Final Programme: Turku Symposium on First Language Acquisition

[Jorma Toivainen]

	Department of Finnish and General Linguistics
	University of Turku

 


	TURKU SYMPOSIUM ON FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 

			1 - 2  September 2000
				Keynote Speaker: Ann Peters, Hawaii
Final programme

Friday 1st September 2000
Fennicum, Henrikinkatu 3, Turku						
					
	Opening 10.00	
University Rector, Professor Keijo Virtanen

Toivainen, Jorma (Turku): Scenes of the child and morphemes of the language 

	Session 	1	11.00 - 
Leiwo, Matti & Koivisto, Jouko & Korhonen, Päivi & Richardson, Ulla &
Turunen, Pirjo (Jyväskylä): On Finnish vowel harmony and language acquisition

Han Yumi (Paris): Convergence of vowel duration between children and their
mother: study of four type utterances such as CV, CVC, CVCV, VCV produced
by two native Korean children aged 19 month to 24

Savinainen-Makkonen, Tuula (Helsinki): Word-initial consonant omissions - a
developmental process in children learning Finnish
							
Turunen, Pirjo & Korhonen, Päivi & Nieminen, Lea (Jyväskylä): Interaction
between phonology, morphology and sentence production in children with
strong prosodic constraints
	Session 2	14.00 - 
Kunnari, Sari & Nakai, Satsuki & Vihman, Marilyn May (Bangor):
Cross-linguistic evidence for acquisition of geminates

Aaltonen, Olli (Turku): What is it that a child learns when it learns to
perceive sounds of the native language

Ström, Ulla & Sala, Eeva & Airo, Erkko (Turku): Päiväkotilasten ja
aikuisten puheenerotuskyky taustamelussa
	Session 3	16.00- 
Maneva, Blagovesta & Konopczynski, Gabrielle (Besançon): Is there regional
variation in early first language acquisition?

Toivainen, Kirsti (Turku): Dialectal variation in derivation of Finnish
baby talk  words

Laalo, Klaus (Tampere): Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child
speech: morphopragmatic and morphophonemic aspects 
  
Pajusalu, Karl (Tartu): Phonological structure of South-Estonian baby talk 

Dinner (Teini)  20.00	Quartet of the Student Union Choir of the University
of Turku

Saturday 2nd September 2000         
	Session 4 	9.00
Höhle, Barbara & Weissenborn, Jürgen (Potsdam): Processing of functional
elements in early language acquisition: Evidence from German

Ceytlin, Stella N. (St. Petersburg): Some observations on the acquisition
of the category of number by a Russian child

Parikka, Ari (Åbo): Morphological expression of possession in early Child
English and Finnish

Veres, Ulla (Göteborg): A contrastive study of three different Swedish
language corpora as input candidates for children's acquisition of past tense

	Session 5	11.00
Behrens, Heike (Leipzig): Acquisition of the argument structure in a
usage-based framework

Kazakovskaja, Victoria (St. Petersburg): Syntactic structures acquisition
by Russian-speaking children: spatial adverbials

Niemi, Sinikka (Joensuu): Swedish word-order in normal and specific
language impairment children

Mosina, Natalja (Saransk): Functions of the grammatical cases in the
language of Erzya and Finnish -speaking children
	Session 6	14.00
Bokus, Barbara (Varsova): Inter-mind phenomena in child narrative discourse

Gonnand, Sophie (Lyon): Development of content recall in different
narrative texts
 
Nordqvist, Åsa (Göteborg): "I'd like a hot dog too!" Investigating
three-year-olds using direct and indirect speech in two types of activities

Belais, Florence (Paris): A study about organization and temporal
structures in two compared child story-tellings
	Session 7	16.30
Niemi, Jussi (Joensuu): Late stages of language development: a neglected
area of  research

	KEYNOTE	17.00

Peters, Ann (Hawaii): The relative roles of analogy and "rules" in
producing complex morphology