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International Conference
Grammaticalization and language acquisition
25 - 26 March 2010
Paris, France
CNRS Site Pouchet, 59-61 Rue Pouchet, Paris 75017

organized by
Dominique Bassano
(CNRS, Structures Formelles du Langage, UMR 7023, CNRS - Université  
Paris 8, Paris, France)
ANR LANGRAMACQ

and by
Edy Veneziano
(Université Paris Descartes, MoDyCo, UMR 7114, CNRS - Université Paris  
Ouest & Paris Descartes, Paris, France)
ANR EMERGRAM

This Conference places itself within current debates on the origin and  
nature of children's language competences. The issues addressed  
concern more particularly the emergence and development of two central  
categories of linguistic systems: Nouns and Verbs.

At the end of their first year of life children talk in single word  
utterances to communicate meanings and intentions. Around three years  
of age, they have acquired enough linguistic knowledge to produce  
grammatically appropriate utterances for the same purpose. The  
development of grammaticality - or grammaticalization - of utterances  
is a central process showing that language is not only a way to  
communicate meanings and intentions but has properties specific to an  
organized system. Understanding how the processes of  
grammaticalization take place during the second and third year, and  
how they progress and are enriched by further development, is  
fundamental for a theory of language acquisition in general, and for a  
greater understanding of typical and atypical development, in  
particular.

In this Conference results obtained within two research projects  
supported by the ANR, LANGRAMACQ (directed by D. Bassano) and EMERGRAM  
(directed by E. Veneziano), will be presented and discussed.  The main  
issues will concern the emergence of the Noun and Verb categories  
within a language system under construction, the nature of the  
subject's knowledge at different developmental periods, and of the  
processes of acquisition.  The two projects deal with these issues  
basing themselves on developmental and cross-linguistic approaches.  
They ally the study of early comprehension and production, as well as  
analyses of late developments (first and second language acquisition  
in adult learners). They bring together experimental and fine-grained,  
scientifically-sound methods of analyses of corpora. They plead for  
the usefulness of models, e.g., nonlinear dynamic systems theory, for  
a better understanding of the dynamics of development.

PROGRAM

THURSDAY March 25th

9h30 - 10h
Introduction
D. Bassano & E. Veneziano

Introduction to ANR Langramacq
D. Bassano

10h - 11h
Early comprehension of syntactic constructions: Transitive structures  
in French
M. Kail, D. Bassano,  M. Boibieux et P. Bonnet
	Developmental issues
	Experimental paradigms
	Reversible transitive structures: New results based on the intermodal  
preferential looking paradigm

11h-11h15: Coffee break

11h15- 13h
Early production: The acquisition of nominal determiners in three  
children learning different languages
D. Bassano, I. Maillochon, W.U. Dressler, K. Korecky-Kröll, S. Laaha,  
P. van Geert & M. van Dijk
	A contrastive and dynamic approach to development
	Language typology and determiner systems: French, Dutch, German
	The development of determiner use: Comparing the three children
	Prosodic and lexical influences on determiner acquisition

13h -14h30: Lunch

14h30-15h30
Modeling the role of  the input: Input-output relationships from a  
dynamic systems perspective
P. van Geert, M. van Dijk, D. Bassano, I. Maillochon, W.U. Dressler,  
K. Korecky-Kröll, & S. Laaha
	A dynamic model of adaptation between child directed speech and child  
language
	Applying the model to the study of three variables: MLU, vocabulary,  
determiner use

15h30 – 16h
Looking for input effects: A study on noun grammaticalization in French
D. Bassano, I. Maillochon & P. Bonnet

16h-16h30:  Coffee break

16h30- 18h
Lexicalization and grammaticalization in the verb and the verbal  
network: Typological constraints on language acquisition
M. Hickmann, H. Hendriks, A.C. Demagny, A.K. Ochsenbauer, T.  
Iakovleva, E. Soroli, P. Bonnet, P. Taranne
	Typological constraints on the expression of motion in first  
language: French, English, German
	Space and temporality in second language acquisition by adults

18h00- 18h30
Discussion
Discussant: J. Weissenborn

FRIDAY March 26th

9h30 - 10h
Introduction to ANR Emergram
E. Veneziano

10h-11h15
The emergence of Noun and Verb categories in French: Evidence from  
production and comprehension studies
E. Veneziano, C. Parisse, M. Leroy, E. Mathiot, A. Morgenstern, A.  
Delacour
	Longitudinal development in the production of "Fillers"
	The comprehension of noun and verb grammatical cues in 2 to 4 years old

11h15 -11h30 : Coffee break

11h30 - 12h00
Nouns and Verbs in Spanish : Input and Output from 20 to 25 month
S. López Ornat & S. Nieva

12h00 - 13h00
Verbal morphology: Acquisition, input and conversation in development
	Verb inflections in the single-form verb period: The role of the  
input and of conversational contingencies
	E. Veneziano & C. Parisse
	
	Homophone verb forms and adult's reformulations: The first  
constructions of verb paradigms
	E. V. Clark & Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

  13h -14h30: Lunch

14h30-15h00
Verbal morphology: Acquisition, input and conversation in development  
(cont'ed)
	First Inflection Contrasts in Spanish Verbs: Interaction and Homonymy
	C. Rojas Nieto

15h00-15h45
Transitions towards articulated speech
	Funny Things can Happen on the way to Word Combinations (15h00-15h30)
	A. Peters
	
	A conversational model for the transition to articulated speech: An  
introduction (15h30-15h45)
	E. Veneziano

15h45 - 16h15 Coffee break

16h15 - 17h15
Transitions towards articulated speech (cont'ed)
	Towards word combination in Spanish: the role of conversational  
interaction
	S. Nieva

	Transition to multiword utterances in English
	L. McCune & E. Herr-Israel

17h15 - 18h
The construction of a language system: Putting together fragments of  
language knowledge
E. Veneziano, C. Parisse, M. Leroy, E. Mathiot, A. Morgenstern; A  
Peters;  C. Rojas Nieto

18h00 - 18h30
Discussion
Discussant : E.V. Clark









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