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Building Meaning From Language
June 14 - June 19, 2007
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Proceedings
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Thursday, June 14
Opening Session
- Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University, What are words?
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- Jamshed Bharucha, Provost, Tufts University, Welcoming
Remarks
Friday, June 15
Session 1: Building Linguistic Structure: From Linguistics to
Psycholinguistics
Chair: Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University
- Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University, Building Linguistic Meaning
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- James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, Polysemy and Coercion
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- Matthew Traxler, University of California at Davis, Meaning, Argument
Structure, and Parsing
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Session 2:
Semantic Representations and Cognitive Processes
Chair: Tali Ditman, Tufts University
Panel Discussion, Sessions 1 and 2
Chair: Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Saturday, June 16
Session 3:
Semantics Grounded in Perception and Action
Chair: Tatiana Sitnikova, Massachusetts General Hospital & Tufts University
Session 4:
The Neural Basis of Building Meaning from Language
Chair: Phillip Holcomb, Tufts University
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Ann Gernsbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fine Tuning
for Meaning
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- David
Kemmerer, Purdue University, Two Levels of Verb Meaning
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- Gina
Kuperberg, Tufts University, The Neural Basis of Comprehension
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Panel Discussion, Sessions 3 and 4
Chair:
David Caplan, Harvard Medical School
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Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University, Closing Remarks
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