12th annual cuny conference on human sentence processing preliminary announcement and call for abstracts 12th annual cuny conference on human sentence processing hosted by cuny graduate center 33 west 42nd street , new york ny ( positively the last cuny conference on 42nd street ! ) march 18-20 , 1999 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ abstract deadline ( papers ) : november 16 , 1998 abstract deadline ( posters ) : january 11 , 1999 ( for detailed information on abstract submission , see the final panel of this announcement . ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ general information about the conference special sessions i . " hard constraints and soft constraints " , organized and introduced by mark johnson ( brown university ) . invited speakers will include : hans uszkoreit ( university of the saarland ) eugene charniak ( brown university ) ii . " syntactic features in sentence processing " , beginning with a linguistics tutorial on " the syntax of features " by marcel den dikken ( cuny graduate center ) , and followed by submitted papers . paper and poster submissions related to this topic are especially welcomed . iii . the first of a new series of special sessions called " what would it take to decide whether . . . ? " . for this first year , the issue will be " . . . whether parsing is serial or parallel " , moderated by charles clifton , jnr . ( university of massachusetts ) . speakers will be : richard lewis ( ohio state university ) edward gibson ( massachusetts institute of technology ) conference dates and location the conference will be held in the harold m . proshansky auditorium of the graduate school and university center of the city university of new york , in midtown manhattan ( 42nd street between fifth and sixth avenues ) . sessions will start at 12 noon on thursday march 18 ( registration from 10 : 30 am ) , and will end at 6 : 00 pm on saturday march 20 . there will be poster sessions in the evenings of march 18 and 19 . information about local , reasonably priced hotels will be available in our next announcement , to be sent out at the end of october . financial support the cuny conference operates on a shoe-string . we have always kept registration fees as low as possible , especially for students . we also make travel awards to students . the way we make ends meet ( barely ! ) is by contributions from cuny and other institutions . we are immensely grateful for this financial support , and we encourage you to encourage your administration to make a donation to this good cause . we can provide paperwork to support your request and the billing process . any amount is welcome ! in the past , contributions have ranged from $ 300 to $ 5 , 000 . so please - - approach your dean , your provost , the financial officer of your company , and explain what a valuable forum the cuny conference is for the exchange of research ideas . conference organizers janet dean fodor dianne bradley ph . d . program in linguistics cuny graduate center 33 west 42nd street new york ny 10036 address for correspondence : < sentproc @ email . gc . cuny . edu > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ abstract submissions the 12th annual cuny conference on human sentence processing is soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical , experimental , and / or computational research on any aspect of human sentence processing . abstracts will be reviewed anonymously , and will be considered for both the general conference sessions and the special session on " syntactic features in sentence processing " . submission deadlines for consideration in the spoken paper sessions : november 16 , 1998 for consideration as a poster only : january 11 , 1999 what to submit in your abstract abstract text should be no longer than 400 words . in addition , you may include examples , data summaries , and references ; however the latter , together , should not exceed 15 lines . at the top of the abstract , please include the names and affiliations of all authors , and the email address of the author who will handle correspondence . also indicate whether you wish your abstract to be considered for paper only , poster only , or paper or poster . the last category means that you would be willing to present your work as a poster should the abstract not be accepted for the spoken paper sessions . please leave several blank lines between this information and the abstract proper ( title and text ) , to facilitate anonymous review . how to submit abstracts we will accept email submissions only . these should be addressed to : < sentproc @ email . gc . cuny . edu > please use plain text if possible , and use the subject header : " abstract " if you submit more than one abstract , each must be separately mailed ( and each will be separately acknowledged ) . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _