7.333, Confs: Lang acquisition (GALA 1997), Northwest Ling Conference

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Subject: 7.333, Confs: Lang acquisition (GALA 1997), Northwest Ling Conference
 
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Date:  Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:33:37 GMT
From:  heycock at ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock)
Subject:  Conf. announcement: GALA 97 in Edinburgh
 
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Date:  Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:47:59 PST
From:  mgalvao at u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao)
Subject:  NWLC 1996 Program
 
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Date:  Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:33:37 GMT
From:  heycock at ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock)
Subject:  Conf. announcement: GALA 97 in Edinburgh
 
			International Conference
				   on
      Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing
			       GALA 1997
 
			  4th - 6th April 1997
			 University of Edinburgh
 
		       ---- INVITED SPEAKERS ----
			    Melissa Bowerman
			       Nina Hyams
			     Peter Jusczyk
			     Steven Pinker
			     Andrew Radford
			    Bonnie D. Schwartz
			     Paul Smolensky
 
This, the third of the GALA conferences on Language Acquisition, will
be held at the University of Edinburgh in 1997. Building on the
success of its predecessors (Groningen 1995, Durham 1993), this
conference aims to encourage a spirit of dialogue between
linguistically-oriented and psychologically-oriented researchers.
 
A call for papers and posters will be issued shortly.
 
Organisers: Antonella Sorace (Applied Linguistics), Caroline Heycock
(Linguistics), Richard Shillcock (Cognitive Science).
 
Address for email correspondence: gala97 at ling.ed.ac.uk
Other correspondence:	GALA 97
			HCRC, University of Edinburgh 	
			2 Buccleuch Place
			Edinburgh EH8 9LW
			Scotland
 
 
 
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Date:  Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:47:59 PST
From:  mgalvao at u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao)
Subject:  NWLC 1996 Program
 
 
                       Northwest Linguistics Conference	
	                   University of Washington
			     Saturday, March 30th
 
8:30		BREAKFAST
 
9:00-9:30	Eliminating Overt Verb-Movement in Korean and Checking Theory
		Tai-Soo Kim, University of Washington
 
9:30-10:00	Long-Distance Anaphora:  the Minimalist Approach
       		Hyeran Lee, University of Florida
 
10:00-10:30	Attributive Adjectives and Case Matching
		Enrique Mallen, Texas A&M University
 
10:30-10:45	BREAK
 
10:45-11:15 	Syntactic Analysis of Focus Sentences in Japanese and its
		Implication
		Yuki Matsuda, University of Southern California
 
11:15-11:45	Right Dislocation as IP-ellipsis
		Yael Sharvit, Rutgers University
 
11:45-12:15	Overt Expletive Subjects in Pro-drop Languages
		Luis Silva-Villar, UCLA
 
12:15-12:45	Metalinguistic Use of "Any" and the Distribution of Free-Choice
 	
	Items in Polarity Contexts
		Subhadra Ramachandran, University of Ottawa, Canada
 
12:45		LUNCH
 
2:15-3:15	*Invited Speaker:  Heles Contreras
		'Deconstructing Weak Crossover'
 
3:15-3:45	Locative and Temporal Weak Proforms
		Javier Gutierrez and Luis Silva, UCLA
 
3:45-4:15	Mora Conservation in Optimality Theory:  evidence from
		Spanish diminutives
		Gorka Elordieta, University of Southern California
		Maria M. Carreira, California State University at Long Beach
 
4:15-4:30	BREAK
 
4:30-5:00	Suprasegmental Changes in Progress:  Parallelism Between
		Japanese and English
		Noriko Hattori, Mie University, Japan
 
5:00-5:30	Untitled
		Bowen Hui, University of British Columbia, Canada
 
5:30-6:00	Categorial and Phi-Features in Language Disorders
		Monica Eszter Sanchez, Brock University, Canada
 
6:00		DINNER
		
			     Sunday, March 31st
 
 
8:30		BREAKFAST
 
9:00-9:30	The Acquisition of Determiner Phrases in Early Child Language
		Ute Bohnacker, University of Durham, England
 
9:30-10:00	Morpheme Acquisition and the Count/Mass Distinction of Nouns
		Keiko Okada and Yoichi Miyamoto, Ohio University
 
10:00-10:30	Assimilation, Weakening and Geminate Inalterability
		Chang-Kook Suh, University of Arizona
 
10:30-10:45	BREAK
 
10:45-11:15	Nasal Harmony is Strictly Local
		Rachel Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz
 
11:15-11:45	An Analogical Approach to German Plural Formation
		Douglas J Wulf, University of Washington
 
11:45-12:15	Propositional Anaphora and Presupposition Denial
		Orin Percus, MIT
 
12:15-12:45	Contrastive and Exhaustive Focus Readings in Korean
		Mean-Young Song, Georgetown University
 
12:45		LUNCH
 
2:15-3:15	*Invited Speaker:  Siri Tuttle
 
3:15-3:45	Syntax and Discourse Function of "Wa" Marking in Japanese
		Akihiko Uechi, University of British Columbia, Canada
 
3:45-4:15	Transitivity and Japanese Floating Numeral Quantifiers
		Yuji Yamaura, Saga College, Japan
 
4:15-4:45	Referentiality Effects and Verb Compounds
		Ke Zou, California State University		
 
4:45-5:00	SNACK
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