Call for Papers

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

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

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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TCP 2009 - abstract submissions

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The Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

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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
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