Child Language Research Forum 2004 / CALL for PAPERS

[Eve Clark]

The next STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM will take place on:

           April 16-17, 2004 (Friday-Sunday)

TOPIC: CONSTRUCTIONS IN EARLY ACQUISITION

        How do children learn constructions--noun phrases, verb phrases, and
        other phrase types?  Do they begin with specific lexical items in a
        construction and use only those?  To what extent do they build from
        'verb islands' or 'noun islands' in early constructions?
Which constructions
        emerge first? What criteria should we use in establishing productivity?
        What makes constructions easy vs. hard to acquire? Can children's bases
        for inferences about the relevant noun or verb meanings be identified?
        Are there consistent patterns across children in the
acquisition of constructions?
        Are there differences  from one verb type to another, or from
intransitive to
        transitive?  Are differences attributable to differences in
frequencies in child-
        directed speech?  What cross- linguistic comparisons are
available?  Which
        constructions have been considered in studies of children's
early syntactic forms?

Abstracts are due on or before January 1, 2004; submitters will be
informed of all
decisions by February 15, 2004.

Format for abstracts:

1. one page, double-spaced, font-size 12, with TITLE and ABSTRACT only;
2. one page, with the abstract/poster title, name, affiliation, full
mailing address, and email.

Submit paper/poster abstracts plus author information BY EMAIL to:
       eclark at psych.stanford.edu,  marked " CLRF-2004" in the header line.

Check the CLRF website for information about registration, hotels,
and any further
announcements about the meeting,  www-csli.stanford.edu/~clrf
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