From lmicciulla at COMCAST.NET Fri Oct 3 23:22:35 2003 From: lmicciulla at COMCAST.NET (Linnea Micciulla) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:22:35 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 28: Schedule Announcement Message-ID: **************************************************************** 28TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT October 31, November 1 and 2, 2003 **************************************************************** Boston University is pleased to announce the schedule for the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. This schedule, along with registration materials and general and travel information, is also available on our web page at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or e-mail us at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions. **************************************************************** CONFERENCE SCHEDULE **************************************************************** FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 9:00 C. FENNELL, J. WERKER: Applying speech perception to word learning at 14 months: The effects of word knowledge and familiarity J. RISPENS, P. BEEN: Morphosyntax and literacy in children with developmental dyslexia and SLI Y. SU: Chinese children's ziji 9:30 H. STORKEL, J. YOUNG: Homonymy in the developing mental lexicon C. WILSENACH, F. WIJNEN: Perceptual sensitivity to morphosyntactic agreement in language learners: A longitudinal investigation of Dutch children at risk for developing dyslexia P. COOPMANS, M. KRUL, E. PLANTING, I. VLASVELD, A. VAN ZOELEN: Dissolving a Dutch delay in the acquisition of syntactic and logophoric reflexives 10:00 C. KIRK, A. SEIDL Production and perception of unstressed initial syllables: Implications for lexical representations S. EBBELS, H. VAN DER LELY, J. DOCKRELL: Phonological and morphosyntactic abilities in SLI children: Is there a causal relationship? S. ZUCKERMAN, I. VLASVELD: Reference to a 'guise' in child language **************************************************************** 10:30 POSTER SESSION I Attended **************************************************************** 11:00 S. HOCKEMA: Word segmentation using phonetic transition probabilities C. MARSHALL, H. VAN DER LELY: The status of derivational morphology: Evidence from children with grammatical-specific language impairment J. BARLOW: Variation in cluster production patterns by Spanish-speaking children 11:30 S. THOMPSON, E. NEWPORT: Statistical learning of syntax: The role of transitional probability C. JAKUBOWICZ, L. ROULET: Do Frenchspeaking children with SLI present a selective deficit on tense? N. PAN, W. SNYDER: Acquisition of /s/-initial clusters: A parametric approach 12:00 R. GOMEZ, J. LANY, K. CHAPMAN: Dynamically guided learning V. SHAFER, R. SCHWARTZ, K. KESSLER: ERP indices of phonological processing in children with SLI M.-H. COTÉ, J.-P. CHEVROT: The acquisition of French liaison **************************************************************** 12:45 LUNCH MEETING: BUCLD Business Meeting **************************************************************** 2:00 L. BORODITSKY, M. RAMSCAR, W. HAM: How learning a language can change the way you think: The case of temporal language in English and Indonesian S. BERK: Acquisition of verb agreement under delayed first language input J. VAN KAMPEN: The rise of the standard EPP in the acquisition of non-pro-drop languages 2:30 L. SHAPIRO: Child directed speech and the enculturation of interpersonal understanding in the United States and Japan G. MORGAN, I. BARRIÈRE, B. WOLL: The independent acquisition of verb agreement and classifiers in British Sign Language T. GORO: On the distribution of toinfinitives in early child English 3:00 E. GOLDVARG-STEINGOLD, K. SHUTTS, E. SPELKE: Young children's extensions of novel adjectives across solid objects and substances R. MAYBERRY, G. WATERS, C. CHAMBERLAIN, H. HUANG: Word recognition by deaf children who use sign language: If not phonological encoding, then what? C. SCHÜTZE: Why nonfinite be is not omitted while finite be is 4:00 M. COPPOLA, E. NEWPORT: The emergence of the grammatical category of Subject in home sign: Evidence from family-based gesture systems in Nicaragua S. WRIGHT: Innovations with un- prefixation D. LARDIERE: Knowledge of definiteness despite variable article omission in second language acquisition: The role of transfer 4:30 S. íZÇALIKAN, S. GOLDIN-MEADOW: When mothers do not lead their children by the hand J. ZAPF: Frequency in the input and children's mastery of the regular English plural J.-H. KIM, S. MONTRUL: Binding interpretations in Korean heritage speakers 5:00 A. HAMMOND: Developmental exploration of non English sequences found in created gesture systems M. RAMSCAR: When - and why - might children say ''mice eater''? E. ZWANZIGER, S. ALLEN, F. GENESEE: Investigating crosslinguistic influence in child bilinguals: Sentential subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English **************************************************************** 8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Janet Dean Fodor - Evaluating models of parameter setting **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 9:15 POSTER SESSION I Attended **************************************************************** SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 **************************************************************** 8:00 NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What's hot and how to apply **************************************************************** 9:00 S. YUAN, P. LI, H. HUANG, J. SNEDEKER: Cross-cultural differences in the input to early word learning: Word-to-world mapping in Mandarin and English M. RING, H. CLAHSEN: A-chains in children with developmental disorders T. SUZUKI, N. YOSHINAGA: Linearity or hierarchy in the child grammar: Data from quantifier floating in Japanese 9:30 R. PULVERMAN, R. GOLINKOFF: Starting out on the right path: Seven-month-olds'attention to potential verb referents in nonlinguistic events T. GRÜTER: Teasing apart L2 and SLI: Will comprehension make the difference? A. GUALMINI, S. CRAIN: Operator conditioning 10:00 S. PRUDEN, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. MAGUIRE,M. MEYER: Foundations of verb learning: Infants categorize path and manner in motion events S. CRONEL-OHAYON, C. HAMANN: The elicited production of questions in French children with SLI : Merge not Move! J. GRINSTEAD: Overgeneralization and expletive negation **************************************************************** 10:30 POSTER SESSION II Attended **************************************************************** 11:00 T. MINTZ: Morphological segmentation in 15-month-old infants D. COLES-WHITE, J. DEVILLIERS, T.ROEPER: Emergence of barriers to wh-movement, negative concord and quantification S. SOLT, Y. PUGACH, E. KLEIN, K. ADAMS, T. STOYNESHKA, T. ROSE: L2 perception and production of the English regular past: Evidence of phonological effects 11:30 R. ZANGL, A. FERNALD: Sensitivity to function morphemes in on-line sentence processing: Developmental changes from 18 to 36 months J. LIDZ, E. MCMAHON, K. SYRETT, J. VIAU, F. ANGGORO: Quantifier raising in 4-year-olds W. BAKER, P. TROFIMOVICH, M. MACK: Learning second-language intonation: Are children better than adults? **************************************************************** 12:15 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: What can language development tell us about linguistic relativitly? L. Gleitman, J. Lucy, A. Papafragou, L. Boroditsky, R. Jackendoff (moderator) **************************************************************** 2:15 B. SARNECKA, V-G. KAMENSKAYA, T. OGURA, Y. YAMANA, J.-B. YUDOVINA: Language as lens: Morphological cues guide children's attention to number R. THORNTON: Why continuity M. COLLINS: The quality of input: ESL preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading 2:45 P. LI, M. LE CORRE, R. SHUI, G. JIA: A crosslinguistic study of the role of singular-plural in number word learning C. SOARES: Computational complexity and the acquisition of the CP domain Y. UCHIKOSHI: Narrative development in bilingual kindergarteners 3:15 K. STROMSWOLD, E. SHEFFIELD: Third trimester auditory stimulation selectively enhances language development W. SNYDER, T. ROEPER: Learnability and recursion across categories I. ARTEAGOITIA, E. HOWARD: The English spelling development of Spanish/English bilingual children: Cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors 4:15 H. CLAHSEN, A. HAHNE, J. MUELLER: Second language learners' processing of inflected words: Behavioral and ERP evidence for storage and decomposition H. SONG, C. FISHER: The development of preschoolers' sensitivity to discourse cues in on-line pronoun interpretation J. STITES, C. KIRK, K. DEMUTH: Markedness vs. frequency effects in coda acquisition 4:45 K. KESSLER, G. MARTOHARDJONO, V. SHAFER: ERP correlates of age and proficiency effects on L2 processing of syntactic and inflectional information B. SKARABELA, S. ALLEN: The context of non-affixal arguments in child Inuktitut: The role of joint attention M. KEHOE, G. HILAIRE: The structure of branching onsets and rising diphthongs: Evidence from acquisition **************************************************************** 5:30 PLENARY ADDRESS: Mabel Rice - Language growth of children with SLI and unaffected children: Timing mechanisms and linguistic distinctions **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 6:45 POSTER SESSION II Attended **************************************************************** SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 9:00 A. KOVACS: Implications of early bilingualism in theory of mind development M. NAKAJIMA, T. SANO: Early acquisition of nominative-genitive conversion in Japanese S. OUTCALT, L. DEKYDTSPOTTER: The resolution of scope ambiguity in English-French sentence interpretation 9:30 T. MATSUI, Y. MURAKAMI, T. YAMAMOTO, P. MCCAGG: Japanese preschoolers' early understanding of (un)certainty: A cultural perspective on the role of language in development of theory of mind B. ZURER PEARSON: The role of optional vs. obligatory cues in the acquisition of passive in two dialects of English and in language impairment T. IONIN, H. KO, K. WEXLER: A definite pattern of L2-English article use: The role of specificity 10:00 P. SCHULZ, A. MEISSNER: Understanding theory of mind and complementation: The linguistic determinism hypothesis revisited B. NARASIMHAN: Agent case-marking in Hindi child language Y. MIYAMOTO, K. OKADA: Topicalization and wh-movement in the grammar of Japanese EFL learners 11:00 E. THIESSEN, J. SAFFRAN: Infants' acquisition of stress-based word segmentation strategies P. GORDON: The origins of argument structure in infant event representations E. GAVRUSEVA: On the asymmetry in the development of copula and auxiliary be in child L2 English 11:30 S. CURTIN, J. WERKER: Patterns of new word-object associations J. LEE, J. NELSON, L. NAIGLES: Syntactic bootstrapping: A viable strategy for Mandarin verb learners S. UNSWORTH: Child L1, child L2 and adult L2 acquisition: Differences and similarities 12:00 K. CHAMBERS, K. ONISHI, C. FISHER: Going beyond the input: Extending newly learned phonotactic regularities A. BUNGER, J. LIDZ: Syntactic bootstrapping and the internal structure of causative events S. VAN BOXTEL, T. BONGAERTS, P.-A. COPPEN: The critical period hypothesis for syntax in SLA and the role of the first language 12:30 M. CHRISTIANSEN, F. REALI, P. MONAGHAN, N. CHATER: Language acquisition through multiple-cue integration: Differential contributions of phonological and distributional cues K. CASSIDY, A. PAPAFRAGOU, L. GLEITMAN: Observational and syntactic support for the acquisition of mental verbs H. GOAD, L. WHITE: (Non)native-like ultimate attainment: The influence of L1 prosodic structure on L2 morphology **************************************************************** POSTER SESSION I Friday, October 31 Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A M. CABRERA, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Top-down vs. bottom-up transfer: Overgeneralized causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish D. CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition in word initial vs. medial position C. DYE, C. FOLEY, M. BLUME, B. LUST Syntax first: Mismatches between morphology and syntax in first language acquisition elucidate linguistic theory A. FUSE, L. MCDONOUGH Task pragmatics and the lexicon: A re-examination of the role of language in cognition J. GIERUT, H. STORKEL, M. MORRISETTE Children's representations: What they know and how they know it J. GILKERSON Perception of natural and unnatural phonemic categories: Evidence for innate knowledge M. HARA Optionality as 'demarking' in an advanced L2-state M.-H. IMMORDINO-YANG A tale of two cases: Affective prosody after right and left hemispherectomy G. JIA, Y. SHIRAI The acquisition of English tense-aspect morphology by native Mandarin speakers: A longitudinal study E. KLEIN, I. STOYNESHKA, K. ADAMS Y. PUGACH, S. SOLT The interaction of lexical aspect and phonological salience on regular past tense affixation in L2 English M. MEYER, S. LEONARD, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. IMAI, E. HARYU Making a convincing argument: A crosslinguistic comparison of noun and verb learning in Japanese and English J. MUSOLINO, A. GUALMINI The scope of partitivity in child language T. NICOL, B. LANDAU, P. RESNIK Discovering the invisible: Children's acquisition of the implicit object construction K. PENCE, M. WINN More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in parents' speech to infants F. REALI, M. CHRISTIANSEN Reappraising poverty of stimulus argument: A corpus analysis approach P. ROYLE, E. THORDARDOTTIR The acquisition of the French inflection: The influence of age, verb vocabulary size, and MLU C. SCHMITT, C. HOLTHEUER, K. MILLER Acquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: Learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse N. SETHURAMAN Influence of parental input on learning argument structure constructions L. SINGH, K. WHITE The specificity of early lexical representations: Differential encoding of affect, amplitude, and absolute pitch J. SNEDEKER, J. GEREN, I. MARTIN I'd do it all again: Early language acquisition in internationally-adopted children G. TESAN To be or not to be - an affix: Inflectional development in child language K. THORPE, A. FERNALD How 2-year-olds process prenominal adjectives in continuous speech **************************************************************** POSTER SESSION II Saturday, November 1 Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to 7:30 PM H. DEACON What young children know about more: 18- to 20-month-old infants' perception of the plural morpheme S. EISENBEISS, A. MATSUO External and internal possession: A comparative study of German and Japanese child language M. ENDO Developmental issues on the interpretation of focus particles by Japanese children J. FRANCK , S. CRONEL-OHAYON, L. CHILLIER, U. FRAUENFELDER, L. RIZZI Normal and pathological development of subject-verb agreement in French R. HATTORI Why do children say ''did you went''?: The role of do-support R. HERMAN, N. GROVE, G. MORGAN, H. SUTHERLAND, B. WOLL The development and use of a narrative skills test in British Sign Language T. HÜTTNER, H. DRENHAUS, R. VAN DE VIJVER, J. WEISSENBORN The acquisition of the German focus particle auch/too: Comprehension does not always precede production E. KRIKHAAR Patterns in comprehension of verb morphology in Dutch: Evidence from syntactic bootstrapping experiments K. MATSUOKA Addressing the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: The acquisition of the Japanese additive particle mo K. MURASUGI, T. HASHIMOTO, S. KATO On the acquisition of causatives in Japanese I. MUTSUMI, E. HARYU, H. OKADA The role of argument structure and object familiarity in Japanese children's verb learning E. OH, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the interlanguage grammar? O. OLBISHEVSKA Against the Aspect First Hypothesis L. PALTIEL-GEDALYOVICH, J. SCHAEFFER A semantic-pragmatic-cognitive interface in first language acquisition: Evidence from Hebrew coordination. A. PEREZ-LEROUX, A. MUNN, C. SCHMITT, M. DEIRISH Learning definite determiners: Genericity and definiteness in English and Spanish A. REVITHIADOU, M. TZAKOSTA Alternative grammars in acquisition: Markedness- vs. faithfulness-oriented learning E. RUIGENDIJK, S. BAAUW, S. AVRUTIN, N. VASIC The production of SE- and SELF-anaphors in Dutch child language M. SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. HíHLE The acquisition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Implications for cross-linguistic language processing K. SZENDROI Acquisition evidence for a unified view of focal ambiguity and stress J. TRAN, K. DEEN Aspect marking and modality in child Vietnamese K. YAMAKOSHI Children's understanding of the universal quantifier WH+mo in Japanese N. YUSA, K. FUKUCHI Japanese learners of English are easy to confuse l and r: Experiencer-raising in second language acquisition **************************************************************** ALTERNATE PAPERS In the event of a cancellation in the conference program, a substitute selection will be made from the following alternate papers: D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A D. CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition in word initial vs. medial position K. DEEN Object agreement and specificity in Nairobi Swahili S. EISENBEISS, A. MATSUO External and internal possession: A comparative study of German and Japanese child language M. ENDO Developmental issues on the interpretation of focus particles by Japanese children M. ESPAçOL-ECHEVARRÍA, P. PRÉVOST The acquisition of morphology does not trigger the acquisition of underlying syntactic properties in SLA: Evidence from the L2 acquisition of number specification on Spanish quantifiers E. OH, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the interlanguage grammar? M. SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. HíHLE The acquisition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Implications for cross-linguistic language processing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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California State University, San Bernardino is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diversified workforce. From ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu Tue Oct 14 03:38:01 2003 From: ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu (Gregory Ward) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:38:01 -0500 Subject: Important Information about changes to the Funknet In-Reply-To: from "Funknet List Admin" at Oct 13, 2003 06:34:15 PM Message-ID: please delete my subscription to ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu; i will use the new web interface. thanks, gregory ward > > Dear Funknet Subscribers, > > Rice University has recently upgraded to a new system for managing e-mail > distribution lists. As of today, L-Soft Listserv has been decommissioned, > and replaced by the Mailman interface. Funknet, and all other > distribution lists hosted at Rice, are now managed via Mailman. > > You may have already noticed that the Funknet messages distributed today > contain the text [FUNKNET] at the beginning of the 'subject' line, and > that the list address has changed slightly. The address to send mail to > the list is now funknet at mailman.rice.edu However, all mail sent to the > old address will continue to be forwarded to the list too. > > One of the advantages of Mailman is that subscribers can now interact with > the list through a user-friendly web interface, rather than by sending > e-mail commands to the listserv. The URL for all things Funknet-related > is: > http://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet > Please bookmark this page! On this page you can subscribe and unsubscribe > from the list, view several years of archived Funknet postings, and make > changes to your subscription options such as receiving mail in a daily > digest form rather than individual postings. > > If you don't like web interfaces, there still is an email-based interface > available to Funknet subscribers. But be aware that the commands are > different from the way things used to work in Listserv. To get a list of > commands for interacting with Mailman, send an e-mail with the single word > 'help' in the subject line or message body to > funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu > > Over the next several days, we will be updating links to the new Funknet > information page. Please let me know if you come across outdated links to > Funknet so we can fix them. > > As always, if you have a question about the list, or trouble with Mailman > or your subscription options, you can contact a human (but don't ask me to > prove that I really am one!) at: > funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu > > --Robert Englebretson, Funknet List Administration > From jrubba at calpoly.edu Tue Oct 14 22:28:41 2003 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:28:41 -0700 Subject: another query to pass on Message-ID: Here's a fellow who is looking for some corpus evidence. Please reply directly to him. Thanks! --Jo Message 1: Q: THAT-clause subjects Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:48:45 +0200 From: J-C Khalifa Subject: Q: THAT-clause subjects I was just wondering whether there has been any work at all on the acceptability of clausal subjects like, say : THAT Arnold was elected which are perfectly acceptable with adjectival predicates like : _________was surprising or verbal predicates like: ___________surprised everyone. with bare copulas followed by another THAT-clause. In other words, are there any contexts where THAT ARNOLD WAS ELECTED WAS THAT VOTERS WERE BLIND might be acceptable? They are (are they?) with verbs like MEAN (That Arnold was elected means that voters were blind) Does anyone know of any such sentences in corpora, and/or any relevant work into that question? I'll gladly post a summary if feedback proves interesting. Thanks in advance, Jean-Charles Khalifa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-2596 • E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu • Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Salinas17 at aol.com Wed Oct 15 03:04:36 2003 From: Salinas17 at aol.com (Salinas17 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:04:36 EDT Subject: [Not a Simple Past Perfect Question] Message-ID: In a message dated 10/13/03 3:37:15 PM, jrubba at calpoly.edu writes: <> Conventionally, the difference is eaplained as a matter of emphasis or precision. See, e.g., http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/pastperfect01.html <> Temporal conjunctions serve something like the same function as the past perfect, but not exactly. Consider: - Before there was earth, there was sky. - Before there was earth, there had been sky. (The first places emphasis on sky. The second emphasizes the differences in verb tense - it matters that sky preceded earth.) Compare: - There was earth. There had been sky. (Jimmy left. He had eaten three eggs.) - There was earth. There was sky. (Jimmy left. He ate three eggs.) (Without the conjunction, the first seems to strongly imply cause or replacement, doesn't it? The second -- without conjunction -- conveys possibly an altogether different temporal order.) Finally: - Before there had been earth, there had been sky. What's wrong with this sentence? Is there no longer sky or earth? I don't think that bothers us. We automatically presume that additional context will clarify the tenses. (e.g., "...and then people were created.") And perhaps that is what is essential to all of these examples. They don't only imply rules. They also imply an explanatory context -- which we often supply ourselves, and which are crucial to making sense out of out-of-context phrases like these. SLong From lamb at rice.edu Thu Oct 16 15:20:56 2003 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:20:56 -0500 Subject: Forthcoming LACUS conference Message-ID: (Apologies if you get this notice also from another source) The Thirty-First LACUS Forum will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), 27 - 31 July 2004. Conference theme: "Interconnections" (covering interfaces within language and also connections between language and other areas of human life and cognition) A full description of the conference, including the "Call for papers" will be placed on the LACUS website (www.lacus.org) by about the beginning of November. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 January 2004. For further information, please contact: David Bennett db at soas.ac.uk (Dept. of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London Chair, LACUS Conference Committee) From bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Thu Oct 16 21:23:52 2003 From: bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:23:52 -0700 Subject: BLS 30 -- Call for Papers Message-ID: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Thirtieth Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *GENERAL SESSION* The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology. *Invited Speakers* Alice Harris, SUNY Stony Brook Bruce Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles Elizabeth Hume, Ohio State University Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder & Stanford University *PARASESSION* "Conceptual Structure and Cognition in Grammatical Theory" The Parasession invites submissions addressing the following question: to what extent and in what ways can findings from cognitive science and psychology be integrated into formalisms for linguistic analysis? Papers representing all views and approaches are sought. Those that address both experimental data and formal theoretical models are particularly welcomed. *Invited Speakers* Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3rd speaker TBA 4th speaker TBA *SPECIAL SESSION* -- "Morphology of Native American Languages" The Special Session covers the morphology of native languages of the Americas. Papers in all areas of morphological inquiry, from all approaches, are welcomed. *Invited Speakers* Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin, Madison 3rd speaker TBA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*** Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (not exceeding 12 pages) by May 15, 2004. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach and conclusions. Abstracts may be at most four hundred words not including data and references. The reverse side of the single page may be used for data and references only. 10 copies of an anonymous, one-page (8.5"x11") abstract should be sent, along with a 3"x5" card listing: (1) paper title (2) session (General/Para/Special) (3) name(s) of author(s) (4) affiliation(s) of author(s) (5) address where notification of acceptance should be mailed (Dec 2003) (6) contact phone number for each author (7) email address for each author ***for General Session submissions only*** (8a) subfield (syntax, phonology, etc.) ***for Para-/Special Session submissions only*** (8b) indication of whether you wish to have your abstract considered for the General Session if the organizers determine that your paper will not fit the other sessions *SEND ABSTRACTS TO* BLS 30 Abstracts Committee University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by 5:00 p.m., December 3, 2003. 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Received in our office by February 1, 2004: Students $20 Non-students $40 Received after February 1, 2004: Students $25 Non-students $55 *SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO* BLS 30 Registration University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 ***BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested through bls at socrates.berkeley.edu before 12/1/03*** We may be contacted by e-mail: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu. Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808 website: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ From vanvalin at buffalo.edu Mon Oct 20 19:13:58 2003 From: vanvalin at buffalo.edu (Robert VanValin) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:13:58 -0400 Subject: 2004 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference Message-ID: 2004 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference July 21-25, 2004 Dublin, Ireland Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Linguistic theory and practice: description, implementation and processing Themes: The lexicon and lexical decomposition in RRG. The RRG approach to morphology RRG and neurocognitive models of language processing Computational approaches to RRG Celtic Linguistics Lectures and workshops will be held on July 21-23. The conference will be July 24-25. The call for papers (submission deadline: March 15, 2004) and detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website. Conference website: http://www.itb.ie/events/rrg2004.html Conference e-mail address: rrg2004 at itb.ie From bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Fri Oct 24 08:51:44 2003 From: bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:51:44 -0700 Subject: BLS 30 -- updated Call for Papers Message-ID: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 30th Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. GENERAL SESSION The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. 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The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(8) above. We cannot accept faxed abstracts. Send electronic submissions to . PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION Presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (up to 12 pages) by May 15, 2004. REGISTRATION INFORMATION All attendees, including presenters, must register for the conference. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Received in our office by February 1, 2004: Students $20 Non-students $40 On-site, or received after February 1, 2004: Students $25 Non-students $55 SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO BLS 30 Registration 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested before Dec. 1, 2003. We may be contacted: Email: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808 Website: www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ Updates will be posted to our website. The conference schedule will be posted in January. From lmicciulla at comcast.net Mon Oct 27 12:37:05 2003 From: lmicciulla at comcast.net (Linnea Micciulla) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:37:05 -0500 Subject: Reminder: BUCLD 28 starts 10/31 Message-ID: **************************************************************** 28TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT October 31, November 1 and 2, 2003 **************************************************************** Invited Speakers: Keynote speaker: Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York Plenary speaker: Mabel Rice, University of Kansas Lunch Symposium: "What can language development tell us about linguistic relativity?" Lunch Symposium Speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania John Lucy, University of Chicago Anna Papafragou, University of Pennsylvania Lera Boroditsky, MIT Other Highlights: *An exciting program of 87 papers and 42 posters *BUCLD Business Meeting *NSF/NIH Funding Symposium and Consultation Hours *Book exhibits from over 15 publishers on display Friday through Sunday *Nursing room available throughout the weekend for nursing mothers *Limited number of bag lunches available for purchase on Friday and Saturday Location: The Conference will be held in the George Sherman Union located at 775 Commonwealth Avenue. The schedule, along with registration and general information, is also available on our web page at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or e-mail us at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions. From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 10:54:55 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:54:55 +0300 Subject: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the first call for papers for the 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference. The conference will be held in October 2004 in the city of Kazan. All the best Andrej Kibrik From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 11:51:52 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:51:52 +0300 Subject: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the first call for papers for the 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference. The conference will be held in October 2004 in the city of Kazan. All the best Andrej Kibrik From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 15:49:44 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:49:44 +0300 Subject: Fw: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please see below the call for papers for the 1st Russian conference on Cognitive Science. Sorry about the previous unsuccessful attempts to post this information - I have not posted anything to this list for a while. Andrej Kibrik Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia ========================================================================== FIRST RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE October 9-12, 2004, Kazan First Call for Papers The goal of the conference is to create a joint forum for representatives from various disciplines exploring cognition and its evolution, intellect, thinking, perception, consciousness, knowledge representation and acquisition, language as a means of cognition and communication, brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neurophysiologists, specialists in artificial intelligence and neuroinformatics, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, as well as other scientists interested in interdisciplinary issues in cognitive studies, are invited to take part in the conference. The conference will be held in one of the major university cities of Russia, Kazan. Among the invited speakers will be: Konstantin V. Anokhin (Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, neurobiology) Wallace Chafe (University of California at Santa Barbara, linguistics) Sandro V. Kodzasov (Moscow State University, linguistics) Michael Posner (University of Oregon, Eugene, neuropsychology) Helge Ritter (University of Bielefeld, neuroinformatics and robotics) Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, psychology, anthropology) The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English. Those willing to participate in the conference are requested to send a short e-mail message, in Russian or in English, no later than January 15, 2004. The program committee needs these messages in order to have a preliminary estimate of the number and range of paper proposals. Deadline for submitting paper proposals: March 1, 2004. Decisions on acceptance of paper proposals will be made by June 1, 2004 For details, see conference web site: www.ksu.ru/cogsci04. Conference e-mail address: cogsci04 at s2s.msu.ru From lmicciulla at COMCAST.NET Fri Oct 3 23:22:35 2003 From: lmicciulla at COMCAST.NET (Linnea Micciulla) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:22:35 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 28: Schedule Announcement Message-ID: **************************************************************** 28TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT October 31, November 1 and 2, 2003 **************************************************************** Boston University is pleased to announce the schedule for the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. This schedule, along with registration materials and general and travel information, is also available on our web page at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or e-mail us at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions. **************************************************************** CONFERENCE SCHEDULE **************************************************************** FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 9:00 C. FENNELL, J. WERKER: Applying speech perception to word learning at 14 months: The effects of word knowledge and familiarity J. RISPENS, P. BEEN: Morphosyntax and literacy in children with developmental dyslexia and SLI Y. SU: Chinese children's ziji 9:30 H. STORKEL, J. YOUNG: Homonymy in the developing mental lexicon C. WILSENACH, F. WIJNEN: Perceptual sensitivity to morphosyntactic agreement in language learners: A longitudinal investigation of Dutch children at risk for developing dyslexia P. COOPMANS, M. KRUL, E. PLANTING, I. VLASVELD, A. VAN ZOELEN: Dissolving a Dutch delay in the acquisition of syntactic and logophoric reflexives 10:00 C. KIRK, A. SEIDL Production and perception of unstressed initial syllables: Implications for lexical representations S. EBBELS, H. VAN DER LELY, J. DOCKRELL: Phonological and morphosyntactic abilities in SLI children: Is there a causal relationship? S. ZUCKERMAN, I. VLASVELD: Reference to a 'guise' in child language **************************************************************** 10:30 POSTER SESSION I Attended **************************************************************** 11:00 S. HOCKEMA: Word segmentation using phonetic transition probabilities C. MARSHALL, H. VAN DER LELY: The status of derivational morphology: Evidence from children with grammatical-specific language impairment J. BARLOW: Variation in cluster production patterns by Spanish-speaking children 11:30 S. THOMPSON, E. NEWPORT: Statistical learning of syntax: The role of transitional probability C. JAKUBOWICZ, L. ROULET: Do Frenchspeaking children with SLI present a selective deficit on tense? N. PAN, W. SNYDER: Acquisition of /s/-initial clusters: A parametric approach 12:00 R. GOMEZ, J. LANY, K. CHAPMAN: Dynamically guided learning V. SHAFER, R. SCHWARTZ, K. KESSLER: ERP indices of phonological processing in children with SLI M.-H. COT?, J.-P. CHEVROT: The acquisition of French liaison **************************************************************** 12:45 LUNCH MEETING: BUCLD Business Meeting **************************************************************** 2:00 L. BORODITSKY, M. RAMSCAR, W. HAM: How learning a language can change the way you think: The case of temporal language in English and Indonesian S. BERK: Acquisition of verb agreement under delayed first language input J. VAN KAMPEN: The rise of the standard EPP in the acquisition of non-pro-drop languages 2:30 L. SHAPIRO: Child directed speech and the enculturation of interpersonal understanding in the United States and Japan G. MORGAN, I. BARRI?RE, B. WOLL: The independent acquisition of verb agreement and classifiers in British Sign Language T. GORO: On the distribution of toinfinitives in early child English 3:00 E. GOLDVARG-STEINGOLD, K. SHUTTS, E. SPELKE: Young children's extensions of novel adjectives across solid objects and substances R. MAYBERRY, G. WATERS, C. CHAMBERLAIN, H. HUANG: Word recognition by deaf children who use sign language: If not phonological encoding, then what? C. SCH?TZE: Why nonfinite be is not omitted while finite be is 4:00 M. COPPOLA, E. NEWPORT: The emergence of the grammatical category of Subject in home sign: Evidence from family-based gesture systems in Nicaragua S. WRIGHT: Innovations with un- prefixation D. LARDIERE: Knowledge of definiteness despite variable article omission in second language acquisition: The role of transfer 4:30 S. ?Z?ALIKAN, S. GOLDIN-MEADOW: When mothers do not lead their children by the hand J. ZAPF: Frequency in the input and children's mastery of the regular English plural J.-H. KIM, S. MONTRUL: Binding interpretations in Korean heritage speakers 5:00 A. HAMMOND: Developmental exploration of non English sequences found in created gesture systems M. RAMSCAR: When - and why - might children say ''mice eater''? E. ZWANZIGER, S. ALLEN, F. GENESEE: Investigating crosslinguistic influence in child bilinguals: Sentential subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English **************************************************************** 8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Janet Dean Fodor - Evaluating models of parameter setting **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 9:15 POSTER SESSION I Attended **************************************************************** SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 **************************************************************** 8:00 NSF/NIH FUNDING SYMPOSIUM: What's hot and how to apply **************************************************************** 9:00 S. YUAN, P. LI, H. HUANG, J. SNEDEKER: Cross-cultural differences in the input to early word learning: Word-to-world mapping in Mandarin and English M. RING, H. CLAHSEN: A-chains in children with developmental disorders T. SUZUKI, N. YOSHINAGA: Linearity or hierarchy in the child grammar: Data from quantifier floating in Japanese 9:30 R. PULVERMAN, R. GOLINKOFF: Starting out on the right path: Seven-month-olds'attention to potential verb referents in nonlinguistic events T. GR?TER: Teasing apart L2 and SLI: Will comprehension make the difference? A. GUALMINI, S. CRAIN: Operator conditioning 10:00 S. PRUDEN, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. MAGUIRE,M. MEYER: Foundations of verb learning: Infants categorize path and manner in motion events S. CRONEL-OHAYON, C. HAMANN: The elicited production of questions in French children with SLI : Merge not Move! J. GRINSTEAD: Overgeneralization and expletive negation **************************************************************** 10:30 POSTER SESSION II Attended **************************************************************** 11:00 T. MINTZ: Morphological segmentation in 15-month-old infants D. COLES-WHITE, J. DEVILLIERS, T.ROEPER: Emergence of barriers to wh-movement, negative concord and quantification S. SOLT, Y. PUGACH, E. KLEIN, K. ADAMS, T. STOYNESHKA, T. ROSE: L2 perception and production of the English regular past: Evidence of phonological effects 11:30 R. ZANGL, A. FERNALD: Sensitivity to function morphemes in on-line sentence processing: Developmental changes from 18 to 36 months J. LIDZ, E. MCMAHON, K. SYRETT, J. VIAU, F. ANGGORO: Quantifier raising in 4-year-olds W. BAKER, P. TROFIMOVICH, M. MACK: Learning second-language intonation: Are children better than adults? **************************************************************** 12:15 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: What can language development tell us about linguistic relativitly? L. Gleitman, J. Lucy, A. Papafragou, L. Boroditsky, R. Jackendoff (moderator) **************************************************************** 2:15 B. SARNECKA, V-G. KAMENSKAYA, T. OGURA, Y. YAMANA, J.-B. YUDOVINA: Language as lens: Morphological cues guide children's attention to number R. THORNTON: Why continuity M. COLLINS: The quality of input: ESL preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading 2:45 P. LI, M. LE CORRE, R. SHUI, G. JIA: A crosslinguistic study of the role of singular-plural in number word learning C. SOARES: Computational complexity and the acquisition of the CP domain Y. UCHIKOSHI: Narrative development in bilingual kindergarteners 3:15 K. STROMSWOLD, E. SHEFFIELD: Third trimester auditory stimulation selectively enhances language development W. SNYDER, T. ROEPER: Learnability and recursion across categories I. ARTEAGOITIA, E. HOWARD: The English spelling development of Spanish/English bilingual children: Cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors 4:15 H. CLAHSEN, A. HAHNE, J. MUELLER: Second language learners' processing of inflected words: Behavioral and ERP evidence for storage and decomposition H. SONG, C. FISHER: The development of preschoolers' sensitivity to discourse cues in on-line pronoun interpretation J. STITES, C. KIRK, K. DEMUTH: Markedness vs. frequency effects in coda acquisition 4:45 K. KESSLER, G. MARTOHARDJONO, V. SHAFER: ERP correlates of age and proficiency effects on L2 processing of syntactic and inflectional information B. SKARABELA, S. ALLEN: The context of non-affixal arguments in child Inuktitut: The role of joint attention M. KEHOE, G. HILAIRE: The structure of branching onsets and rising diphthongs: Evidence from acquisition **************************************************************** 5:30 PLENARY ADDRESS: Mabel Rice - Language growth of children with SLI and unaffected children: Timing mechanisms and linguistic distinctions **************************************************************** **************************************************************** 6:45 POSTER SESSION II Attended **************************************************************** SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 9:00 A. KOVACS: Implications of early bilingualism in theory of mind development M. NAKAJIMA, T. SANO: Early acquisition of nominative-genitive conversion in Japanese S. OUTCALT, L. DEKYDTSPOTTER: The resolution of scope ambiguity in English-French sentence interpretation 9:30 T. MATSUI, Y. MURAKAMI, T. YAMAMOTO, P. MCCAGG: Japanese preschoolers' early understanding of (un)certainty: A cultural perspective on the role of language in development of theory of mind B. ZURER PEARSON: The role of optional vs. obligatory cues in the acquisition of passive in two dialects of English and in language impairment T. IONIN, H. KO, K. WEXLER: A definite pattern of L2-English article use: The role of specificity 10:00 P. SCHULZ, A. MEISSNER: Understanding theory of mind and complementation: The linguistic determinism hypothesis revisited B. NARASIMHAN: Agent case-marking in Hindi child language Y. MIYAMOTO, K. OKADA: Topicalization and wh-movement in the grammar of Japanese EFL learners 11:00 E. THIESSEN, J. SAFFRAN: Infants' acquisition of stress-based word segmentation strategies P. GORDON: The origins of argument structure in infant event representations E. GAVRUSEVA: On the asymmetry in the development of copula and auxiliary be in child L2 English 11:30 S. CURTIN, J. WERKER: Patterns of new word-object associations J. LEE, J. NELSON, L. NAIGLES: Syntactic bootstrapping: A viable strategy for Mandarin verb learners S. UNSWORTH: Child L1, child L2 and adult L2 acquisition: Differences and similarities 12:00 K. CHAMBERS, K. ONISHI, C. FISHER: Going beyond the input: Extending newly learned phonotactic regularities A. BUNGER, J. LIDZ: Syntactic bootstrapping and the internal structure of causative events S. VAN BOXTEL, T. BONGAERTS, P.-A. COPPEN: The critical period hypothesis for syntax in SLA and the role of the first language 12:30 M. CHRISTIANSEN, F. REALI, P. MONAGHAN, N. CHATER: Language acquisition through multiple-cue integration: Differential contributions of phonological and distributional cues K. CASSIDY, A. PAPAFRAGOU, L. GLEITMAN: Observational and syntactic support for the acquisition of mental verbs H. GOAD, L. WHITE: (Non)native-like ultimate attainment: The influence of L1 prosodic structure on L2 morphology **************************************************************** POSTER SESSION I Friday, October 31 Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A M. CABRERA, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Top-down vs. bottom-up transfer: Overgeneralized causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish D. CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition in word initial vs. medial position C. DYE, C. FOLEY, M. BLUME, B. LUST Syntax first: Mismatches between morphology and syntax in first language acquisition elucidate linguistic theory A. FUSE, L. MCDONOUGH Task pragmatics and the lexicon: A re-examination of the role of language in cognition J. GIERUT, H. STORKEL, M. MORRISETTE Children's representations: What they know and how they know it J. GILKERSON Perception of natural and unnatural phonemic categories: Evidence for innate knowledge M. HARA Optionality as 'demarking' in an advanced L2-state M.-H. IMMORDINO-YANG A tale of two cases: Affective prosody after right and left hemispherectomy G. JIA, Y. SHIRAI The acquisition of English tense-aspect morphology by native Mandarin speakers: A longitudinal study E. KLEIN, I. STOYNESHKA, K. ADAMS Y. PUGACH, S. SOLT The interaction of lexical aspect and phonological salience on regular past tense affixation in L2 English M. MEYER, S. LEONARD, K. HIRSH-PASEK, M. IMAI, E. HARYU Making a convincing argument: A crosslinguistic comparison of noun and verb learning in Japanese and English J. MUSOLINO, A. GUALMINI The scope of partitivity in child language T. NICOL, B. LANDAU, P. RESNIK Discovering the invisible: Children's acquisition of the implicit object construction K. PENCE, M. WINN More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in parents' speech to infants F. REALI, M. CHRISTIANSEN Reappraising poverty of stimulus argument: A corpus analysis approach P. ROYLE, E. THORDARDOTTIR The acquisition of the French inflection: The influence of age, verb vocabulary size, and MLU C. SCHMITT, C. HOLTHEUER, K. MILLER Acquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: Learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse N. SETHURAMAN Influence of parental input on learning argument structure constructions L. SINGH, K. WHITE The specificity of early lexical representations: Differential encoding of affect, amplitude, and absolute pitch J. SNEDEKER, J. GEREN, I. MARTIN I'd do it all again: Early language acquisition in internationally-adopted children G. TESAN To be or not to be - an affix: Inflectional development in child language K. THORPE, A. FERNALD How 2-year-olds process prenominal adjectives in continuous speech **************************************************************** POSTER SESSION II Saturday, November 1 Posters will be on display from 9:00 AM to 7:30 PM H. DEACON What young children know about more: 18- to 20-month-old infants' perception of the plural morpheme S. EISENBEISS, A. MATSUO External and internal possession: A comparative study of German and Japanese child language M. ENDO Developmental issues on the interpretation of focus particles by Japanese children J. FRANCK , S. CRONEL-OHAYON, L. CHILLIER, U. FRAUENFELDER, L. RIZZI Normal and pathological development of subject-verb agreement in French R. HATTORI Why do children say ''did you went''?: The role of do-support R. HERMAN, N. GROVE, G. MORGAN, H. SUTHERLAND, B. WOLL The development and use of a narrative skills test in British Sign Language T. H?TTNER, H. DRENHAUS, R. VAN DE VIJVER, J. WEISSENBORN The acquisition of the German focus particle auch/too: Comprehension does not always precede production E. KRIKHAAR Patterns in comprehension of verb morphology in Dutch: Evidence from syntactic bootstrapping experiments K. MATSUOKA Addressing the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: The acquisition of the Japanese additive particle mo K. MURASUGI, T. HASHIMOTO, S. KATO On the acquisition of causatives in Japanese I. MUTSUMI, E. HARYU, H. OKADA The role of argument structure and object familiarity in Japanese children's verb learning E. OH, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the interlanguage grammar? O. OLBISHEVSKA Against the Aspect First Hypothesis L. PALTIEL-GEDALYOVICH, J. SCHAEFFER A semantic-pragmatic-cognitive interface in first language acquisition: Evidence from Hebrew coordination. A. PEREZ-LEROUX, A. MUNN, C. SCHMITT, M. DEIRISH Learning definite determiners: Genericity and definiteness in English and Spanish A. REVITHIADOU, M. TZAKOSTA Alternative grammars in acquisition: Markedness- vs. faithfulness-oriented learning E. RUIGENDIJK, S. BAAUW, S. AVRUTIN, N. VASIC The production of SE- and SELF-anaphors in Dutch child language M. SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. H?HLE The acquisition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Implications for cross-linguistic language processing K. SZENDROI Acquisition evidence for a unified view of focal ambiguity and stress J. TRAN, K. DEEN Aspect marking and modality in child Vietnamese K. YAMAKOSHI Children's understanding of the universal quantifier WH+mo in Japanese N. YUSA, K. FUKUCHI Japanese learners of English are easy to confuse l and r: Experiencer-raising in second language acquisition **************************************************************** ALTERNATE PAPERS In the event of a cancellation in the conference program, a substitute selection will be made from the following alternate papers: D. BIRDSONG Comprehensive nativelikeness in late L2A D. CHAMBLESS Asymmetries in cluster acquisition in word initial vs. medial position K. DEEN Object agreement and specificity in Nairobi Swahili S. EISENBEISS, A. MATSUO External and internal possession: A comparative study of German and Japanese child language M. ENDO Developmental issues on the interpretation of focus particles by Japanese children M. ESPA?OL-ECHEVARR?A, P. PR?VOST The acquisition of morphology does not trigger the acquisition of underlying syntactic properties in SLA: Evidence from the L2 acquisition of number specification on Spanish quantifiers E. OH, M.-L. ZUBIZARRETA Do restricted L1 structures emerge in the interlanguage grammar? M. SCHMITZ, L. SANTELMANN, B. H?HLE The acquisition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Implications for cross-linguistic language processing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Tue Oct 7 15:05:34 2003 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:05:34 +0300 Subject: Confs: Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery In-Reply-To: Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] Dear All, The programme and abstracts of the symposium "Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery", organized by the Linguistic Association of Finland (Helsinki November 14-15, 2003), are now available at . Best Wishes, Matti Miestamo From funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu Mon Oct 13 23:34:15 2003 From: funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu (Funknet List Admin) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:34:15 -0500 Subject: Important Information about changes to the Funknet interface Message-ID: Dear Funknet Subscribers, Rice University has recently upgraded to a new system for managing e-mail distribution lists. As of today, L-Soft Listserv has been decommissioned, and replaced by the Mailman interface. 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California State University, San Bernardino is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diversified workforce. From ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu Tue Oct 14 03:38:01 2003 From: ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu (Gregory Ward) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:38:01 -0500 Subject: Important Information about changes to the Funknet In-Reply-To: from "Funknet List Admin" at Oct 13, 2003 06:34:15 PM Message-ID: please delete my subscription to ward at babel.ling.northwestern.edu; i will use the new web interface. thanks, gregory ward > > Dear Funknet Subscribers, > > Rice University has recently upgraded to a new system for managing e-mail > distribution lists. As of today, L-Soft Listserv has been decommissioned, > and replaced by the Mailman interface. Funknet, and all other > distribution lists hosted at Rice, are now managed via Mailman. > > You may have already noticed that the Funknet messages distributed today > contain the text [FUNKNET] at the beginning of the 'subject' line, and > that the list address has changed slightly. The address to send mail to > the list is now funknet at mailman.rice.edu However, all mail sent to the > old address will continue to be forwarded to the list too. > > One of the advantages of Mailman is that subscribers can now interact with > the list through a user-friendly web interface, rather than by sending > e-mail commands to the listserv. The URL for all things Funknet-related > is: > http://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet > Please bookmark this page! On this page you can subscribe and unsubscribe > from the list, view several years of archived Funknet postings, and make > changes to your subscription options such as receiving mail in a daily > digest form rather than individual postings. > > If you don't like web interfaces, there still is an email-based interface > available to Funknet subscribers. But be aware that the commands are > different from the way things used to work in Listserv. To get a list of > commands for interacting with Mailman, send an e-mail with the single word > 'help' in the subject line or message body to > funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu > > Over the next several days, we will be updating links to the new Funknet > information page. Please let me know if you come across outdated links to > Funknet so we can fix them. > > As always, if you have a question about the list, or trouble with Mailman > or your subscription options, you can contact a human (but don't ask me to > prove that I really am one!) at: > funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu > > --Robert Englebretson, Funknet List Administration > From jrubba at calpoly.edu Tue Oct 14 22:28:41 2003 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:28:41 -0700 Subject: another query to pass on Message-ID: Here's a fellow who is looking for some corpus evidence. Please reply directly to him. Thanks! --Jo Message 1: Q: THAT-clause subjects Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:48:45 +0200 From: J-C Khalifa Subject: Q: THAT-clause subjects I was just wondering whether there has been any work at all on the acceptability of clausal subjects like, say : THAT Arnold was elected which are perfectly acceptable with adjectival predicates like : _________was surprising or verbal predicates like: ___________surprised everyone. with bare copulas followed by another THAT-clause. In other words, are there any contexts where THAT ARNOLD WAS ELECTED WAS THAT VOTERS WERE BLIND might be acceptable? They are (are they?) with verbs like MEAN (That Arnold was elected means that voters were blind) Does anyone know of any such sentences in corpora, and/or any relevant work into that question? I'll gladly post a summary if feedback proves interesting. Thanks in advance, Jean-Charles Khalifa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 ? Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone. 756-2596 ? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ? Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Salinas17 at aol.com Wed Oct 15 03:04:36 2003 From: Salinas17 at aol.com (Salinas17 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:04:36 EDT Subject: [Not a Simple Past Perfect Question] Message-ID: In a message dated 10/13/03 3:37:15 PM, jrubba at calpoly.edu writes: <> Conventionally, the difference is eaplained as a matter of emphasis or precision. See, e.g., http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/pastperfect01.html <> Temporal conjunctions serve something like the same function as the past perfect, but not exactly. Consider: - Before there was earth, there was sky. - Before there was earth, there had been sky. (The first places emphasis on sky. The second emphasizes the differences in verb tense - it matters that sky preceded earth.) Compare: - There was earth. There had been sky. (Jimmy left. He had eaten three eggs.) - There was earth. There was sky. (Jimmy left. He ate three eggs.) (Without the conjunction, the first seems to strongly imply cause or replacement, doesn't it? The second -- without conjunction -- conveys possibly an altogether different temporal order.) Finally: - Before there had been earth, there had been sky. What's wrong with this sentence? Is there no longer sky or earth? I don't think that bothers us. We automatically presume that additional context will clarify the tenses. (e.g., "...and then people were created.") And perhaps that is what is essential to all of these examples. They don't only imply rules. They also imply an explanatory context -- which we often supply ourselves, and which are crucial to making sense out of out-of-context phrases like these. SLong From lamb at rice.edu Thu Oct 16 15:20:56 2003 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:20:56 -0500 Subject: Forthcoming LACUS conference Message-ID: (Apologies if you get this notice also from another source) The Thirty-First LACUS Forum will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), 27 - 31 July 2004. Conference theme: "Interconnections" (covering interfaces within language and also connections between language and other areas of human life and cognition) A full description of the conference, including the "Call for papers" will be placed on the LACUS website (www.lacus.org) by about the beginning of November. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 January 2004. For further information, please contact: David Bennett db at soas.ac.uk (Dept. of Linguistics, SOAS, University of London Chair, LACUS Conference Committee) From bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Thu Oct 16 21:23:52 2003 From: bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:23:52 -0700 Subject: BLS 30 -- Call for Papers Message-ID: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Thirtieth Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *GENERAL SESSION* The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology. *Invited Speakers* Alice Harris, SUNY Stony Brook Bruce Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles Elizabeth Hume, Ohio State University Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder & Stanford University *PARASESSION* "Conceptual Structure and Cognition in Grammatical Theory" The Parasession invites submissions addressing the following question: to what extent and in what ways can findings from cognitive science and psychology be integrated into formalisms for linguistic analysis? Papers representing all views and approaches are sought. Those that address both experimental data and formal theoretical models are particularly welcomed. *Invited Speakers* Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3rd speaker TBA 4th speaker TBA *SPECIAL SESSION* -- "Morphology of Native American Languages" The Special Session covers the morphology of native languages of the Americas. Papers in all areas of morphological inquiry, from all approaches, are welcomed. *Invited Speakers* Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin, Madison 3rd speaker TBA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*** Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (not exceeding 12 pages) by May 15, 2004. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach and conclusions. Abstracts may be at most four hundred words not including data and references. The reverse side of the single page may be used for data and references only. 10 copies of an anonymous, one-page (8.5"x11") abstract should be sent, along with a 3"x5" card listing: (1) paper title (2) session (General/Para/Special) (3) name(s) of author(s) (4) affiliation(s) of author(s) (5) address where notification of acceptance should be mailed (Dec 2003) (6) contact phone number for each author (7) email address for each author ***for General Session submissions only*** (8a) subfield (syntax, phonology, etc.) ***for Para-/Special Session submissions only*** (8b) indication of whether you wish to have your abstract considered for the General Session if the organizers determine that your paper will not fit the other sessions *SEND ABSTRACTS TO* BLS 30 Abstracts Committee University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by 5:00 p.m., December 3, 2003. We cannot accept faxed abstracts. Abstracts submitted via e-mail are also accepted. Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text, PDF or Microsoft Word (Mac version preferred) can be accepted. Electronically submitted abstracts should have the author's name as filename. The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(9) above. Electronic submissions may be sent to bls at socrates.berkeley.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***REGISTRATION INFORMATION*** All attendees, including presenters, must register for the meeting. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to Berkeley Linguistics Society. Received in our office by February 1, 2004: Students $20 Non-students $40 Received after February 1, 2004: Students $25 Non-students $55 *SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO* BLS 30 Registration University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 ***BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested through bls at socrates.berkeley.edu before 12/1/03*** We may be contacted by e-mail: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu. Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808 website: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ From vanvalin at buffalo.edu Mon Oct 20 19:13:58 2003 From: vanvalin at buffalo.edu (Robert VanValin) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:13:58 -0400 Subject: 2004 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference Message-ID: 2004 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference July 21-25, 2004 Dublin, Ireland Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Linguistic theory and practice: description, implementation and processing Themes: The lexicon and lexical decomposition in RRG. The RRG approach to morphology RRG and neurocognitive models of language processing Computational approaches to RRG Celtic Linguistics Lectures and workshops will be held on July 21-23. The conference will be July 24-25. The call for papers (submission deadline: March 15, 2004) and detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website. Conference website: http://www.itb.ie/events/rrg2004.html Conference e-mail address: rrg2004 at itb.ie From bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Fri Oct 24 08:51:44 2003 From: bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:51:44 -0700 Subject: BLS 30 -- updated Call for Papers Message-ID: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 30th Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. GENERAL SESSION The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology. Invited Speakers: Alice Harris, SUNY Stony Brook Bruce Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles Elizabeth Hume, Ohio State University Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder & Stanford University PARASESSION: "Conceptual Structure and Cognition in Grammatical Theory" The Parasession invites submissions addressing the following question: to what extent and in what ways can findings from cognitive science and psychology be integrated into formalisms for linguistic analysis? Papers representing all views and approaches are sought. Those that address both experimental data and formal theoretical models are particularly welcomed. Invited Speakers: Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SPECIAL SESSION: "Morphology of Native American Languages" The Special Session covers the morphology of native languages of the Americas. Papers in all areas of morphological inquiry, from all approaches, are welcomed. Invited Speakers: Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by *** 5:00 pm, December 3, 2003 *** An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach and conclusions, and may be at most 400 words (not including data and references, which may be placed on the reverse side). 10 copies of an anonymous, one-page (8.5"x11") abstract should be sent, along with a 3"x5" card listing: (1) paper title (2) session (General/Para/Special) (3) name(s) of author(s) (4) affiliation(s) of author(s) (5) address where notification of acceptance should be sent (6) phone number for each author (7) email address for each author (8) subfield (syntax, phonology, etc.) SEND ABSTRACTS TO BLS 30 Abstracts Committee 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Abstracts may also be submitted via e-mail. Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text, PDF, or Microsoft Word (Mac version preferred) can be accepted. Electronically submitted abstracts should have the author's name as filename, followed by the appropriate file extension. The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(8) above. We cannot accept faxed abstracts. Send electronic submissions to . PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION Presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (up to 12 pages) by May 15, 2004. REGISTRATION INFORMATION All attendees, including presenters, must register for the conference. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Received in our office by February 1, 2004: Students $20 Non-students $40 On-site, or received after February 1, 2004: Students $25 Non-students $55 SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO BLS 30 Registration 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested before Dec. 1, 2003. We may be contacted: Email: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808 Website: www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ Updates will be posted to our website. The conference schedule will be posted in January. From lmicciulla at comcast.net Mon Oct 27 12:37:05 2003 From: lmicciulla at comcast.net (Linnea Micciulla) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:37:05 -0500 Subject: Reminder: BUCLD 28 starts 10/31 Message-ID: **************************************************************** 28TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT October 31, November 1 and 2, 2003 **************************************************************** Invited Speakers: Keynote speaker: Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York Plenary speaker: Mabel Rice, University of Kansas Lunch Symposium: "What can language development tell us about linguistic relativity?" Lunch Symposium Speakers: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania John Lucy, University of Chicago Anna Papafragou, University of Pennsylvania Lera Boroditsky, MIT Other Highlights: *An exciting program of 87 papers and 42 posters *BUCLD Business Meeting *NSF/NIH Funding Symposium and Consultation Hours *Book exhibits from over 15 publishers on display Friday through Sunday *Nursing room available throughout the weekend for nursing mothers *Limited number of bag lunches available for purchase on Friday and Saturday Location: The Conference will be held in the George Sherman Union located at 775 Commonwealth Avenue. The schedule, along with registration and general information, is also available on our web page at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or e-mail us at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions. From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 10:54:55 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:54:55 +0300 Subject: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the first call for papers for the 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference. The conference will be held in October 2004 in the city of Kazan. All the best Andrej Kibrik From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 11:51:52 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:51:52 +0300 Subject: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the first call for papers for the 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference. The conference will be held in October 2004 in the city of Kazan. All the best Andrej Kibrik From kibrik at comtv.ru Fri Oct 31 15:49:44 2003 From: kibrik at comtv.ru (Andrej Kibrik) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:49:44 +0300 Subject: Fw: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please see below the call for papers for the 1st Russian conference on Cognitive Science. Sorry about the previous unsuccessful attempts to post this information - I have not posted anything to this list for a while. Andrej Kibrik Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia ========================================================================== FIRST RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE October 9-12, 2004, Kazan First Call for Papers The goal of the conference is to create a joint forum for representatives from various disciplines exploring cognition and its evolution, intellect, thinking, perception, consciousness, knowledge representation and acquisition, language as a means of cognition and communication, brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neurophysiologists, specialists in artificial intelligence and neuroinformatics, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, as well as other scientists interested in interdisciplinary issues in cognitive studies, are invited to take part in the conference. The conference will be held in one of the major university cities of Russia, Kazan. Among the invited speakers will be: Konstantin V. Anokhin (Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, neurobiology) Wallace Chafe (University of California at Santa Barbara, linguistics) Sandro V. Kodzasov (Moscow State University, linguistics) Michael Posner (University of Oregon, Eugene, neuropsychology) Helge Ritter (University of Bielefeld, neuroinformatics and robotics) Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, psychology, anthropology) The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English. Those willing to participate in the conference are requested to send a short e-mail message, in Russian or in English, no later than January 15, 2004. The program committee needs these messages in order to have a preliminary estimate of the number and range of paper proposals. Deadline for submitting paper proposals: March 1, 2004. Decisions on acceptance of paper proposals will be made by June 1, 2004 For details, see conference web site: www.ksu.ru/cogsci04. Conference e-mail address: cogsci04 at s2s.msu.ru