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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)
---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)
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)
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)
