We are sorry for this unfortunate decision, but we appreciate your understanding and your continuing support for TCP.

Although we will make every effort to keep the program as below, it is subject to change due to unexpected emergencies, we appreciate your understanding.

The revised program for tomorrow.

10:00-10:30 “Grammatical Encoding in the Production of Passive Sentence: Evidence from Structural Priming Effects in Japanese”
Ying Deng (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

10:30-11:00 “Antecedent Selection of a Reflexive Pronoun in Bi-clausal Structure: An ERP Study in Japanese”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University), Yuki Kobayashi and Takane Ito (The University of Tokyo)

11:00-11:30 “Structural Expectations in Chinese Relative Clause Comprehension”
Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John Hale (Cornell University)

~~12:30-14:00~~ 11:30-12:30 Poster Session
“Universals and Uniqueness in Lexical Tone Perception”
Ao Chen and René Kager (Utrecht University)

“Re-examining the ‘NP/DP’ Parameter in Light of the Diversity of East-Asian Classifiers”
Youngmi Jeong (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

“Incremental Processing of Gap-filler Dependencies: Evidence from the Processing of Subject and Object Clefts in Japanese”
Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Atsushi Sato (Hiroshima University/Japan Society for Promotion of Science), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

“String Vacuous Phonetically Inaudible Scrambling in Japanese”
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)

12:30-13:00 “The Disambiguation Effect as a Manifestation of Socio-pragmatic Competence”
Marina Kalashnikova and Karen Mattock (Lancaster University)

13:00-13:30 “Two Types of Benefactives in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Experimental Study”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

13:30-14:00 “Children's Grammatical Conservatism: Evidence from the Acquisition of Case-markers and Postpositions in Japanese”
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:00-14:30 “Uniqueness and Co-variation in Chinese Wh-conditionals”
Qiong-peng Luo and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)

14:30-15:00 “On the Adjunction-based Licensing of the Accusative Wh-adjunct Nani-o”
Yasuhiro Iida (Osaka University)

15:00-15:30 “That-trace Reconsidered: Definiteness and Complementizer Agreement”
Koji Shimamura (Osaka University)

15:30-15:40 BREAK

15:40-16:40 Invited Lecture
“Parser-grammar Interactions in the Acquisition of Syntax”
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)

16:40-16:50 BREAK

~~15:45-16:45~~ 16:50- 17:50 Invited Lecture
“Can Eagles That Fly Swim? -Guaranteeing the Simplest Answer to a New Puzzle-“
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

TCP 2011 program

2011-01-25T13:12:00.005+09:00

Please click here to view the abstracts.

TCP Proceedings Submission Guidlines

2010-12-13T14:18:00.001+09:00

・Submission Guidlines
・Sample Microsoft Word file
・Sample PDF file

TCP 2011 - abstract submissions

2010-12-01T16:04:00.000+09:00

The deadline for abstract submissions has passed.
Thank you for submitting your abstract to TCP 2011.

Call for papers

2010-07-12T15:40:00.004+09:00

The 12th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo
March 11 and 12, 2011

THE TOKYO CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLINGUISTICS welcomes papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to “Plato’s Problem” concerning language acquisition: “How we can gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?” Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics.

We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. The time for an oral presentation will be 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion period (a total of 30 minutes). There is the possibility that some papers of outstanding quality will be given longer time slots (i.e., a 30 minute presentation with a 15 minute discussion period). Furthermore, the space allotted to a poster presentation will be 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length).

The guidelines for the abstract submission are as follows.

Submissions that do not meet the guidelines will be rejected without review.

1. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.

2. You may submit at most one single (sole-authored) paper and two joint (co-authored) papers.
Namely you may submit any of the following:
a. one sole-authored paper
b. one sole-authored paper and one co-authored paper
c. one sole-authored paper and two co-authored papers
d. one co-authored paper
e. two co-authored papers

3. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2010 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2011@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp. This address will be effective from October 1 to November 30, 2010. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

4. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract”.

5. The body of the e-mail should include:

a. the author information (name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number; If your paper has multiple authors, provide information regarding all of the co-authors. And,　if you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant.),

b. the type of presentation (Your choice will not be revealed to the reviewers, and thus will not influence the review process.),
A) Oral
B) Poster
C) Either Poster or Oral

c. the title of paper,

d. the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper,

e. the field(s) which your abstract involves (e.g, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, Language Processing, Neuroscience of Language, and so on), and

f. 3 keywords/phrases that best describe your paper.

6. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. Document files (e.g., MS Word format) cannot be accepted. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, do not hesitate to contact us. (The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook and be placed on the TCP website.)
Format the files of your abstracts as follows (including bibliography):
a. The maximum length is 2 pages.
b. A4 paper size
c. Single-spaced
d. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached.
e. Do not add page numbers.
f. The top margin of the first page must be more than 30mm.
g. The other margins must be more than 18mm.
h. Do not put your name on your abstract (The abstract reviews will be 　　　anonymous.).
i. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page.

7. Please note that you cannot revise your abstract once it has been submitted.

We will notify you of the results of our review process via e-mail by January 12, 2011 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2011. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January.

In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2011.

Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

For further information, contact:
Yukio Otsu (Director), Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University,
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TCP 2011 Conference information

2010-07-12T15:37:00.013+09:00

- Invited Speakers:
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)

- Date: March 11 and 12, 2011

-Program&Abstracts

- Place: Kita-kan hall, Keio University, Mita

- Call for Papers (Dead line: November 30, 2010)

-Registration fee: 1,000yen (Pre-registration is not necessary. )

- Reception (March 11):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

- Access Information:Direction to Keio University

The Proceedings of the 11th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2010-07-11T10:00:00.008+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
ISBN978-4-89476-552-8C3081
Y9800E
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents
Revisiting Modularity
Susan Curtiss 1

The Syntactic OCP
Ken Hiraiwa 35

SLI Children's Weakness in Morphosyntax and Pragmatics
Fabrizio Arosio, Chiara Branchini, Matteo Forgiarini and Maria Teresa Guasti 57

Developmental Dyslexia: ERP Correlates of Anomalous Morphosyntactic Processing
Chiara Cantiani, Maria Luisa Lorusso, Paolo Perego, Massimo Molteni and Maria Teresa Guasti 79

On the Typology of Wh-conditionals in Chinese
Stephen Crain and Autuman Q.-P. Luo 97

The Acquisition of Morpho-phonological Alternations: A Case Study with German-speaking Children
Anne Gwinner 121

Feature Transfer in L2 Acquisition: With Special Reference to Reflexive Binding
Nao Ishino and Hiroyuki Ura 141

The BEI Construction, Movement Chains and the Copy Theory
Pei-Jung Kuo 161

A Comparative Study of the Acquisition of Plural Morphemes in Japanese and Korean
Nao Nakano, Hye Sun Park and Cristina Schmitt 181

Contextually Restricted Scales of I-adjectives in Japanese
Toshiko Oda 201

English/Turkish Interlanguage Prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access
Öner Özçelik 221

Discourse Topic in Japanese: A Syntax-semantics Interface
Yasuhiro Sasahira 237

Fragments in Child English and Spanish
Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder 253

Are Chinese Children's Passives Delayed?
Ting Xu 269

TCP 2010 Held

2010-03-14T07:29:00.020+09:00

TCP 2010 was held on March 12 and 13.

This year we invited Dr. Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University) and Dr. Susan Curtiss (University of California, Los Angeles). Dr. Hiraiwa talked on the significance of the Double-"O" Constraint within a framework of the minimalist program. Dr. Curtiss discussed the modularity of cognitive mechanism.

We also had some oral and poster presentations including topics such as linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language.

The invited talks and each presentation inspired lively discussions with the participants. And even after the conference was over we saw the participants continuing their discussions everywhere.

The reception held on Day 1 had no formal speeches, so it seemed that everyone enjoyed having informal conversations with other participants and attendees. This is one of the special characteristics of TCP. Another characteristic this year was that we received more abstracts and had more participants from both inside and outside of Japan. That is surely because TCP has been continuing for ten years and its name has become widely known throughout the world.

We look forward to your continuous assistance and meeting you at TCP 2011 on March 11 and 12, 2011.

TCP 2010 Program

2010-02-02T15:12:00.006+09:00

To view the abstract, click on a title.

Day 1 (March 12, 2010)
10:30-10:35
Opening Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:35-11:05
"Fragments in Child English and Spanish"
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) and William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

11:05-11:35
"SVO Universally? Experimental Evidence for Underlying Word Order and Its Consequences for Language Acquisition"
Alan Langus (SISSA) and Marina Nespor (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Chair: Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

Lunch

13:00-13:30
"Linguistic Co-Evolution and the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument"
Luke McCrohon (University of Tokyo)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

13:30-14:00
"Neural Correlates of the Phonological Complexity Scale in Korean Diphthongs"
Haeil Park (Yonsei University) and Sang-Cheol Ahn (Kyung Hee University)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:00:14:30
"SLI Children’s Weakness in Morphosyntax and Pragmatics"
Maria Teresa Guasti, Fabrizio Arosio, Chiara Branchini and Matteo Forgiarini (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

Break

14:50-15:20
"Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese"
Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University/University of Connecticut)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

15:20-15:50
"On the Typology of Wh-Conditionals in Chinese"
Stephen Crain and Qiong-peng Luo (Macquarie University)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

15:50-16:20
"The BEI Construction, Movement Chains and the Copy Theory"
Pei-Jung Kuo (National Chiayi University)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

Break

16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture)
"Spelling Out the Double-O Constraint"
Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University)
Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

RECEPTION

Day 2 (March 13, 2010)
10:00-10:30
"Reflexives in Inter-Language Grammar and Acquisition through Feature Transfer"
Nao Ishino and Hiroyuki Ura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

10:30-11:00
"English/Turkish Interlanguage Prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access"
Öner Özçelik (McGill University)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

11:00-11:30
"The Acquisition of Phonemic Liquids in L2 English by Self-Correcting Japanese Speakers"
Moti Lieberman (McGill University)
Chair: Yukiko Sugiyama (Keio University)

Lunch

12:30-14:00 Poster Session
"Developmental Dyslexia: ERP Correlates of Anomalous Morphosyntactic Processing"
Chiara Cantiani ( University of Milano-Bicocca/Scientific Institute “E.Medea”), Maria Luisa Lorusso, Paolo Perego (Scientific Institute “E.Medea”) and Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)

"Dichotic Perception of Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages in Native Speakers of Mandarin and English"
Fang-Chia Hsu, Sandra P. Whiteside and Patricia E. Cowell (University of Sheffield)

"Processing Constraints on PF Movement"
Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro and Michelle Liou (National Taiwan Normal University)

"The Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Topic in Japanese"
Yasuhiro Sasahira (Osaka University of Tourism)

"The Acquisition of the Go-Verb Construction in English"
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:00-14:30
"A Comparative Study of the Acquisition of Plural Morphemes in Japanese and Korean"
Nao Nakano, Hye Sun Park and Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

14:30-15:00
"The Acquisition of Morpho-Phonological Alternations: A Case Study with German-Speaking Children"
Anne Gwinner (Universität Konstanz)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

15:00-15:30
"Are Chinese Children’s Passives Delayed?"
Ting Xu (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

Break

15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture)
"Modularity Revisited"
Susan Curtiss (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

The Proceedings of the Tenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2009-12-11T13:09:00.009+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）

9800 yen + tax

ISBN978-4-89476-483-5

C3081 Y9800E

Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents

Measure Phrases in PP

Akira Watanabe

Organisation of ‘Number’ Information in the Lexicon: Insights from Aphasic Plural Errors

Britta Biedermann, Lyndsey Nickels and Elisabeth Beyersmann

The Problem of Quantifiers in Object Position: New Experimental Evidence against the Extra Computation They Are Supposed to Trigger

Isabelle Charnavel

The Online Processing of French Reflexives: Experimental Evidence for an Unaccusative Analysis

Isabelle Charnavel, Flavia Adani and Nina Hyams

The Role of Indirect Negative Evidence and Paradigm Uniformity in L1 Acquisition of Two Types of Japanese Adjectives

Haruka Fukazawa and Miho Fujiwara

Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers

Aijun Huang and Thomas Hun-tak Lee

Children’s Late Acquisition of Dutch Raising-Verbs

Loes Koring and Ken Wexler

The Nominative/Accusative Alternation in the Transitive Adjective Construction in Modern Japanese: An ANOVA Analysis

Hideki Maki, Kana Ito, Megumi Hasebe, Kenichi Goto, Michiyo Hamasaki, Takashi Munakata and Yukiko Ueda

The Sloppy-Identity Interpretation in Child Japanese: Its Acquisition and Implications

Koichi Otaki and Noriaki Yusa

Expectation Driven by Case-markers: Its Effect on Japanese Relative Clause Processing

Atsushi Sato, Barış Kahraman, Hajime Ono and Hiromu Sakai

Processing of Lexical Prosody in L2 Word Recognition: Evidence from Japanese L2 Learners of English

Jeonghwa Shin and Shari R. Speer

Disjunction and Universal Quantification in Child Mandarin

Yi (Esther) Su and Stephen Crain

Argument Ellipsis in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Report

Koji Sugisaki

The Acquisition of Japanese Passives and the Role of Felicity

Masahiko Takahashi and Misako Hatayama

Right Dislocation/Scrambling (A)Symmetries on Wh-scope and Syntax-Prosody Interface of Wh-Questions in Tokyo Japanese

Hideaki Yamashita

Nominative Case Marking and Verbal Inflection in Japanese EFL Learners’ Composition

Noriko Yoshimura and Mineharu Nakayama

TCP 2010 - abstract submissions

2009-12-01T13:28:00.008+09:00

The deadline for abstract submissions has passed.
Thank you for submitting your abstract to TCP 2010.

Our web site will be suspended.

2009-11-26T19:02:00.001+09:00

From the morning on December 12 (Sat) to the morning on December 14 (Mon), our web site will be unavailable due to scheduled power cut.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Call for Papers

2009-07-29T11:59:00.010+09:00

Call for Papers

The 11th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo
March 12 & 13, 2010

The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to “Plato’s Problem” concerning language acquisition: “How we can gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?” Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics.

We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. The time for an oral presentation will be 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion period (a total of 30 minutes). There is the possibility that some papers of outstanding quality will be given longer time slots (i.e., a 30 minute presentation with a 15 minute discussion period). Furthermore, the space allotted to a poster presentation will be 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length).

The guidelines for the abstract submission are as follows:

1. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.

2. You may submit at most one single (sole-authored) paper and two joint (co-authored) papers.
Namely you may submit any of the following:
(a) one sole-authored paper
(b) one sole-authored paper and one co-authored paper
(c) one sole-authored paper and two co-authored papers
(d) one co-authored paper
(e) two co-authored papers

3. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2009 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2010@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp. This address will be effective from October 1 to November 30, 2009. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

4. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract”.

5. The body of the e-mail should include:

a. the author information (name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number; If your paper has multiple authors, provide information regarding all of the co-authors. And,　if you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant.),

b. the type of presentation (Your choice will not be revealed to the reviewers, and thus will not influence the review process.),
A) Oral
B) Poster
C) Either Poster or Oral

c. the title of paper,

d. the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper,

e. the field(s) which your abstract involves (e.g, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, Language Processing, Neuroscience of Language, and so on), and

f. 3 keywords/phrases that best describe your paper.

6. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. Document files (e.g., MS Word format) cannot be accepted. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, do not hesitate to contact us.

7. Format the files of your abstracts (including bibliography) to A4 paper size, single-spaced, limiting the length to a maximum of 2 pages. Since the abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook, make sure your margins have ample room. This abstract will also be placed on the TCP website.

8. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached.

9. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page.

10. Do not put your name on your abstract (The abstract reviews will be anonymous.).

11. You cannot revise your abstract once it has been submitted.

We will notify you of the results of our review process via e-mail by January 12, 2010 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2010. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January.

In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2010.

Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

For further information, contact:
Yukio Otsu (Director), Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University,
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TCP 2010 Conference information

2009-07-29T11:51:00.015+09:00

The 11th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics [TCP 2010]

- Invited Speakers:
Susan Curtiss (UCLA)
Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University)

- Date: March 12-13, 2010

-Program

- Place: Keio University Mita Campus Kita-kan hall

- Call for Papers (Dead line: November 30, 2009)

- Registration Fee (TCP 2010 Handbook): 1,000yen

Pre-registration is not necessary.

- Reception (March 12):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

- Access Information:Direction to Keio University

TCP 2009 held

2009-03-14T18:58:00.006+09:00

TCP 2009 was held on March 13 and 14.
Thanks to the help of the invited speakers, participants, and other concerned parties, the conference was a great success.
We hope to see you at a future TCP conference.
TCP 2010 will be held on March 12 and 13, 2010.

TCP2009 Program

2009-01-21T13:14:00.022+09:00

To view the abstract, click on a title.

Day 1 (March 13, 2009)
10:30-10:35
Opening Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:35-11:05
“Acquiring the Syntax and Semantics of Dutch Raising-Verbs”
Loes Koring (Utrecht University)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

11:05-11:35
“Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers”
Aijun Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong/Macquarie University) and Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

---LUNCH---

13:00-13:30
“Expectation Driven by Case-Markers: Its Effect in Japanese Relative Clause Processing”
Atsushi Sato, Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kansai Gaidai University)
and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University)

13:30-14:00
“The Problem of Quantifiers in Object Position: A New Experimental Evidence Against the Extra Computation that They Are Supposed to Trigger”
Isabelle Charnavel (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University)

14:00-14:30
“Organisation of ‘Number’ Information in the Lexicon: Insights from Aphasic Plural Errors”
Britta Biedermann, Lyndsey Nickels and Anna Elisabeth Beyersmann (Macquarie University)
Chair: Takuya Goro (Ibaraki University)

---BREAK---

14:50-15:20
“The Online Processing of French Reflexives: Cross Modal Lexical Priming Experimental Evidence for Their Unaccusativity”
Isabelle Charnavel(University of California, Los Angeles), Flavia Adani (Università Milano-Bicocca) and Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University)

15:20-15:50
“Syntax-Prosody Interface of Wh-Q Dependency in Tokyo Japanese: Right-Dislocation/Scrambling (A)Symmetries”
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)
Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University)

15:50-16:20
“The Nominative/Accusative Alternation in the Transitive Adjective Construction in Modern Japanese: An ANOVA Analysis”
Hideki Maki(Gifu University), Kana Ito (UBUKATA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.), Megumi Hasebe, Kenichi Goto (Gifu University), Michiyo Hamasaki (Aichi University of Education), Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University) and Yukiko Ueda (Akita University)
Chair: Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University)

---BREAK---

16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture)
“Measure Phrases in PP”
Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)
Chair: Masashi Nomura (Chukyo University)

---RECEPTION---

Day 2 (March 14, 2009)
10:00-10:30
“Nominative Case Marking and Verbal Inflection in L2 Grammar: Evidence from Japanese College Students' Compositions”
Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) and Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University)
Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

10:30-11:00
“Processing of Lexical Prosody in L2 Word Recognition: Evidence from Japanese L2ers of English”
Jeonghwa Shin and Shari R. Speer (The Ohio State University)
Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

11:00-11:30
“The Role of Indirect Negative Evidence and Paradigm Uniformity in L1 Acquisition of the Two Types of Japanese Adjectives”
Haruka Fukazawa (Keio University) and Miho Fujiwara (Willamette University)
Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

---LUNCH---

12:30-14:00 Poster Session
“Referential Context Effects in L2 Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading”
Hui-Yu Pan and Claudia Felser (University of Essex)

“Argument Ellipsis in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Report”
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

“Acquisition of Japanese Passives Revisited: Children Understand Long Passives”
Masahiko Takahashi (University of Connecticut) and Misako Hatayama (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University/Japan Science and Technology Agency)

14:00-14:30
“The Sloppy Identity Interpretation in Child Japanese: Its Acquisition and Implications”
Koichi Otaki (University of Connecticut) and Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University/Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

14:30-15:00
“The Acquisition of Participle Agreement in Early Romance”
Vincent Torrens (U.N.E.D.) and Anna Gavarro (U.A.B.)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

15:00-15:30
“Children’s Knowledge of an Asymmetric Universal in Mandarin Chinese”
Yi (Esther) Su and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

---BREAK---

15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture)
“Eventivity Effects in Early Grammar: The Case of Non-Finite Verbs"
Nina Hyams (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

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2008-12-11T18:34:00.004+09:00

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TCP 2009 - abstract submissions

2008-12-03T20:33:00.001+09:00

The deadline for abstract submissions has passed. Thank you for submitting your abstract to TCP 2009.

The Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2008-12-03T20:31:00.010+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
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---Contents ---

Did We Really Solve Plato's Problem (Abstractly)
Cedric Boeckx
The Acquisition of Preposition Stranding and its Theoretical Implications
Koji Sugisaki
Processing of Gapless Dependency without Thematic Cues: A Study on Negative Adverbs in Japanese
Rosalynn S. Chiu, Hajime Ono and Hiromu Sakai
The Development of the Vowel System in 5 Year-Old Simultaneous French/Japanese Bilingual Children
Mami Fukushi, Marie Labelle and Lucie Ménard
Across-the-Board and Parasitic Gap Constructions: Cross-Linguistic Generalization
Masayuki Komachi
A Probe-Goal Approach to Parametric Variation in English, French and Mandarin Nominal Phrases
Yi-An Lin
Strength and Weakness of Children’s Interpretation of Modals
Vincenzo Moscati
Two Ways of Pronouncing "Unpronounceable" QR
Hiroki Narita
Rare: Two Types of Root Modals in Japanese
Kaori Takamine
Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Second Language Learners of English
Aya Takeda
String-Vacuous Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization
Kensuke Takita
Clitin Omission in Early Italian: Testing the "Informativeness Hypothesis"
Roberta Tedeschi
The Early Stages of Universal Quantification
Anna Notley, Britta Jensen and Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Detailed Phonetic Memory for Multi-Word Sequences
Travis Wade
Children’s Acquisition of Passives in Chinese
Ting Xu and Xiaolu Yang
Scope Assignment in Chinese: Why Children and Adults Differ
Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain
TCP 2008 Program

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TCP 2009 Conference Information

2008-11-03T18:17:00.009+09:00

The 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics [TCP 2009]

- Invited Speakers:
Nina Hyams (UCLA)
Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)

- Program NEW!!

- Date: March 13-14, 2009

- Place: Keio University Mita Campus Kita-kan hall

- Registration Fee (TCP 2009 Handbook): 1,000yen
Pre-registration is not necessary.

- Reception (March 13):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

- Access Information:
Direction to Keio University

The Proceedings of the Eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2007-07-16T13:27:00.004+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
ISBN978-4-89476-376-0C3081
Y9800E
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Contents
The Maximization of Falsifiability: How to Acquire the Logic of Implicatures from the Illogic of Experience
Tom Roeper
A Multi-Model Modal Theory of I-Semantics Part 2: Identity and Attitudes
Christopher Tancredi
Experimental Cross-Linguistic Constructions Reveal Universal Principles in Language Acquisition
Lamya Al-Abdulkarim
How DIFFERENT can (it) be for English and Japanese Children?
Nigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo, Gary Wood and Ruth Churchill
What Happens If a Complex NP Universal Accommodates Hotondo-Modification?
Yukio Furukawa
Scope Resolution in Child Language: A Test for the QAR
Andrea Gualmini
An Economy-Based Analysis of Optional Movement in German
Jiro Inaba
Acquisition of Telicity by Japanese Learners of English
Keiko Kaku and Nina Kazanina
Non-Syntactic Factors in Processing the ‘Not-Because’ Ambiguity in English
Yukiko Koizumi and Dianne Bradley
Project Both in Japanese, with a Case Study of Head-internal Relative Clauses
Hiroki Narita
On the Syntax of Two Types of Transitive V-te ar- Constructions in Japanese
Masashi Nomura
Bilingualism and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Scalar Implicatures
Michael Siegal, Ayumi Matsuo and Clair Pond
On the Existence of Subject Scrambling: An fNIRS Study
Koji Sugisaki, Yukika Nishimura, Noriko Hattori, Yasushi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Mariko Ogawa, Yuji Okazaki, Waro Taki, Shinichi Unoh, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Etsuko Yoshida and Seiki Ayano
Does Stress Constrain L2 English Word Recognition?
Annie Tremblay

Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2006-07-16T13:23:00.004+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
Publication date: November 2006
ISBN4-89476-264-1 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
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Contents
Factors in the Incremental Processing of NPs in Japanese
Edson T. Miyamoto 1
Probes, Goals and Syntactic Categories
David Pesetsky and Ether Torrego 25
Modularized implicit rules and specific linguistic categories, Japanese Unyo Test
Teodor Ajder 61
Prosodic Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication
Ho Leung Chan 87
Topics in Child Japanese
Noriko Hattori, Seiki Ayano, Dylan Herrick, David Stringer and Koji Sugisaki 103
Sloppy Readings of a 'Referential' Pronoun in Japanese
Misato Hiraga and Jon Nissenbaum 121
You Can't Unscramble an Egg
Takaomi Kato 145
Emergence of Bipolar Items in Romance
Masakazu Kuno 171
Preferred Word Order in Japanese Correlates with Nonlexical -Perhaps "Supra-lexical"- Meaning: Evidence from Psycholinguistic Experiments
Keiko Nakamoto, Kow Kuroda, and Jae-ho Lee 197
Comparative Cinditionals in Japanese
Toshiko Oda 223
Coming and Going, Toing and Fronting: VP/PP Parallels in L1 Acquisition
David Stringer 247
Animacy and syntactic structure in sentence formulation
Mikihiro Tanaka 273
The Development of the Verb Category and Verb Argument Structures in Mandarin-speaking Children before Two Years of Age
Ling XIAO, Xin CAI, and Thomas Hun-tak LEE 299

Proceedings of the Sixth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2005-07-16T13:19:00.003+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
Publication date: November 2005
ISBN4-89476-264-1 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
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Contents
Syntactic Structure of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese: Behavioral and Imaging Studies
Masatoshi Koizumi 1
Bilingual Lexical Processing: Contrastive Polysemies
Somsukla Banerjee, Achla M. Raina, and Harish Karnick 27
Double-gapped Relative Clauses in Chinese: Grammar and Processing
Shane Xuexin Cao, Helen Goodluck, and Shan Xingyuan 53
Children's Knowledge of Principle C in Discourse
Anastasia Conroy and Rasalind Thornton 69
Minimalist Parsing and Japanese: On Theory and Experimental Factors
Sandiway Fong and Yuki Hirose 95
Examining perceptual distance in phonological vowel reduction
Dylan Herrick 117
Syntax-prosody (mis-)matching in sentence production
Yuki Hirose 139
The Interpretation of Focus in Chinese: Child vs. Adult Language
Chunyuan Jing, Stephen Crain, and Ching-Fen Hsu 165
N'-Ellipsis Reconsidered
Makoto Kadowaki 191
L2 poverty of the stimulus at the syntax-semantics interface: Quantifier scope in non-native Japanese
Heather Marsden 217
Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-cleft
Chizuru Nakao and Masaya Yoshida 243
Remarks on the Scope of Nominative Objects in Japanese
Masashi Nomura 269
Exclamatives as Comperatives: Evidence from English and Japanese
Toshiko Oda 293
Children's Structuring of Motion Events: Syntactic Universals and Lexical Variation
David Stringer 319
"One" Issue in Acquisition
Koji Sugisaki 345

Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2004-07-16T13:16:00.002+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編） Publication date: November 2004
ISBN4-89476-227-7 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
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Contents
Introducing Exxtension
Ken Safir 1
Plato's Problem in Reverse: Apparent Lack of Acquisition despite Presence of Evidence
Lydia White 33
A Floating Analysis of Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Korean and Japanese
Duk-Ho An 63
Multiple Zibun
Tomohiro Fujii 87
The Specificity Condition is an Instance of Crossover
Yukio Furukawa 111
Japanese Disjunction and the Acquisition of Positive Polarity
Takuya Goro and Sachie Akiba 137
The Syntax of Ditransitives in Japanese: A Preliminary Report from Acquisition
Miwa Isobe, Natsuko Katsura, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa, Yumi Sakai, Koji Sugisaki, and Noriaki Yusa 163
Trigger for Acquisition of Scrambling
Bosook Kang 183
MEG Responses in the Comprehension of Japanese Sentences
Hirohisa Kiguchi and Edson T. Miyamoto 207
Structural Similarity as a Determinant for "Misanalysis" in SLA: How Japanese Learners Analyse the Left-Periphery of English Sentences
Chieko Kuribara 229
Children's Non-Local Interpretation of Quantification
Utako Minai, Luisa Meroni, and Stephen Crain 255
Reflexives and Split Intransitivity
Tomokazu Takehisa 277
Conceptual Access from the L2 in Less-Fluent and Fluent Bilinguals
Jeffrey Witzel and Naoko Ouchi Witzel 303

Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2003-07-16T13:12:00.003+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編） Publication date: November 2003
ISBN4-89476-209-9 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents
"Verbal Adjectives" as Adjectives without Phi-features

Mark C. Baker 1
How parameters are set early and the order of setting

Maria Teresa Guasti 23
Specifics of Specifiers: A case study of Negation Phrases in Korean

Duk-Ho An 59
Difference at the Boundaries: Locating Linguistic Relativity

Yarrow Dunham, Peggy Li, and Susan Carey 87
Licit and Illicit Long Subject-to-Subject Raising

Tomohiro Fujii 109
Children's Asymmetrical Responses

Andrea Gualmini, Luisa Meroni, and Stephen Crain 135
How Children Avoid Kindergarten Paths

Luisa Meroni and Stephen Crain 159
The Acquisition of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese

Motoki Nakajima 185
Eliminating Late-merge: Reexamination of Anti-reconstruction Effects

Kayono Shiobara 197
Do Parameters Have Default Values? Evidence from the Acqisition of Engish and Spanish

Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder 215
Small Children's Big Clauses

Graciela Tesan and Rosalind Thornton 239
Direct Object Scrambling in Adult and Child L2 Dutch

Sharon Unsworth 265
It's Still Dark Here, Flick Another Switch On: Adult L2 Interlangugage Grammars in the Middle of Parameter Resetting

Maki Yamane 291
On the Distribution and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Japanese and the Phase-Impenetrability Condition

Hideaki Yamashita 313

Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2002-07-16T13:08:00.003+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu
Publication date: November 2002

ISBN 4-89476-173-4 (Paperback) 3,800 yen+tax

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Contents

Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese

Angelika Kratzer and Junko Shimoyama 1-25.
Parameters: The View from Child Language

William Snyder 27-44.
Relevance Theory: A Tutorial Deirdre

Wilson and Dan Sperber 45-70.
Children's Command of Negation

Stephen Crain, Amanda Gardner, Andrea Gualmini and Beth Rabbin 71-95.
Acquisition of Phonological Sublexica in Japanese: An OT Account

Haruka Fukazawa, Mafuyu Kitahara and Mitsuhiko Ota 97-114.
On Null Subjects in Child Russian

Galina Gordishevsky and Jeannette Schaeffer 115-137.
Facets of Case: On the Nature of the Double-o Constraint

Ken Hiraiwa 139-163.
Syntax-Phonology Interface of Wh-Constructions in Japanese

Shinichiro Ishihara 165-189.
Early Acquisition of Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese

Miwa Isobe 191-210.
Children's Knowledge of the Interaction between Binding Principles and QR

Hirohisa Kiguchi and Rosalind Thornton 211-234.
How Large Can Small Clauses Be?

Masakazu Kuno 235-259.
L2 Acquisition of Causatives by Spanish, Chinese and Japanese Speakers

Keiko Matsunaga 261-282.
Experimental Studies on Children's Undergeneration of NO with PPs

Motoki Nakajima 283-304.
Exclamatory Sentences in Japanese: A Preliminary Study

Hajime Ono 305-326.
Parameter Setting in the Acquisition of Japanese

Koji Sugisaki 327-349.
Information Structure and Innate Knowledge of Linguistic Principles

Cecile van der Weert 351-368.

Proceedings of the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2001-07-16T13:03:00.002+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu
Publication date: December 2001
ISBN 4-89476-149-1 (Paperback)
3,600 yen+tax
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents

Three Years of Continuous Acquisition
Luisa Meroni, Andrea Gualmini and Stephen Crain 1-33.
Movement and q-Roles: A Case Study with Resultatives
Mamoru Saito 35-60.
Children's Interpretation of Universal Quantifier and Pragmatic Interference
Takuya Gouro, Hanae Norita, Motoki Nakajima, and Ken-ichi Ariji 61-78.
Wealth of the Stimulus> L2 Acquisition of French Object Clitics
Julia Herschensohn 79-96.
Coordination without Coordinator
Hironobu Kasai and Shoichi Takahashi 97-117.
Why does movement sometimes leave a trace and sometimes not?
Masakazu Kuno 119-144.
The Acquisition of Quantificational Expressions of English-speaking Children and Japanese-speaking Children
Shigeko Matsufuji 145-162.
The lack of Root Infinitives in Child Hebrew and Deictic Anchoring
Jeannette Schaeffer and Dorit Ben-Shalom 163-186.
Some Asymmetries in Child Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications
Koji Sugisaki and Miwa Isobe 187-208.
Preposition Stranding and Double Objects in the Acquisition of English
Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder 209-225.
A-Movement in Early English
Rosalind Thornton 227-250.
Native Elements of Discourse Knowledge
Cecile van der Weert 251-274.
Grammaticality Judgment Patterns of English Left Branch Violations of Japanese Adult L2 Learners
Maki Yamane 275-283.

Proceedings of the First Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

2000-07-16T12:55:00.004+09:00

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄編）
Publication date: December 2000
ISBN 4-89476-131-9 (Paperback) 3,800 yen+tax
Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company
Amason.co.jp

Contents
Issues on Unaccusatives and Passives in the Acquisition of Japanese
Tetsuya Sano 1-22
Grammatical Null Objects in Child Spanish
Hanako Fujino 23-34
To Be Simple or Not to Be: Constrants in Optimality Theory
Haruka Fukazawa and Linda Lombardi 35-54
The Role of Constituent Length in Resolving Reanalysis Ambiguity
Yuki Hirose 55-74
Acquisition of Resultatives in Japanese and the Theory of Compounding Parameter
Miwa Isobe and Koji Sugisaki 75-92
Diachronic Accounts for the Idiosyncrasies of English Imperatives: Language Acquisition of Eighteenth Century
Takaomi Kato 93-112
Phrasal Compounds in English and Japanese: A Dynamic View
Chiaki F. Komatsu 113-132
-(S)ase- or Not: Input-Driven Acquisition of Causative Forms in Japanese
Hiromi Morikawa 133-152
Preposition Stranding and Prepositional Complementizers in the Acquisition of English
Koji Sugisaki, William Snyder and Daniel Yaffee 154-170
From One-way to Reciprocal Verbal Communication: The Early Stage of Pre-linguistic Development
Taeko Teramoto, Hideo Hayashibe, and Satoko Ichikawa 171-180
Japanese and Korean Children's L2 Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation
Melinda Whong-Barr and Bonnie D. Schwartz 181-200

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