Program: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

All sessions on Saturday will take place in Calhoun 100.

09:00 - 10:00General Session Keynote
Strategic Shortcuts and Provisional Representations in Children's Language Learning
Colin Bannard (UT Austin)
10:15 - 12:30Morning 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)