7.693, Confs: Children and theory; Nootka

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-693. Thu May 16 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  145
 
Subject: 7.693, Confs: Children and theory; Nootka
 
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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 13:56:23 BST
From:  wchtsalt at let.ruu.nl (wchtsalt congres)
Subject:  WCHTSALT: preliminary programme
 
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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 15:40:32 +0200
From:  martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de ("F. Javier Martinez Garcia")
Subject:  Conf: Nootka: An Endangered Language
 
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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 13:56:23 BST
From:  wchtsalt at let.ruu.nl (wchtsalt congres)
Subject:  WCHTSALT: preliminary programme
 
          WHAT CHILDREN HAVE TO SAY ABOUT LINGUISTIC THEORIES
 
             A language acquisition workshop organized by the
   Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS) of Utrecht University
            to be held at Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Utrecht (NL)
                             28-29 June 1996.
 
                  ******* preliminary programme *******
 
Friday June, 28, 1996:
 
9:00   Coffee
 
9:30   Opening statement
       Peter Coopmans and William Philip (Utrecht University)
 
10:00  Children Checking Checking Theory. A Comparison of Case-filter and
       Feature-checking Approaches
       Sonja Eisenbeiss and Martina Penke (University of Duesseldorf)
 
11:00  Coffee break
 
11:15  Wh-in-Situ: To Move or Not to Move?
       Cornelia Hamann (University of Geneva)
 
12:15  Commentary
       Nina Hyams (U.C.L.A.)
 
13:00  Lunch
 
14:30  Subject-Initial Verb Second as IP: Evidence from subject/non-subject
       asymmetries in the acquisition of verb-second in Mainland Scandinavian.
       Lynn Santelmann (University of Buffalo)
 
15:30  Tea Break
 
15:45  Superiority: Syntax or Semantics?
       Juergen Weissenborn (Potsdam), Tom Roeper (Amherst) and
       Jill de Villiers (Smith College)
 
16:45  Commentary
       Ken Wexler (M.I.T.)
 
17:45  Drinks etc.
 
 
Saturday, June 29, 1996:
 
9:00   Avoid (Onset) Fricative and the Stress-to-Weight Principle in
       Phonological Acquisition: a Conspiracy Involving [ytnExt].
       Heleen Lohuis-Weber, Dominique Nouveau and Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht
       University)
 
10:00  The Acquisition of Markedness as the Promotion of Faithfulness
       Constraints: A Case Study in Onset Selection
       Amalia Gnanadesikan (Rutgers University)
 
11:00  Coffee Break
 
11:15  Competence and Performance in Child Phonology
       Mark Hale and Charles Reiss (Concordia University)
 
12:15  Commentary
       Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
 
13:15  Lunch
 
14:45  What Case Acquisition Data Have to Say about the Components of INFL
       Carson Schuetze and Ken Wexler (M.I.T.)
 
15:45  Tea Break
 
16:00  Commentary and Overview
       Eric Reuland (Utrecht University)
 
 
Registration fee: DFL. 60.00 (Faculty)
                       40.00 (Students)
 
PRE-REGISTRATION (PREFERRABLY BY E-MAIL) IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!
 
For further information please contact the OTS/conference secretariat:
 
   OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, Netherlands
   tel. +31 30 253 6006
   fax. +31 30 253 6000
   E-mail: WCHTSALT at let.ruu.nl
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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 15:40:32 +0200
From:  martinez at em.uni-frankfurt.de ("F. Javier Martinez Garcia")
Subject:  Conf: Nootka: An Endangered Language
 
Gastvortrag
Bernice Touchie (Ha-Ho-Payuk School - Port Alberni, BC, Kanada):
"Nootka: An Endangered Language"
Ort/Place: Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft,
        Georg-Voigt-Str. 6, EG, Raum 5.
        Frankfurt
Zeit/time:   Freitag, 24. Mai 1996, 12:00 c.t.
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