The 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC3), Aug 31, 2015

University of Potsdam, Germany

The 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC3) will take place on August 31, 2015.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Location of colloquium

The colloquium will be held at the IKMZ building (the library) in Golm campus. This is building 18 on this map. Here is a floor plan of the ground floor of the library building (the room circled in red is the conference room, which has the word Veranstaltungsraum written outside it): Note that in the map above it is called the Vortragsraum, but the room itself has the word Veranstaltungsraum written outside it.

Location of lunch and poster session

Haus 14, room 215/216. I will accompany everyone to the lunch location. We will provide sandwiches, coffee, refreshments, etc.

Program

• 8:30-9AM: Registration
• 9:00-10:00AM: Wing Yee Chow, University College London, How do we compute predictions for an upcoming verb? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese and English.
• 10:00-10:30AM: Talk 1 Ming Xiang, Yanling Cui, Suiping Wang: , Constructing Covert Dependencies.
• 10:30-11:00AM: Coffee break
• 11:00-12:00AM: Fuyun Wu, Shanghai International Studies University, Producing asymmetric patterns of determiner phrases in Chinese Relative Clauses by Second Language learners: A cross-linguistic perspective.
• 12:00-2:00PM: Lunch and poster session
  1. Jun Lyu and Fuyun Wu, L1 transfer modulates positioning bias of demonstrative-classifiers in Chinese relatives: A contrastive study on Japanese- and Korean-speaking L2-Chinese learners
  2. Jinman Li, Fuyun Wu, Yaling Hsiao, Processing Topic structures by native and non-native Chinese speakers
  3. Mikihiro Tanaka, Planning association of causes and consequences in Japanese
  4. Yang Yang, Leticia Pablos, Niels Schiller, Lisa Cheng, Processing of D-linked and non-D-linked wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese
  5. Jessie Nixon, Cross-category effects and prime-target frequency interactions in reading aloud lexical tones: A mixed effects model of ERPs
• 2:00-2:30PM: Talk 2 Panpan Yao, Linnaea Stockall 'Yi ba xiao shanzi' or 'yi xiao ba shanzi' -- Syntactic cues for mass/count expectation in Mandarin Chinese
• 2:30-3:00PM: Talk 3 Jessie Nixon, Eye movements reveal Cantonese listeners use statistical information to assess category membership of acoustic cues
• 3:00-3:30PM: Talk 4 Zhong Chen, Structural and non-structural expectations in Chinese sentence comprehension
• 3:30-4:00PM: Coffee break
• 4:00-5:00PM Masaya Yoshida, Northwestern University, Motivations and Restrictions on the Longer Dependency Formation in Japanese

Talk and poster specifications

Each talk will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes discussion. Posters should be A0 size, portrait orientation (longer side up).

Accommodation and arrival information

The nearest airports to Potsdam are Berlin Tegel and Berlin Schoenefeld.
It is easy to get to the university campus from Berlin if you are staying near Berlin Zoo station. There is a direct train (about 35 minutes' ride) from Berlin Zoo to Potsdam Golm, where the university is. You can find all train connections from this website.
The upside of staying in Potsdam is that it is really beautiful and green in summer, with lots of lovely parks and beautiful palaces. It's better than staying in Berlin if you like peace and quiet and like walking in greenery.
The upside to staying in Berlin is that it's a bigger city, with all the attendant conveniences, and is also the coolest city in the world. It's very easy to get to from Potsdam, though, so you can get the best of both worlds if you like.
If you decide to stay in Potsdam, we recommend Hotel am Luisenplatz. If you decide to stay in Berlin, we recommend the following two hotels: Somewhat more upscale Hotel Abion; somewhat more minimalist Hotel Tiergarten. These hotels are near my own apartment, and if you stay here, I (Shravan) can accompany you to the university on August 31st.
For those on a budget, see here (Berlin) and here (Potsdam).

Contact

Shravan Vasishth, Email: vasishth.shravan AT gmail dot com
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Potsdam
14476 Potsdam
Germany