IGERT Workshop on the
Cognitive Science of Language

Department of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
7-9 January 2003

 

Practical Information:

 

 

The meeting will take place at the Colonnade Hotel.  For information on the hotel, e.g., phone number, how to get there, etc. see this link.

 

If you have any other logistical questions, contact Paul Smolensky, Bob Frank and Rachel Sala via email.

 

 

Schedule:

 

January 7: Argument structure

 

 

 

 

Handout/slides

 

9:45-10:45

Ray Jackendoff

 

 

Linking semantic and syntactic argument structure

 

 

10:45-11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00-12:00

Suzanne Stevenson

 

 

 

Inferring argument structure knowledge from statistical distributions of verbs

 

 

12:00-12:15

Coffee

 

 

12:15-1:15

Fernanda Ferreira

 

 

Structure building in human sentence processing: argument structures and general routines

 

 

1:15-2:30

Lunch

 

 

2:30-3:30

Philip Resnik

 

 

Real arguments: exploring new sources of evidence for argument structure

 

 

3:30-3:45

Coffee

 

 

3:45-4:45

Cindy Fisher

 

 

 

Syntax and meaning in early sentence comprehension

 

4:45-5:00

Coffee

 

 

5:00-6:00

discussion

 

 

6:00-6:30

Aperitif

 

 

6:30-

Dinner

 

 

 

 

January 8: Morphological decomposition

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:45-10:45

Stephen Anderson

 

 

 

WhatÕs in a word, and where is it?

 

 

10:45-11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00-12:00

Harald Baayen

 

 

Some issues in morphological processing

 

 

12:00-12:15

Coffee

 

 

12:15-1:15

Lauri Karttunen

 

 

Computational Morphology

 

 

1:15-2:30

Lunch

 

 

2:30-3:30

Iris Berent

 

 

Does a theory of language need a grammar: evidence from the Obligatory Contour Principle

 

 

3:30-3:45

Coffee

 

 

3:45-4:45

David Yarowsky

 

 

 

Minimally supervised induction of morphology

 

 

4:45-5:00

Coffee

 

 

5:00-6:00

discussion

 

 

6:00-6:30

Aperitif

 

 

7:00-

Party

 

 

 

 

January 9: Phonotactics

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:45-10:45

Donca Steriade

 

 

Phonotactics and knowledge of similarity rankings

 

 

10:45-11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00-12:00

Lisa Zsiga

 

 

Three puzzles in the phonetics and phonology of Thai tone

 

 

12:00-12:15

Coffee

 

 

12:15-1:15

Kie Zuraw

 

 

Phonotactics and the distribution of optional rules

 

 

1:15-2:30

Lunch

 

 

2:30-3:30

Colin Phillips

 

 

Phonological representations from an electrophysiological perspective

 

 

3:30-3:45

Coffee

 

 

3:45-4:45

discussion

 

 

4:45-5:00

Coffee

 

 

5:00-6:00

Where do we go from here?

 

 

6:00-6:30

Aperitif