HOWL-4 Conference Schedule
October 12-14, 2007

 HOWL

 

 

Organizers: Bob Frank, Géraldine Legendre, Sara Finley, Becca Morley, Paul Smolensky

 

Location: All events are taking place on the 4th Floor in the Charles Commons Banquet and Meeting Facilities, the new JHU conference center located at Charles and 33rd Street in the same building as the Barnes and Noble University Bookstore. Talks will be held in Salon C and breakfast, breaks, and poster session in room 304 (push L in the elevator).

 

 

Friday, 10/12/07  – Tutorials (Salon C)

Tutorials are talks designed to introduce participating graduate students to the topics that will be discussed during the workshop.  The pace of these talks will be slower than a typical research talk.

 

Morning: Phonology

9:15-10:45       Colin Wilson, UCLA: Structure and Statistics in the Input

10:45-11:00     Coffee break  

11:00-12:30     John Kingston, UMass: Autonomy vs. Interaction

 

12:30-2:00       Lunch break (on your own)

 

Afternoon: Number

2:00-3:30:        Lisa Feigenson, JHU:   Core Systems of Number

3:30-3:45         Coffee break

3:45-5:15        Graham Katz, Georgetown: Quantifiers, Plurals and the Semantics of Number

 

           

 

Saturday, 10/13/07 – Syntax/Semantics of Number (talks in Salon C; breaks in 304)

 

8:45- 9:30        Breakfast

 

9:30-9:9:45      Introduction and welcome to HOWL 4

 

9:45-10:45       Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University: On the Conceptual Role of Number

                            Marking in French Based Creoles

 

10:45-11:00     Coffee break

 

11:00-12:00     Peter Gordon, Columbia University: The Importance of Being Arbitrary:

                            Causes of Variation in Numerical Cognition and Representation

           

12:00-1:45       Lunch break (on your own)

 

1:45-2:45         Justin Halberda, JHU & Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland: Beyond

                            Truth Conditions: Towards a Psychosemantics for 'most'

 

2:45-3:00         Coffee break

 

3:00-4:00         Robin Clark, University of Pennsylvania: Language and Precise

                            Number: The Neurobiology of Quantification

 

4:00-5:00         Discussion  (Discussant Bob Frank, JHU)

 

5:00-6:30         Poster session and Reception

 

8:00                 Dinner party chez Legendre-Smolensky (transportation by van)

 

 

 

Sunday, 10/14/07 – How the Cognitive System Shapes Phonology (talks in Salon C; breaks in 304)

 

8:45- 9:30        Breakfast

 

9:30-10:30       John Kingston, University of Massachusetts:  New Arguments for

                            Autonomy

 

10:30-10:45     Coffee break

 

10:45-11:45     Jay McClelland, Stanford University & Brent vander Wyk, CMU:

                        Graded Constraints in English Word Forms

 

11:45-1:30       Lunch break (on your own)

 

1:30-2:30         Lisa Davidson, NYU: Realistic Input and the Processing of Phonetic

                            Detail: Moving Beyond CV Ssyllables

 

2:30-2:45         Coffee break

 

2:45-3:45         LouAnn Gerken, University of Arizona: What is the Relation of Cross-

                            Linguistic Patterns and Language Development?

 

3:45-4:45         Discussion (Discussant: Colin Wilson, UCLA)

 

4:45-6:00         Reception

 

Poster Session: Saturday 5:00-6:30 pm, Room 304

Jennifer Culbertson, JHU, Géraldine Legendre, JHU, Nathalie Filipin, and Thierry Nazzi, Université Paris Descartes
Experimental Evidence on Subject Doubling in Spoken French

Sara Finley, Johns Hopkins University
Substantive Biases for Vowel Harmony Languages

Scott Fults, University of Maryland - College Park
Grammar and Vagueness

Ari Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University
Active phonological Processes for Level 2 Morphology:  Evidence from Acquired Aphasia

Lotte Hogeweg, Radboud, University Nijmegen & Johns Hopkins University
On the Acquisition of Polysemous Wel: Evidence against a Frequency Based Account

Kati Keuper, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster & Johns Hopkins University, A. Jorschick, Universität Münster, P. Zwitserlood, Universität Münster
Asymmetry of Switch Costs When Switching Between Speech Production Tasks:  Basic Level Picture Naming and Category Identification

Vanja Kljajevic, Carleton University, Ottawa
Skipping the Lexicon?  From Syntax to Conceptual Knowledge

Tracy Jordan Lennertz & Iris Berent, Florida Atlantic University
Markedness Constraints on the Perception of S/Z-Initial Onset Clusters

Heidi Lorimor, University of Mary Washington & Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Expressing Number Agreement for Pre- and Post-verbal Subjects in Lebanese Arabic

Becca Morley, Johns Hopkins University
Diachronic Change, the Learner, and the Lexicon

Ozge Ozturk & Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware
Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish

Daniele Panizza, University of Trento
On the Scalar Interpretation and the Processing of Numerals

Deepti Ramadoss, Johns Hopkins University
Exemplars Versus Mental Categories in the Tonal Phonology of Yoruba

Yasuhiro Sasahira, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On Counting Situations:  The Mass-Court Distinction in the Domain of Situations

Rachel Sussman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
When is a Spatula, Just a Spatula?:  Investigating the Link Between Observed Events and the Online Interpretation of Verb-Instrument Biases

Shih-Ju Young, The University of Georgia
English Lexicon in Mandarin A-not-A Questions:  Nĭ [An] bù understand?