Grammars and Parsers: Toward a Unified Theory of Language Knowledge and Use. Special Session at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Procesing

经费将用于支持将于2012年3月在纽约市立大学研究生院举行的纽约市立大学人类句子处理会议特别会议。25年来，CUNY会议系列一直聚焦于心理语言学的核心问题，涵盖了语言学、心理学、计算机科学和认知神经科学的各种经验方法和理论观点。为了应对所有这些贡献学科最近研究进展的显著加快，特别会议将展示语言知识和语言处理相互关联的现有模式。这个基本问题是句子加工的所有经验和理论研究的基础。是否有可能将语言学家设计的语法作为语言理解或产生的处理机制的工作组件？或者，假设“语言学”语法可能会以这种方式与加工过程联系在一起，这是错误的吗？为了全面了解人脑如何能够进行这种最独特的人类活动，需要对语言知识和使用之间的相互作用有明确的认识。特别会议也标志着句法处理的传统研究重点的扩大，包括语义(句子意义)和韵律(口语句子的旋律和节奏)的处理。六位受邀发言者将讨论这些主题，特别会议将以从提交的摘要中挑选出的相关发言作为补充。总的来说，这些演讲将深化和拓宽心理语言学社区在未来几年将面临的问题。会议将通过降低注册费和旅行支持来支持学生参与，从而欢迎新一代年轻科学家加入国际心理语言学社区。出版一册载有受邀发言者的发言和提交的相关发言的卷，将使更多的受众能够享受到这一特殊场合的好处。

Funding will support a special session at the March 2012 meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, to be held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. For 25 years the CUNY Conference series has focused on central issues in psycholinguistics, embracing a full range of empirical methodologies and theoretical perspectives in linguistics, psychology, computer science, and cognitive neuroscience. Responding to a remarkable acceleration of recent research developments in all of these contributing disciplines, the special session will showcase current models of how language knowledge and language processing interrelate. This fundamental question underpins all empirical and theoretical studies of sentence processing. Is it possible to embed a grammar, as devised by linguists, as a working component of a processing mechanism for language comprehension or production? Or is it a mistake even to suppose that 'linguistic' grammars might articulate with processing in such a fashion? To achieve a comprehensive understanding of how the human brain is capable of this most distinctively human activity, a sure sense is needed of the interplay between language knowledge and use. The special session also marks a broadening of the traditional focus of research on syntactic processing to include the processing of semantics (sentence meanings) and prosody (the melody and rhythm of spoken sentences). Six invited speakers will address these topics and the special session will be rounded out with related presentations selected from submitted abstracts. Collectively, these presentations will both deepen and broaden the questions that will occupy the psycholinguistics community in coming years. The conference will welcome a new generation of young scientists into the international psycholinguistics community by supporting students' participation with reduced registration fees and travel support. Publication of a volume containing the contributions of the invited speakers and related submitted presentations will make the benefits of this special occasion available to a wider audience.