12th annual cuny conference human sentence processing preliminary announcement call abstracts 12th annual cuny conference human sentence processing hosted cuny graduate center 33 west 42nd street new york ny positively last cuny conference 42nd street march 1820 1999 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ abstract deadline papers november 16 1998 abstract deadline posters january 11 1999 detailed information abstract submission see final panel announcement _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ general information conference special sessions hard constraints soft constraints organized introduced mark johnson brown university invited speakers include hans uszkoreit university saarland eugene charniak brown university ii syntactic features sentence processing beginning linguistics tutorial syntax features marcel den dikken cuny graduate center followed submitted papers paper poster submissions related topic especially welcomed iii first new series special sessions called would take decide whether first year issue whether parsing serial parallel moderated charles clifton jnr university massachusetts speakers richard lewis ohio state university edward gibson massachusetts institute technology conference dates location conference held harold proshansky auditorium graduate school university center city university new york midtown manhattan 42nd street fifth sixth avenues sessions start 12 noon thursday march 18 registration 10 30 end 6 00 pm saturday march 20 poster sessions evenings march 18 19 information local reasonably priced hotels available next announcement sent end october financial support cuny conference operates shoestring always kept registration fees low possible especially students also make travel awards students way make ends meet barely contributions cuny institutions immensely grateful financial support encourage encourage administration make donation good cause provide paperwork support request billing process amount welcome past contributions ranged 300 5 000 please approach dean provost financial officer company explain valuable forum cuny conference exchange research ideas conference organizers janet dean fodor dianne bradley ph program linguistics cuny graduate center 33 west 42nd street new york ny 10036 address correspondence sentproc email gc cuny edu _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ abstract submissions 12th annual cuny conference human sentence processing soliciting abstracts papers posters presenting theoretical experimental computational research aspect human sentence processing abstracts reviewed anonymously considered general conference sessions special session syntactic features sentence processing submission deadlines consideration spoken paper sessions november 16 1998 consideration poster january 11 1999 submit abstract abstract text longer 400 words addition may include examples data summaries references however latter together exceed 15 lines top abstract please include names affiliations authors email address author handle correspondence also indicate whether wish abstract considered paper poster paper poster last category means would willing present work poster abstract accepted spoken paper sessions please leave several blank lines information abstract proper title text facilitate anonymous review submit abstracts accept email submissions addressed sentproc email gc cuny edu please use plain text possible use subject header abstract submit one abstract must separately mailed separately acknowledged _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _