CUNY Conference 2009 Special Session

该提案要求国家科学基金会提供资金，以支持学生和杰出的发言人参加将于2009年3月在加州大学戴维斯分校举行的纽约市立大学人类句子处理会议的句子处理特别会议。为了理解人们如何说话和理解语言，研究人员需要考虑说话和理解如何相互影响。目前，语言研究者倾向于把理解和说作为单独的现象，他们建立单独的理论来处理这两个领域。尽管语言理解和言语理论的发展已经取得了实质性的进展，即使两者被分开研究，如果研究人员考虑如何生产影响理解，反之亦然，更好的理解是可能的。该项目的近期目标是促进研究产出的研究人员和研究理解的研究人员之间的交流，进一步的目标是1）鼓励和发展语言理解和语言产出研究人员之间的合作，2）通过鼓励研究人员在他们的模型中包括理解和产出之间的联系来推进语言学和心理语言学理论，3）促进研究，整合概念的生产和理解，使所产生的理论提供了一个更全面的描述人类语言。 纽约市立大学人类句子处理会议是对实验心理语言学和句子处理感兴趣的研究人员最突出和最成功的会议之一。拟议的第22届纽约市立大学人类句子处理年会特别会议将为语言研究人员创造一些重要而独特的机会，使他们与非常成功的学者接触，这些学者的工作弥合了言语和语言理解之间的差距。特别会议将涉及来自多个学科的研究人员，以促进跨学科研究和促进新的和令人兴奋的合作。这笔资金还将帮助研究生以各种方式参加会议，包括降低费用和获得旅行支持的机会。最后，受邀发言者包括代表性不足的少数群体成员。

This proposal requests NSF funding to support students and distinguished speakers for a special session on sentence processing at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing to be held in March 2009 at the University of California, Davis. To understand how people speak and comprehend language, researchers need to consider how speaking and comprehension influence each other. Currently, language researchers tend to treat understanding and speaking as separate phenomena, and they build separate theories to handle the two domains. Although substantial progress has been made in developing theories of language understanding and speech even when the two are investigated separately, a better understanding is possible if researchers consider how production affects comprehension and vice versa. The immediate goal of this project is to foster communication between researchers who study production and researchers who study comprehension with the further goals of 1) encouraging and developing collaboration between researchers in language comprehension and language production, 2) advancing linguistic and psycholinguistic theory by encouraging researchers to include connections between comprehension and production in their models, and 3) to promote research that integrates concepts from production and comprehension so that the resulting theories provide a more comprehensive description of human language. The CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is one of the most prominent and successful meetings for researchers interested in experimental psycholinguistics and sentence processing. The proposed special session of the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will create a number of important and unique opportunities for language researchers by bringing them into contact with highly successful scholars whose work bridges the gap between speech and language comprehension. The special session will involve researchers from multiple disciplines to foster interdisciplinary research and promote new and exciting collaborations. The funding will also help graduate students to participate in the meeting in various ways, including reduced fees and opportunities for travel support. Finally, the invited speakers include members of underrepresented minorities.