Graduate Student
Cognitive Science Conference
This year we are hosting the conference on March 4, 2016 at
the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Talks will be held in Room 107, and posters will be presented in
the graduate student office.
For details, please consult the schedule below:
12:15-1:15PM- Computational Syntax Session
1. Mike Donovan & Ryan Rhodes: Using
transducers to construct recursive minimalist trees from
linear word order
2. Keith Butler: Using colossal corpora
to identify MWE
1:15-2:30PM
Poster Session and Lunch
1. Early
exposure to geometric forms
Ilyse
Resnick, Brian Verdine, Roberta M. Golinkoff, & Kathy
Hirsh-Pasek
2. Reference frames in multisensory
integration in the mirror box illusion
Yuqi
Liu
3. Making smarter toys and
children: The influence of play materials on parental
interactions
Maya
Marzouk, Brendan Czupryna, Paige McHale, Brian Verdine, &
Roberta
M. Golinkoff
4. Spatial assembly behaviors at
age 3 relate to block building skill and later spatial skills
Maya
Marzouk, Jelani R. Medford, Rebekah Banerjee, Brian Verdine,
&
Roberta M. Golinkoff
5. Sentence processing delay of
non-natives in English causative sentences
Seungmin Eum
6. Children adopt the traits of
characters in a narrative
Rebecca Dore
7. Cognitive and language demand
of ELL math curricula
Hrysoula Davis
2:30-4:00PM Syntax Session
1. Mike Donovan: General Prohibition
2. Mai Ha Vu: Negation in Hungarian
3. Myrto Grigorouglou: Effects of
typicality and listener needs in children’s event descriptions
4:00-4:15PM Coffee Break
4:15-5:45PM Computational Phonology Session
1. Adam Jardine: Local
correspondence in phonological transformations
2.Hovsep
Deovlatian: The computational
complexity of Raimy's phonology-to-phonetics conversion
process
3. Taylor Miller: Kiowa prefixes: A computational assessment