Thirty-second LACUS Forum

 

Dartmouth College, August 2-6, 2005

 

Conference Theme: Networks

Sub-themes:

Neurolinguistics

Computer Simulation of Linguistic Processes

Linguistics vis-à-vis “Hard” Science

 

 

LACUS 2005 has been supported by a generous grant from the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.

 

Program

(updated July 18, 2005)

 

The conference is taking place in the Hopkins Center and Wilson Hall buildings, which are adjacent and connected. The areas of the Hopkins Center that we are using are: Alumni Hall, Faculty Lounge, and “Top of the Hop”, all of which are located on the 2nd floor. In Wilson Hall we are using room 219 (on the ground floor). All plenary sessions and the parallel sessions designated “A” take place in Alumni Hall; the parallel sessions designated “B” take place in Wilson Hall 219. The Faculty Lounge will house a Book Display, a demo by Alexander Gross entitled “The Truth about Translation”, and a demo by Daniel Mailman of a “Multi-language, multi-font language-input system”. The Faculty Lounge is also being used for coffee breaks, and for registration after Tuesday. Other locations are indicated at the appropriate points in the program.

 

Both lecture rooms are equipped for Powerpoint presentations and contain overhead projectors and blackboards/whiteboards.

 

Tuesday 2 August

1:30 – 4:30, Chair: David Bennett, Wilson Hall 219

Tutorial on Hard-Science Linguistics

 

1:30 The VIC Simulator

(Douglas Coleman)

 

2:15 Moving to Hard-Science (Human) Linguistics

(Bernard Sypniewski)

 

3:00 Handling Context Dependence in a Human Linguistic Framework

(Lara Burazer)

 

3:45 The Conceptual Structure of Hard-Science Linguistics

(Victor Yngve)

  

4:00 – 6:00 Conference Registration                                                              Top of the Hop

                        Registration will continue 7:00 – 7:30

4:30 – 6:00 Reception                                                                                     Top of the Hop

 

Opening Session                                                                                            Alumni Hall

7:30 Welcoming Remarks

            Tim Pulju (Dartmouth College, Local Organizer)

                        Barry Scherr (Provost, Dartmouth College)

Sydney Lamb (Rice University; Chair, LACUS Board of Directors)

7:45 Inaugural Lecture:                                                                               (Chair: Sydney Lamb)

 

Reka Albert, Pennsylvania State University

“General Network Theory”

Wednesday 3 August

 

8:30 - 10:00, Chair: Lois Stanford, Alumni Hall

Hard-Science Linguistics

 

8:30 Douglas Coleman (University of Toledo)

“A Formal Integrated View of Speech, Gesture, Gaze and its Implications for Learning”

 

9:00 Alexander Wrege (University of Toledo)

“Non-Verbal Communication in the Real World”

 

9:30 Victor Yngve (University of Chicago)

“Amazing Rewards from Formalizing the Observer”

10:00 – 10:30 Break

 

Session A (10:30 – 12:00), Chair: Inga Dolinina, Alumni Hall

Social Networks

 

10:30 Alan Melby and Paul Fields (Brigham Young University)

“Termbases, Statistics, and Social Networks”

 

11:00 Connie Eble (University of North Carolina)

“The Loss of French in Antebellum Louisiana: A Social Network Perspective”

 

11:20 Lynn Clark (University of Edinburgh)

“A Cognitive Approach to Social Networks”

 

11:40 Mikolaj Sobocinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)

“A Street Façade – A Net that Works: An Analysis of Distances Created by Store Entrance Notices”

 

Session B (10:30 – 12:00), Chair: Douglas Coleman, Wilson Hall 219

Hard-Science Linguistics

 

10:30 Bernard Sypniewski (Rowan University, Camden, NJ)

“J. L. Austin and Gay Marriage”

 

11:00 Lara Burazer (University of Ljubljana)

“Human Linguistics and Referring in the Real World”

 

11:30 Mojca Brezar (University of Ljubljana) and Victor Yngve (University of Chicago)

“Props and their Values in a Business Negotiation”

 

12:00 – 1:30    Lunch Break

 

Wednesday Afternoon

1:30 – 4:00, Chair: Stephen Straight, Alumni Hall

 

1:30 Robert Longacre (University of Texas, Arlington)

“On the Psychological Reality of Discourse Templates”

 

Science and Linguistics (2:00 – 4:00), Chair: Stephen Straight, Alumni Hall
2:00 Sydney Lamb

“Being Realistic, Being Scientific”

 

2:45 – 3:15      Break

 

3:15 Robert Orr (Ottawa)

“Linguistics as a ‘Science’: Towards a Language-Based Linguistics”

 

4:00     Invited Lecture:                                                                                 (Chair: Sydney Lamb)

 

Alexander Gross, translator, playwright, independent researcher

“Is Evidence Based Linguistics the Solution?

Is Voodoo Linguistics the Problem?”

 

7:00  Board of Directors Meeting                                                                   Reed Hall 001

 

Thursday 4 August

 

8:30 – 10:00, Chair: Patrick Duffley, Alumni Hall

Computer Simulation of Linguistic Processing

 

8:30 Daniel Mailman (OHAI Technologies)

“EME-WARE: From Emic Analysis to Practical Input Systems”

  

9:00 Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)

“Natural Language Generation and the Use of Relational Information”

 

9:30 Peter J. Nürnberg (Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark) and Michael L. Roberts (Xtructure, Inc., Houston, TX) 

“Xnet: A Flexible Visual Environment for Modeling Dynamic Networks”

 

10:00 – 10:30  Break

 

Session A (10:30 – 12:00), Michael Cummings, Alumni Hall

Computer Simulation of Linguistic Processing

 

10:30 Harry Howard (Tulane University)

“Liquid-State Networks for Actionality”

 

11:00 Steve Chandler (University of  Idaho)

“Computer Simulations of Analogical Modeling”

 

11:20 Earl Herrick (Texas A&M University-Kingsville)

“A Computerized Level-by-Level Model of Transduction”

 

11:40 Alexandre Sévigny and James McMullan (McMaster University)

“Time-Linear, Procedural Grammars and Linguistic Explanation”

 

Session B (10:30 – 12:00), Chair: Shin Ja Hwang, Wilson Hall 219

Grammar

 

10:30 Inga Dolinina (McMaster University) 

“Quantificatinal Properties of Slavic Verbal Prefixes”

 

11:00 Linda Stump Rashidi (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania)

“The Transitivity System of Dari”

 

11:20 Elise Couper  (American Universiity, Washington, D.C.)

“‘There’s some things that I learned’: Number Concord with the Non-referential There-Form There’s in Spoken American English”

 

11:40 Michael Kliffer (McMaster University)

“Exceptions as a By-Product of the Code/Norm Division of Labour”

 

12:00 – 1:30    Lunch Break

 
Thursday Afternoon

 

Relational Networks (1:30 – 4:00), Chair: Toby Griffen, Alumni Hall

 

1:30 Luke van Buuren  (Linguavox, Bloemendaal, Netherlands)

“Focus or Scope of Pitch-accent: Speaker versus Hearers”

 

2:00 Christina Marshall, Joel Clark, and Olya Sanakoev (University of Toronto) 

“Diachronic Analysis of French Morphology and Syntax from a Relational Network Perspective”

 

2:20 Ian Castor Chow (City University of Hong Kong)

“Automating the Import of Lexical Data into a Network System: Mapping WordNet with Relational Network Notation”

           

2:40 William Sullivan (Uniwersytet Wroclawski and UMCS Lublin)

 “An Artifact of the Description: The Good and the Bad of an OT Approach”

 

3:00 – 3:30      Break

 

3:30 David Bennett (SOAS, University of London)

“The Evolution of Clitic Systems: a Lexicalization Explanation”

 

4:00     Invited Lecture:                                                                     (Chair: David Bennett)

 

Richard Hudson, University College London

“A Computer Model of Inheritance Networks in Language”

 

Tutorial on Neurolinguistics (7:00 – 9:30), Chair: Peter Reich, Alumni Hall

 

7:00 Introduction to the Brain: Anatomy and Operation, with Special Reference to Linguistic Processing

(Sydney Lamb)

 

7:45 Findings from Brain-Damage

(Elissa Asp)

 

8:30 Brain Imaging, with Special Attention to Magnetoencephalography, the Latest Neuroimaging Technique

(Barbra Novak)

 

9:15 Questions and Discussion

 

Friday 5 August

 

 (8:30 – 10:00), Chair: Linda Rashidi, Alumni Hall

 

8:30 Patrick Duffley (Laval University)

“The English Gerund-Participle in Cognitive Grammar”

 

9:00 – 10:00, Chair: Linda Rashidi, Alumni Hall

Multi-Clause Expressions

 

9:00 Tjoe Liong Kwee (University of Amsterdam)

“Adverbial Clause Adjunction and ‘Upward’ Recursion”

 

9:30 Cristiano Broccias (University of Genoa)

“The English Simultaneity Network: The Case of as- and while-Clauses”

 

10:00 – 10:30              Break

 

10:30 – 12:00, Chair: Connie Eble, Alumni Hall

Neurocognitive Perspectives

 

10:30 Shahla Raghibdoust (University of Montreal and McGill University) and Eta Schneiderman (University of Ottawa)

“Syntactic Comprehension and Grammaticality Judgement in Persian-Speaking Agrammatics”

 

Session A (11:00 – 12:00), Chair: Connie Eble, Alumni Hall

Neurocognitive Perspectives

 

11:00 Catherine Jones (Royal Holloway College, University of London)

“An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of the Welsh Mutation System on Welsh Speaking Dyslexics”

 

11:20  Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of New Mexico)

“A Domain-General, Single-Mechanism Account of Frequency Effects”

 

11:40 Aya Katz (Inverted-A, Inc.)

“The Effect of Neurodiversity on Transmission of Information Through Language”

 

Session B (11:20 – 12:00), Chair: Sarah Tsiang, Wilson Hall 219

 

11:20 Lilly Lee Chen (Rice University)

“Metaphor in Chinese Bronze Inscription”

 

11:40 Saul Levin (SUNY Binghamton)

“The Friendship of Thomas More and Erasmus”

 

12:00 – 1:30    Lunch Break

  
Friday Afternoon

  

Neurolinguistics (1:30 – 5:20), Chair: Sydney Lamb, Alumni Hall

 

1:30 Barbra Novak (Rice University) 

“Nouns and Verbs in the Mental Lexicon”

 

2:00 Elissa Asp (St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS) and Kenneth Rockwood (Dalhousie University, Halifax)

“Neuroimaging Review of Verbal Memory and Executive Function in MCI, AD, and NCI”

 

2:30 Donald Loritz (LexisNexis)

“Encoding Syntax in Rhythmic Neural Networks”

 

3:00 – 3:30      Break

 

3:30 Eleni Koutsomitopoulou (LexisNexis UK)

“Lateral Inhibition in Neuronal Interaction as a Biological, Computational and Linguistic Commodity”

 

4:00 Jodi Tommerdahl (University of Central England)

“What does Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Tell us about the Neurological Arrangement of Language in the Human Brain?”

 

4:20 Francis Jeanson (University of Toronto)

“The Processing of Meaning in the Two Hemispheres”

 

4:40 Heather Kamp (University of Toronto)

“Does the Right Hemisphere Hold All the Cards Metaphorically?”

 

5:00 Jessica de Villiers (University of British Columbia)

“Semantic Patterns in Neuroimaging Studies in Autism Spectrum Disorder”

 

Saturday 6 August

 

8:30 – 10:00, Chair: Lilly Chen, Alumni Hall

 

8:30 Shin Ja Hwang (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and SIL International)

“Clause Combining in English Narrative Discourse”

 

Session A (9:00 – 10:00), Chair: Lilly Chen, Alumni Hall

Discourse

 

9:00 Yili Shi (Southwest Missouri State University)

“The Demonstrative Determiner Nei and Register Variation: A Comparison of Conversation and News Broadcasts in Chinese”

 

9:20 Kyong-Sook Song (Dongeui University, Korea, and Georgetown University)

“Narrative Schema in Computer-Mediated Discourse”

 

9:40 Midori Shimizu  (Kobe Women’s University)

“Viewpoints in Discourse”

 

Session B (9:00 – 10:00), Chair: William Sullivan, Wilson Hall 219

Lexicon

 

9:00 Michael Cummings (York University)

“Measuring Lexical Distributions across Theme and Rheme”

 

9:20 Sarah Tsiang (Eastern Kentucky University)

 “Recycling War Material: Bases for Lexical Repetition in the language of War”

 

9:40 Rennie Gonsalves (Brooklyn College)

“The Verb Keep in Lexical Semantics: A Comparative Study”

 

10:00 – 10:30              Break

 

Linguistic Change (10:30 – 12:00), Chair: Tim Pulju, Alumni Hall

 

10:30 Graham Williams (Independent scholar, Sydney, Australia)

“Divine Twins: Thumb and Forefinger”

 

11:00 John Boyle (University of Chicago)

“Switch-Reference in Hidatsa: Past and Present”

 

11:20 Peter Reich (University of Toronto)

“Where the Twain Meet: Literature’s Effect on Language”

 

11:40 Tajudeen Surakat (Islamic University, Uganda)

“The Acquisition of English by Nigerian Pre-schoolers”

 

12:30 Past Presidents’ Luncheon

Local restaurant

 

2:00 Publications Committee Meeting

Reed Hall 001

 

3:00 – 5:00 Evidence-Based Linguistics Workshop, Chair: David Bennett, Wilson Hall 219

(Alexander Gross)

 

6:30 Annual Banquet

Brace Commons (next to Andres Hall)

 

6:30 Dinner

 

7:45 Presidents’ Prizes

 

8:00 Presidential Address:                                                                  (Chair: Lois Stanford)

 

Toby Griffen (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

“Language and Fragmentation: The Case of Celtic Britain”

 

9:00 Entertainment