Program: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
All sessions on Saturday will take place in Calhoun 100.
| 09:00 - 10:00 | General Session Keynote Strategic Shortcuts and Provisional Representations in Children's Language Learning Colin Bannard (UT Austin) |
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| 10:15 - 12:30 | Morning General Session |
| Moderator: Colin Bannard | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Chinese Conditionals Revisited: On Modal Implication and Pronoun Distributions Yahui Anita Huang (UT Austin) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Natural Logic, de Morgan Inferences, and Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic Frederick Hoyt (UT Austin) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Situation entities and genre distinctions in the Penn Discourse TreeBank Alexis Palmer, Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | The Contrastive Topic: Not Simply Contrastive + Topic Michihiko Kawamura (Shizuoka University) |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 17:45 | The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Opening Remarks: Stephen Wechsler |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | The De Se Theory of Indexicals: Convergent Evidence from Philosophy, Psychology, and Typology Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Sources of Lexical Inferences Lauri Karttunen (PARC/Stanford University) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | break |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Going from X to Y Annie Zaenen (PARC) |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Bounded-rational theory of mind for conversational implicature Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University) |