<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>This is to let you know about an upcoming joint meeting of the workshops "Input and Syntactic Acquisition" and "Psychocomputational models of Language Acquisition", to be held as a Satellite Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, taking place on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, Portland, Oregon.</div><div><br></div><div>For full details of the program please consult the webpages of the two workshops:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/CoLaLab/isa2012/schedule.html">http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/CoLaLab/isa2012/schedule.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/">http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The meeting combines the second in the series of the workshops "Input and Syntactic Acquisition" which examines the relationship between the input children receive and the eventual knowledge speakers attain, with the sixth occurrence of the workshop "Psychocomputational models of Language Acquisition" which centers around psychologically-motivated computational models of language acquisition.</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop organizers:</div><div><br></div><div>Lisa Pearl</div><div>Jon Sprouse</div><div>William Sakas</div><div>Alexander Clark</div><div><br></div><div>Registration for the workshops is free and available to all, but you must register for the LSA annual meeting.</div><div>Please do this using the sister society code: PSYCHOCOMP2012. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lsadc.org/meetings/registration1.cfm?type=ssm">http://www.lsadc.org/meetings/registration1.cfm?type=ssm</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you have already registered for the LSA, but would like to attend, please email </div><div>Alexander Clark <a href="mailto:alexc@cs.rhul.ac.uk">alexc@cs.rhul.ac.uk</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>~~~</div><div>Schedule:</div><div><br></div><div>8:30am -- 12:00: Input and Syntactic Acquisition</div><div><br></div><div>Invited Speakers: </div><div><br></div><div>Virginia Valian "Input and Innateness"</div><div><br></div><div>Misha Becker "Inanimacy in the input: How a very infrequent cue can still be very powerful"</div><div><br></div><div>Bob Frank "Learning Recursion"</div><div><br></div><div>Alexander Clark "Weak and strong learning of syntax"</div><div><br></div><div>Lisa Pearl and Jon Sprouse "Syntactic Islands without Universal Grammar"</div><div><br></div><div>1pm--3:30pm: PsychocompLA Accepted Abstracts:</div><div><br></div><div>A Psychologically Motivated Model of Word Learning</div><div><br></div><div>Jon Stevens, Charles Yang, John Trueswell, Lila Gleitman</div><div><br></div><div> The Error-Driven Ranking Model of the Acquisition of Phonotactics</div><div><br></div><div>Giorgio Magri</div><div><br></div><div>Syllable-Based Bayesian Inference as a (More) Plausible Statistical Word Segmentation Strategy</div><div><br></div><div>Lawrence Phillips, Lisa Pearl</div><div><br></div><div>From Cradle to Control Verbs. Extending Constructivist Models Beyond Simple Syntax</div><div>Barend Beekhuizen</div><div><br></div><div>Modeling Uncertainty in Novel Noun Classification in Tsez</div><div>Annie Gagliardi, Naomi Feldman, Jeffrey Lidz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation and the EU PASCAL2 Network of Excellence.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>~~~~~~~~~~</div><div>Lisa S. Pearl</div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Cognitive Sciences</div><div>3151 Social Science Plaza</div><div>University of California</div><div>Irvine, CA 92697-5100</div><div>Phone: 949-824-0156</div><div>Fax: 949-824-2307<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;; font-family: Arial; "></span></font></div><div><a href="mailto:lpearl@uci.edu">lpearl@uci.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl">http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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