Conferences

The Society for Human Sentence Processing grew out of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, initiated by Janet Fodor at the CUNY Graduate Center and held for the first time in 1988. It has been held annually, in person or virtually, every year since.  Beginning in 2022 the conference has a new name: The Nth Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing or HSPNN.

Next meeting

HSP38: University of Maryland, College Park
March 27-29, 2025

Organizers: Deanna Gagne (Gallaudet), Yi Ting Huang (UMD), Rochelle Newman (UMD), Jared Novick (UMD), Patrick Plummer (Howard), L. Robert Slevc (UMD)

Past meetings

HSP37: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
May 16-18, 2024

Conference web site

Fodor Memorial Workshop, May 15

Organizers: Julie Boland, Jon Brennan, Lisa Levinson, Rick Lewis, Savithry Namboodiripad

HSP36: University of Pittsburgh
March 9-11, 2023

Organizers: Tessa Warren; Scott Fraundorf, Mike Dickey, Chuck Perfetti, Natasha Tokowicz, and Seth Weiner

HSP35: University of California, Santa Cruz
March 24-26, 2022

Organizers: Amanda Rysling, Matt Wagers

CUNY34: University of Pennsylvania
March 4-6, 2021

Organizers: John Trueswell; Delphine Dahan, Anna Papafragou, Gareth Roberts, Kathryn Schuler, Florian Schwarz, and Charles Yang.

CUNY33: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
March 19-21, 2020

Organizers: Brian Dillon; Mara Breen, Jon Burnsky, Chuck Clifton, Jr., Lyn Frazier, John Kingston, Jennie Mack, Shota Momma, Adrian Staub

CUNY32: University of Colorado
March 29-31, 2019

Organizers: Albert Kim; Eliana Colunga, Laura Michaelis, Bhuvana Narasimhan

CUNY31: University of California, Davis
March 15-17, 2018

Special Session: Linguistic computation electrified

Organizers: Fernanda Ferreira, David Corina, John Henderson, Debra Long, Gwendolyn Rehrig, Tamara Swaab, Matthew Traxler

CUNY30: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
March 30- April 1, 2017

Special Session: Language processing and language evolution

Organizers: Edward Gibson; Idan Blank, Evelina Fedorenko, Richard Futrell, Melissa Kline, Rachel Ryskin

[We are in the process of adding more historical conference data as we transition to our new web site. Thanks for your patience. -August 2023]



29th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Florida, 2016.

Organizers: Edith Kaan, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Ratree Wayland, Steffi Wulff.

Special Session: Language Variation Within and Across Speakers

28th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Southern California, 2015.

Organizers: Elsi Kaiser, Toby Mintz, Roumyana Pancheva, Jason Zevin

Special Session: The Role of Informativity in Language Production and Comprehension

27th Annual CUNY Conference, Ohio State University, 2014.

Organizers: Shari Speer, Nikole Patson, Lauren Squires, Rory Turnbull, Laura Wagner, Abby Walker

Special Session: Experimental Pragmatics: Advancing Theory and Method

26th Annual CUNY Conference, University of South Carolina, 2013.

Organizers: Fernanda Ferreira, Amit Almor, Dirk den Ouden, Stanley Dubinsky

Special Session: Theories of Sentence Processing and the Neuroscience of Language

25th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 2012.

Organizers: Dianne Bradley, Eva Fernández, Janet Dean Fodor

Special Session: How should we best view the relation between linguistic performance  and linguistic competence?

24th Annual CUNY Conference, Stanford University, 2011.

Organizers: Thomas Wasow

Special Session: The Role of Processing in Language Variation and Change

23rd Annual CUNY Conference, New York University, 2010.

Organizers: Douglas Bemis, Jon Brennan, Suzanne Dikker, Inna Livitz, Alec Marantz, Brian McElree, Liina Pylkkänen, Hugh Rabagliati

Special Session: Advances in Neurolinguistics

22nd Annual CUNY Conference, University of California, Davis, 2009.

Organizers: Tamara Swaab, Matt Traxler

Special Session: The Relationship between Comprehension and Production

21st Annual CUNY Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008.

Organizers: Peter Gordon, Amit Almor, Jennifer Arnold, Victor Ferreira, Rebecca Nappa, Matt Traxler

Special Session: Tools and Techniques for Formal Modeling 

20th Annual CUNY Conference, University of California, San Diego, 2007.

Organizers: Victor Ferreira, Karen Emmorey, Andrew Kehler, Robert Kluender, Maria Polisnky, Lew Shapiro

Special Session: Linking Signed and Spoken Languages

19th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006.

Organizers: Dianne Bradley, Eva Fernández, Janet Dean Fodor

18th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Arizona, 2005.

Organizers: Thomas Bever, Merrill Garrett, Erin O'Bryan

Special Session: New Techniques for Analyzing Language and Speech

17th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.

Organizers: Colin Phillips, Amy Weinberg

Special Session: Relation between Sentence Comprehension and Sentence Production

16th Annual CUNY Conference, MIT/Northeastern University, 2003.

Organizers: Ted Gibson, Neal Pearlmutter, Doug Rohde, Florian Wolf

Special Session: The Processing and Acquisition of Reference

15th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 2002.

Organizers: Dianne Bradley, Eva Fernández, Janet Dean Fodor

14th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Organizers: John Trueswell, Aravind Joshi, Leila Gleitman

Special Session: World-situated Language Use: Bridging the Product and Action Traditions

13th Annual CUNY Conference, UC San Diego, 2000.

12th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1999.

11th Annual CUNY Conference, Rutgers University, 1998.

10th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Southern California, 1997.

9th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1996.

8th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Arizona, 1995.

7th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1994.

6th Annual CUNY Conference, UMass Amherst, 1993.

5th Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1992.

4th Annual CUNY Conference, University of Rochester, 1991.

3rd Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1990.

2nd Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1989.

1st Annual CUNY Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 1988.

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