Workshop

[Tom Roeper]

UUSLAW May 1, 2004
University of Massachusetts/ University of Connecticut/Smith College 
Language Acquisition Workshop

Place: Campus center room 104, Elm Street, Smith College, Northampton 
Mass (see map)

Parking:
Free on most streets around campus, in campus parking lots or in Parking 
garage on Rte 10 (see map)

Schedule
9.30 Uri Strauss, U.Mass. “"Maximality: Acquisition issues"

10 Natalia Rakhlin, U.Conn "The Acquisition of the Definite and 
Indefinite Determiners"

10.30 Joanne Lee-Terry (U.Conn) “Syntactic Bootstrapping: A viable 
strategy for Mandarin verb learners”

11 Coffee break

11.20 Sarah Hulsey, Valentine Hacquard and Andrea Gualmini (MIT) 
"Isomorphism is not the answer. Give context a chance."

12 Ji-young Kim (U.Conn)"Preschool Children's Use of Discourse Markers"

12.30 lunch at Campus Center Café (Bring cash! Cheap, varied)

1.30 Conversations: Exchange of new/recent ideas/ideas in progress:
Tim Bryant,(U.Mass),
Gwynne Morrissey(Smith),
Liane Jeschull (U.Mass),
Jill de Villiers, Jacqueline Cahillane & Emily Altreuter(Smith)

2.30 Lauren Swenson (U.Conn) "Do Autistic Children have Lexical Biases: 
A Look at the Noun Biases."

2.50 Tom Roeper (U.Mass) and Jill de Villiers (Smith) “Integrating point 
of view”

3.30 coffee break
4 Bosook Kang (U.Conn) "A Learnability Puzzle in Acquisition of Scrambling"

4.30 Anna Verbuk (U.Mass)"Acquisition of Supplementary
Expressions and Speaker / Utterance Oriented Adverbs."

5 Michael Wagner (MIT)"Association with `only' and Islandhood”

6 Take-out Chinese dinner at Jill and Peter’s house, 71 Pine street, 
Florence (see map).
Please come!