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

这笔资金将用于支持2012年3月在纽约城市大学研究生中心举行的纽约市立大学人类句子处理会议的一个特别会议。25年来，纽约市立大学系列会议一直专注于心理语言学的核心问题，包括语言学、心理学、计算机科学和认知神经科学的全方位经验方法和理论观点。为了响应所有这些贡献学科的近期研究发展的显著加速，特别会议将展示语言知识和语言处理如何相互关联的当前模型。这个基本问题支撑着所有关于句子处理的实证和理论研究。是否有可能嵌入语言学家设计的语法，作为语言理解或生成的处理机制的工作组件？或者，假设“语言学”语法可能以这种方式表达处理，这是错误的吗？为了全面了解人类大脑如何能够进行这种最独特的人类活动，需要对语言知识和语言使用之间的相互作用有一个明确的认识。这次特别会议也标志着对句法加工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）的加工。六名受邀演讲者将讨论这些主题，特别会议将以从提交的摘要中选出的相关演讲结束。总的来说，这些演讲将加深和拓宽将在未来几年占据心理语言学社区的问题。会议将通过减免注册费和旅费支持学生参与，欢迎新一代的年轻科学家加入国际心理语言学界。出版一册载有应邀发言者的发言和有关提交的报告的书，将使更广泛的听众受益于这一特殊场合。

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.