Janet Dean Fodor Memorial Workshop
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 11:30am-6:00pm
Central Campus Classroom Building (CCCB), University of Michigan
The HSP community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Janet Dean Fodor on August 28, 2023. To honor her memory, we will hold a pre-conference workshop the day before the main conference. Janet was an exceptionally influential psycholinguist, having made key contributions to our understanding of linguistic representations, sentence processing, and language acquisition. More relevant to the timing of this workshop is Janet’s role in establishing the CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, now known simply as the Human Sentence Processing Conference. In addition, Janet was a significant mentor to many in the field. She saw her leadership role as extending well beyond her home institution to essentially the entire psycholinguistic community, particularly early career researchers, women, and people from underrepresented backgrounds. The workshop will include presentations from many of her former mentees and main collaborators and is open to everyone attending the main conference.
All are welcome to join the remote stream via Zoom Webinar
Workshop organizers:
- Fernanda Ferreira, University of California, Davis
- John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania
Presentations given in person by:
- Mara Breen, Mount Holyoke College
- Katy Carlson, Morehead State University
- Fernanda Ferreira, University of California, Davis
- Ted Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mako Hirotani, Carleton University
- Edith Kaan, University of Florida
- Rick Lewis, University of Michigan
- Colin Phillips, University of Oxford
- Irina Sekerina, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Comments given virtually by:
- Markus Bader, Goethe University
- Eva Fernández, Mercy University
- Lyn Frazier, University of Massachusetts
- Barbara Hemforth, Université Paris Cité-CNRS
- Yuki Hirose, University of Tokyo
- Sun-Ah Jun, University of California, Los Angeles
- Janet Nicol, University of Arizona
- Tom Wasow, Stanford University
Supported by the NSF.