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
Organizers: Deanna Gagne (Gallaudet), Yi Ting Huang (UMD), Rochelle Newman (UMD), Jared Novick (UMD), Patrick Plummer (Howard), L. Robert Slevc (UMD)
Past meetings
Fodor Memorial Workshop, May 15
Organizers: Julie Boland, Jon Brennan, Lisa Levinson, Rick Lewis, Savithry Namboodiripad
Organizers: Tessa Warren; Scott Fraundorf, Mike Dickey, Chuck Perfetti, Natasha Tokowicz, and Seth Weiner
Organizers: Amanda Rysling, Matt Wagers
Organizers: John Trueswell; Delphine Dahan, Anna Papafragou, Gareth Roberts, Kathryn Schuler, Florian Schwarz, and Charles Yang.
Organizers: Albert Kim; Eliana Colunga, Laura Michaelis, Bhuvana Narasimhan
CUNY31: University of California, Davis
March 15-17, 2018
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
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.
Historical archive:
https://cuny2012.commons.gc.cuny.edu/previous-years/