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<div>The next STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM will take place
on:<br>
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April 16-17,
2004 (Friday-Sunday)<br>
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<div>TOPIC:<b> CONSTRUCTIONS IN EARLY ACQUISITION</b><br>
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<div> How do children learn
constructions--noun phrases, verb phrases, and</div>
<div> other phrase types? Do
they begin with specific lexical items in a</div>
<div> construction and use only
those? To what extent do they build from</div>
<div> 'verb islands' or 'noun
islands' in early constructions? Which constructions</div>
<div> emerge first? What criteria
should we use in establishing productivity?</div>
<div> What makes constructions
easy vs. hard to acquire? Can children's bases</div>
<div> for inferences about the
relevant noun or verb meanings be identified? </div>
<div> Are there consistent
patterns across children in the acquisition of constructions?</div>
<div> Are there differences
from one verb type to another, or from intransitive to</div>
<div> transitive? Are
differences attributable to differences in frequencies in child-</div>
<div> directed speech? What
cross- linguistic comparisons are available? Which</div>
<div> constructions have been
considered in studies of children's early syntactic forms?</div>
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<div><b>Abstracts</b> are due on or before January 1, 2004; submitters
will be informed of all</div>
<div>decisions by February 15, 2004.</div>
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<u>Format for abstracts</u>:<br>
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<div>1. one page, double-spaced, font-size 12, with TITLE and ABSTRACT
only;</div>
<div>2. one page, with the abstract/poster title, name, affiliation,
full mailing address, and email.</div>
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<div>Submit paper/poster abstracts plus author information BY EMAIL
to:</div>
<div> eclark@psych.stanford.edu,
marked " CLRF-2004" in the header line.</div>
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<div>Check the CLRF website for information about registration,
hotels, and any further</div>
<div>announcements about the meeting, <u>
www-csli.stanford.edu/~clr</u>f</div>
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