6.1282, Confs: Acquisition of Spanish
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Subject: 6.1282, Confs: Acquisition of Spanish
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:34:00 EDT
From: ATP2 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux")
Subject: Acquisition of Spanish Conference Program
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:34:00 EDT
From: ATP2 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux")
Subject: Acquisition of Spanish Conference Program
Penn State conference on the Acquisition of Spanish
as a First or Second Language
October 12-14, 1995
The Penn State Scanticon Conference Center Hotel
University Park, Pennsylvania
Conference Program
Thursday, October 12
4:00-6:00 p.m. Registration
6:00-6:15 Welcome
Dr. John Brighton
Executive Vice President and Provost The
Pennsylvania State University
6:15-7:15 Plenary Address: "The Function of Private
Speech in the Acquisition and Use of Spanish as a
Second Language". Dr. James Lantolf, Cornell
University
7:30-8:30 Reception
Friday, October 13
(Track 1)
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration
8:30-10:00 L2 Input Processing
Chair: Jane Berne, University of North Dakota
1. An Experiment on the Simultaneous Processing
of Meaning and Verbal Morphology in Spanish.
Marisol Fernandez, Michigan State University
2. Acoustic Salience of Grammatical Forms: The
Effect of Location and Stress on Spanish Input
Processing.
Joe Barcroft, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
3. Do Forms Have Meaning or Does Meaning Have
Form?
James F. Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Lexicon and Acquisition
Chair: Donna Rogers, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Do Cognates Help Second-Language Readers?:
Evidence fromComputerized Lessons
Robert J. Blake, UC Davis
2. Semantic Role Assignment in L2 Spanish: The
Role of Background Knowledge
Tony Houston, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
3. Translating Words in the Presence of Context.
Catherine Elsinger and Judith F. Kroll, The
Pennsylvania State University
11:45 a.m.-noon Break
noon-1:00 p.m. Plenary Address
Constructive Processes in Acquisition
Dr. Tom Roeper
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:30-3:30 L2 Production Research (I)
Chair: Rebecca Kline, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Sociocultural Perspectives on the Function of
Discourse in
Classroom L2 Collaborative Tasks
Richard Donato, University of Pittsburgh
Frank B. Brooks, Florida State University
2. Cognitive Issues in SLA Research Methodology:
Task Demands on Production Processes
Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 L2 Reading Research
Chair: John Angell, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. The Impact of Strategy Training on Reading
Comprehension Among
Beginning Students of Spanish
Jorge Cubillos and Ryan Nussey, University of
Delaware
2. Can Beginning Spanish Learners Comprehend
Authentic Texts?: TheRole of Content and Formal
Schemata in L2 Reading Comprehension
Michael Sharron, The Pennsylvania State University
(Track 2)
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration
8:30-10:00 Subjects and Agreement in Child
Language
Chair: Phil Baldi, The Pennsylvania State University
1. The Status of Pro-drop in the Initial State:
Results from New Analyses of Spanish/English
Contrasts
Jennifer Austin, Zelmira Nunez del Prado, Maria
Blume, Reyna Proman, and Barbara Lust, Cornell
University
2. Morfemas de Concordancia con el Sujeto y
con los Objetos en el Castellano Infantil
Maria Jose Ezeizabarrena Segurola,
Universitat Hamburg
3. Morphological Underspecification and Overt
Subjects in Child Catalan and Spanish
John Grinstead, University of California-Los Angeles
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 The Syntax of Subjects in L2
Chair: Maureen Weissenrieder, Ohio University
1. The Pro-drop Parameter in Second Language
Acquisition Revisited
Philippe Prevost, McGill University
2. A Longitudinal Study of Spanish Non-native
Grammars: Beyond Parameters
Z. Fernandez, B. Laguardia, J. M. Liceras, and D.
Maxwell, University of Ottawa
3. OPC Effects in Spanish L2 Acquisition
Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux and William R. Glass, The
Pennsylvania State University
11:45 a.m. -noon Break
noon-1:00 p.m. Plenary Address
2:30-3:30 Sentential Complements
Chair: Tamara Alkasey, Carnegie Mellon University
1. Verb Complementation, Co-reference and Tense
in the SLA of Spanish
Joyce Bruhn-Garavito, McGill University
2. A Parametric Study of Spanish L2 Acquisition:
Word Order and Complement Subject Interpretation in
Control Clauses
Nora Gonzalez, University of Iowa
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Tense and Aspect
Chair: Maria Jesus Amores, West Virginia University
1. Integrating Attention to Form and Meaning:
Focus on Form in Content-based Spanish Instruction
Jennifer Leeman, Igone Arteagoitia, Boris Fridman,
and Catherine Doughty, Georgetown University
2. The Acquisition of Past Tense Aspectual
Distinctions between
Preterite and Imperfect: The Spanish Interlanguageof
Danish ClassroomLearners.
Teresa Cadierno, University of Aarhus
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 Plenary Address
Sin Titulo 1995
Dr. Bill VanPatten
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
7:00 Dinner at Gamble Mill Tavern
Saturday, October 14
8:30-9:30 a.m. Plenary Address
Metodos de Investigacion Sobre Adquisicion
Gramatical Temprana Dra. Susana Lopez-Ornat
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
9:30-9:45 Break
(Track 1)
9:45-11:15 Word Order
Chair: John Gutierrez, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Los Niveles de Representacion Gramatical y la
Fijacion de Parametros: El Problema de la
Determinacion en la Adquisicion del Espanol Como
Lengua Extranjera
J. M. Liceras, University of Ottawa
2. Models, Recasts, and the Acquisition of Adverb
Placement and Object Topicalization by Adult
Learners of Spanish
Lourdes Ortega and Michael H. Long, University of
Hawaii
3. Word Order Transfer in Possessive
Constructions: The L2 Spanish of Quechua Speakers
Liliana Sanchez and Jose Camacho, University of
Southern California
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30 a.m. Bilingual Grammars
-1:00 p.m. Chair: Judith F. Kroll, The Pennsylvania
State University
1. Syntax Acquisition in Spanish Bilinguals.
M. Concepcion Piragine, University of Iowa
2. That-trace Effects in Spanish and English
Speaking Monolinguals and Bilinguals.
Virginia Gathercole, Florida International University
and University of Wales
3. Diferenciacion de Sistemas Gramaticales en un
Nino Vascohispanofono Bilingue.
Andoni Barrena, Universidad de Salamanca
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:30-3:30 Plenary Address
A Principled Approach to L2 Acquisition
Dr. Suzanne Flynn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Classroom-Based Research
Chair: Frank Medley, West Virginia University
1. The Acquisition of First and Second (Spanish)
Language Writing
Eduardo Faingold, SUNY at Stony Brook
2. Creating a Positive Learning Environment: The
Role of Anxiety in the Spanish Language Learning
Process
Vanisa Sellers, The Pennsylvania State University
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 L2 Production Research (II)
Chair: Grant Henning, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Pragmatics and the Generation of Syntactically
Complex Utterances by Foreign-language Learners
of Spanish
Joseph Collentine, Northern Arizona University
2. Variable Production in Morphology and Syntax in
Beginning Students of Spanish in Formal and Informal
Contexts
Maria Ines Coello Biarnes, Ohio University
(Track 2)
9:45-11:15 Acquisition of L2 Phonology
Chair: Barbara Hancin-Bhatt, The Pennsylvania
State University
1. The Effects of Formal Instruction on the
Acquisition of Spanish
Phonology
Manuela Gonzalez-Bueno, University of Southwestern
Louisiana
2. The Ability to Mimic and Its Influence on the
Acquisition of Phonology among L2 Learners of
Spanish
Jeffrey Reeder, The University of Texas at Austin
3. Acquisition in OT
Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30 a.m. Acquisition Orders and Stages
-1:00 p.m. Chair: Alex Borys, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. The Acquisition of ser and estar
Courtney Harrison, University of North Texas
2. Overregularization in Children's Language: The
Acquisition of Verbs in Mexico and Madrid
Catalina Maria Johnson
3. The Second Language Use of the Spanish
Polyfunctional Morpheme se and its Variants: The
Role of Cognitive Domains and Prototypes
Otis Phillip Elliott, Jr., University of Arizona
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:30-3:30 Plenary Address
A Principled Approach to L2 Acquisition
Dr. Suzanne Flynn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Clitics in Child Language
Chair: Lisa Reed, The Pennsylvania State University
1. Clitic Doubling in Early Spanish
Vicens Torrens and Kenneth Wexler, MIT
2. On the First Language Acquisition of Object
Clitics in Spanish:
An Experimental Study
Zelmira Nunez del Prado and Barbara Lust, Cornell
University
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 Clitics in L2
Chair: Diana Mejia, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Acquisition of Dative Clitics by Classroom
Learners of Spanish
Nicole Maier, University of Iowa; Susan Rivera-Mills,
Northern Arizona University
2. Spanish "Gustar" Psych Verbs and the
Unaccusative se Construction
Silvina A. Montrul, McGill University
Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own housing
arrangements. Overnight accommodations have been
arranged at The Penn State Scanticon Conference
Center Hotel, (814) 863-5000. Additional rooms are
available at local hotels. Phone numbers are available
from the conference planner. Drop dates vary. You are strongly encouraged to
make hotels reservations IMMEDIATELY, since October is a very busy month for
local hotels. Please identify yourself as a
participant in the Acquisition of Spanish conference.
Students seeking "crash space" can contact Alex
Borys at afb3 at psuvm.psu.edu or call (814) 865-3947.
Limited space is available upon timely request.
Information about registration:
Chuck Wilson
The Pennsylvania State University
225 Penn State Scanticon
University Park PA 16802-7002
phone (814) 863-5130
fax (814) 863-5190
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