TCP 2010 Conference information

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

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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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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---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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- Celestine Hotel
7 minutes from Tamachi Station (JR Yamanote Line)
access: map
3-23-1 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-5441-4111
Facsimile: 03-5411-4114


- Toyoko Inn Shinagawa
2 minutes from Shinagawa Station (JR Yamanote Line)
access: map

Single: 6,800- (per person)
Twin: 8,800- (per person)

4-23-2 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-3280-1045
Facsimile: 03-3280-1046


- Toyoko Prince Hotel
2 minutes from Onarimon Station (Subway Mita Line)
Airport shuttle bus (called "Friendly Limousine Bus") available from/to Narita Airport

Single: 19,000-(per person; including breakfast, high-speed internet circuit rent, service charge)
Twin: 12,000-(per person; including breakfast, high-speed internet circuit rent, service charge )

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Phone: 03-3432-1111
Facsimile: 03-3434-5551


- Shinagawa Prince Hotel
2 minutes from Shinagawa Station (JR Lines)
Airport shuttle bus (called "Friendly Limousine Bus") available from/to Narita Airport

Single: 9,800- (room rate; including service charge)
Twin: 14,300- (room rate; including service charge)

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Phone: 03-3440-1111
Facsimile: 03-5421-7888 (for hotel reservation use only)


- Takanawa Tobu Hotel
5 minutes from Shinagawa Station (JR Lines)

Single: 10,500- (room rate; including breakfast, service charge, tax)
Twin: 15,750- (room rate; including breakfast, service charge, tax)

4-7-6 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-3447-0111
Facsimile: 03-3447-0117
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2 minutes from Shibakoen Station (Subway Mita Line)
4 minutes from Daimon Station (Subway Asakusa Line)
8 minutes from Hamamatsucho Station (JR Lines)

Single: 7,200-7,600 (room rate)
Twin: 13,100- 21,200 (room rate)

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Phone: 03-3433-7211
Facsimile: 03-3433-3895
E-mail: tokyo-miel@mtj.biglobe.ne.jp
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- Tokyo Grand Hotel
20 minutes walk from Keio University
3 minutes from Shibakoen Station (Subway Mita Line)
Airport shuttle bus (called "Airport Shuttle" run by Chiba Kotsu) available from/to Narita Airport

Single: 11,000- (per person; including service charge and tax)
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Phone: 03-3456-2222
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