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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</div>
<div> constructions emerge first?
What criteria should we use in establishing</div>
<div> productivity? What makes
constructions easy vs. hard to acquire?</div>
<div> Can children's bases for
inferences about the relevant noun or verb</div>
<div> meanings be identified? Are
there consistent patterns across children</div>
<div> in the acquisition of
constructions? Are there differences from one</div>
<div> verb type to another, or
from intransitive to transitive? Are</div>
<div> differences attributable to
differences in frequencies in child-</div>
<div> directed speech? What
cross- linguistic comparisons are available?</div>
<div> Which constructions have
been considered in studies of children's</div>
<div> early syntactic forms?</div>
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<div><b>Abstracts</b> are due on or before January 1, 2004; submitters
will be</div>
<div>informed of all 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</div>
<div> 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 announcements about the meeting, <u>
www-csli.stanford.edu/~clr</u>f</div>
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<div>(Anyone<u> unable</u> to submit by email should send their
abstracts and</div>
<div>identifying information to: CLRF-2004, Department of
Linguistics,</div>
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