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★ Indicates talk is part of the special session on Language Acquisition and Language Processing: Finding New Connections
| Session | Time | Type | Title | Authors | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Session 1 (Chair: Florian Schwarz) | ||||
| 1 | 8:45 | Talk | Opening Remarks | John Trueswell | |
| 1 | 9:00 | Talk | Evaluating "each"- (but not "every"-) sentences encourages encoding individual properties | Tyler Knowlton, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski and Jeffrey Lidz | Abstract Discussion |
| 1 | 9:30 | Talk | Are logical representations quantifier-specific? Evidence from priming for a non-quantifier-specific representation of scope | Mieke Sarah Slim, Peter Lauwers and Robert J. Hartsuiker | Abstract Discussion |
| 1 | 10:00 | Talk | What primes what - An experimental framework to explore alternatives for Scalar Implicatures | Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny and Joe Cowan | Abstract Discussion |
| 2 | 10:30 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | Session 3 (Chair: Gareth Roberts) | ||||
| 3 | 11:00 | Invited Talk | ★ Developmental plasticity and lateralization of function for language | Elissa Newport | Abstract Discussion |
| 3 | 11:45 | Talk | ★ Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning | Daoxin Li and Kathryn Schuler | Abstract Discussion |
| 4 | 12:15 | Break | |||
| 5 | 12:30 | Parallel Session | Link to Thursday Parallel Session | ||
| 6 | 14:30 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Session 7 (Chair: Albert Kim) | ||||
| 7 | 15:00 | Invited Talk | ★ Second-year syntax: Discovering Dependencies | Jeffrey Lidz | Abstract Discussion |
| 7 | 15:45 | Talk | Evidence of accurate logical reasoning in online sentence comprehension | Maksymillian Dabkowski and Roman Feiman | Abstract Discussion |
| 8 | 16:15 | Break | |||
| 16:45 | Session 9 (Chair: Colin Phillips) | ||||
| 9 | 16:45 | Talk | Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination | Stephanie Rich and Matt Wagers | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:15 | Talk | The laboratory discovered: Place-for-institution metonyms appearing in subject position are processed as agents | Matthew Lowder, Adrian Zhou and Peter Gordon | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:45 | Talk | ★ Social and communicative biases jointly influence grammatical choices in learning | Gareth Roberts and Masha Fedzechkina | Abstract Discussion |
| Session | Time | Type | Title | Authors | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9:00 | Parallel Session | Link to Friday Morning Parallel Session | ||
| 2 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:30 | Session 3 (Chair: Katie Schuler) | ||||
| 3 | 11:30 | Invited Talk | ★ Bootstrapping the syntactic bootstrapper | Anne Christophe | Abstract Discussion |
| 3 | 12:15 | Talk | ★ English-learning preschoolers use negative sentences to constrain novel word meanings | Alex de Carvalho, Victor Gomes and John Trueswell | Abstract Discussion |
| 4 | 12:45 | Break | |||
| 13:00 | Session 5 (Chair: Duane Watson) | ||||
| 5 | 13:00 | Talk | ★ Speakers extrapolate community-level knowledge from individual linguistic encounters | Anita Tobar, Hugh Rabagliati and Holly Branigan | Abstract Discussion |
| 5 | 13:30 | Talk | Interference in the comprehension of filler-gap and filler-resumptive dependencies | Niki Koesterich, Maayan Keshev, Daria Shamai and Aya Meltzer-Asscher | Abstract Discussion |
| 5 | 14:00 | Talk | Manipulating difficulty at different levels of language production elicits distinct patterns of disfluency | Aurélie Pistono and Robert Hartsuiker | Abstract Discussion |
| 6 | 14:30 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Session 7 (Chair: Elsi Kaiser) | ||||
| 7 | 15:00 | Invited Talk | ★ Discourse with few words: How infants form durable and expressible memories of objects and their names | Linda Smith and Hadar Raz | Abstract Discussion |
| 7 | 15:45 | Talk | ★ English-learning children's processing of salient phonetic distinctions varying in phonological relevance for word identity | Carolyn Quam and Daniel Swingley | Abstract Discussion |
| 8 | 16:15 | Break | |||
| 16:45 | Session 9 (Chair: Jared Novick) | ||||
| 9 | 16:45 | Talk | A multifactorial approach to constituent orderings | Zoey Liu | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:15 | Talk | The dual nature of subjecthood: Unifying subject islands and that-trace effects | Rebecca Tollan and Bilge Palaz | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:45 | Talk | ★ Differential impacts of linguistic alignment across caregiver-child dyads and levels of linguistic structure | Ruthe Foushee, Dan Byrne, Marisa Casillas and Susan Goldin-Meadow | Abstract Discussion |
| 10 | 18:15 | Break | |||
| 11 | 18:30 | Parallel Session | Link to Friday Evening Parallel Session |
| Session | Time | Type | Title | Authors | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Session 1 (Chair: Daphna Heller) | ||||
| 1 | 9:00 | Talk | How do people interpret implausible sentences? | Zhenguang Cai, Nan Zhao and Martin Pickering | Abstract Discussion |
| 1 | 9:30 | Talk | ★ New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning | David A. Haslett and Zhenguang G. Cai | Abstract Discussion |
| 1 | 10:00 | Talk | A random walk down the garden path: A new implementation of self-organized parsing | Garrett Smith | Abstract Discussion |
| 2 | 10:30 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | Session 3 (Chair: John Trueswell) | ||||
| 3 | 11:00 | Invited Talk | ★ Learning verb argument-structure: Syntax and statistics | Cynthia Fisher | Abstract Discussion |
| 3 | 11:45 | Talk | ★ Three-year-olds' comprehension of contrastive and descriptive adjectives: Evidence for contrastive inference | Catherine Davies, Jamie Lingwood, Bissera Ivanova and Sudha Arunachalam | Abstract Discussion |
| 4 | 12:15 | Break | |||
| 5 | 12:30 | Parallel Session | Link to Saturday Parallel Session | ||
| 6 | 14:30 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Session 7 (Chair: Jennifer Arnold) | ||||
| 7 | 15:00 | Invited Talk | ★ Natural Language Processing has been overrun by large neural language models! What should we make of that? | Christopher Manning | Abstract Discussion |
| 7 | 15:45 | Talk | Anaphoric dependencies in the digital age: On the relation between emoji and text | Elsi Kaiser and Patrick Georg Grosz | Abstract Discussion |
| 8 | 16:15 | Break | |||
| 16:45 | Session 9 (Chair: Ming Xiang) | ||||
| 9 | 16:45 | Talk | Language Production Under Uncertainty: Advance Planning and Incrementality | Arella Gussow and Maryellen MacDonald | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:15 | Talk | Number attraction in pronoun production: evidence for antecedent feature retrieval | Cassidy Wyatt, Margaret Kandel and Colin Phillips | Abstract Discussion |
| 9 | 17:45 | Talk | A computational model of reference production based on listener visual-search costs | Julian Jara-Ettinger and Paula Rubio-Fernandez | Abstract Discussion |