Programme

Friday 24 April

9.00-10.00		Registration and coffee
	Session 1: Defining quantitative limitations
10.00-11.00	Ted Gibson (MIT)	Quantitative investigations of syntactic representation and processing
11.00-12.00	Alan Baddeley (York)	Working memory and language
12.00-13.30		Lunch
	Session 2: Effects of quantitative limitations
13.30-14.00	Claudia Felser & Ian Cummings (Essex)	Is principle A defeasible? The role of working memory in the processing of reflexives
14.00-14.30	Claire Wright (Newcastle)	The role of working memory in the process of second language acquisition
14.30-15.30	Laurie Stowe, Jantien Donkers, Yi Fei He & Hua-Chen Xiang (Groningen)	Remembering your commitments: Processing demands of linguistic predictions
15.30-16.00		Break
	Session 3: Language Design
16.00-16.30	Miriam Bouzouita (Universitat de les Illes Balears)	Formal vs. processing explanations in historical linguistics: The case study of Spanish clitic placement
16.30-17.00	Ruth Kempson & Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (King’s College London)	The person case constraint as a restriction on tree growth
17.00-17.15		Break
17.15-18.15	Colin Phillips (Maryland)	Overgeneration in parsing and grammar
18.15-19.30		Wine Reception

Saturday 25 April

8.30-9.30		Registration and coffee
9.30-10.30	Lyn Frazier (Massachusetts)	Explaining syntax: The role of acceptable ungrammaticality
10.30-11.30	Nigel Duffield (Sheffield)	Reading what’s missing: What eyetracking can tell us about the representation and processing of VP ellipsiss
11.30-12.00		Break
12.00-13.00	Phillip Hofmeister (UCSD) & Ivan Sag (Stanford)	Can processing explain subjacency effects?
13.00-14.30		Lunch
14.30-15.00	Kofi Saah (Ghana) & Helen Goodluck (York) )	How Akan drives us to retain a competence account of islands
15.00-15.30	Ian Cummings, Claire Batterham, Claudia Felser & Harald Clahsen (Essex)	Sensitivity to strong islands in native and nonnative sentence comprehension: Towards a processing based account
15.30-16.00		Break
16.00-17.00		Roundtable Discussion