<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All, <br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Just a reminder that abstract submissions to the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (<a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">CUNY 2021</a>) are due this Friday Dec 18, at 11:59 PM. Submission instructions can be found at: <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/submissions/" target="_blank">https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/submissions/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note that there will be a small registration fee (to be determined).<b> </b>This fee will be waived for all students and for anyone else who feels unable to pay (no questions asked).  <br></div><div><br></div><div>Additional conference information can be found at: <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021" target="_blank">https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>John Trueswell<br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">-------------------------------------------------------</div><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>

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is now open for the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (<a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">CUNY 2021</a>).  You may submit your abstracts here:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Abstracts EXTENDED; Now due before 11:59pm (Eastern Standard Time)
on </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> DECEMBER 18TH 2020.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">CUNY 2021 will take place Thursday, March 4 – Saturday, March 6,
2021.  It will be held virtually and
hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. The conference focuses on the
comprehension, production, and acquisition of language at the sentence level,
traditionally drawing researchers from psychology, linguistics, cognitive
science, neuroscience, computer science, education, and philosophy.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The special session of CUNY 2021 is "Language
Acquisition and Language Processing: Finding New Connections”, funded by the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">National Science Foundation</a>. This special
session will include presentations from six eminent researchers who bridge
language acquisition and processing, a poster* session dedicated to this theme,
and awards for student presenters. Two central questions addressed in
psycholinguistics pertain to acquisition and process. First, how do infants,
exposed to a relatively small sample of language use in context, come to
acquire a complete linguistic system that can express an almost limitless
number of ideas and conceptions? Second, how do adults access this acquired
linguistic knowledge in such an expert manner that they achieve interpretation
in real-time as the speech unfolds, typically making distinctions on a
millisecond time-scale? Traditionally, these two questions have been addressed
separately, with the field taking a divide and conquer approach, often with
great success. However, over the last two decades, the distinction between
these questions, and their artificial divide in the discipline, have been
blurred. Children as young as 24 months have been observed to interpret speech
in real-time, deploying their incomplete knowledge of the language almost as
quickly as their adult expert counterparts. Adults have been observed to be
highly adaptive, learning new patterns of speech, new terms, and even new
syntax, from brief exposures. Interestingly, developmental differences are
beginning to be uncovered in both language processing (e.g., children’s failure
to revise real-time interpretations) and language learning (e.g., whereas in
some cases children regularize ‘noisy’ input, adults may probability match).</span></p>

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Anne Christophe</a>, École Normale Supérieure</span></p>

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Fisher</a>, University of Illinois</span></p>

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Lidz</a>, University of Maryland</span></p>

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Stanford University</span></p>

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Newport</a>, Georgetown University</span></p>

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Indiana University</span></p>

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processing more generally. Abstracts may be for poster*
or for 20-minute talk slots. Instructions for submission
and the submission portal are available on the conference website <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/</a>
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conference, the conference organizers are considering replacing posters with
shorter (approximately 5 minute) talks run in a set of parallel sessions, each
thematically organized.  (E.g., five talks
followed immediately by a group discussion with the presenters).</span></p>

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Roberts, Kathryn Schuler, Florian Schwarz, and Charles Yang.</span></p>

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