14.45, Calls: Tense,Aspect,Modality/UG Principles&Input Data

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Subject: 14.45, Calls: Tense,Aspect,Modality/UG Principles&Input Data

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Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:03:31 +0000
From:  amunn at msu.edu
Subject:  Tense, Aspect, Modality and Events, MI USA

2)
Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:09:42 +0000
From:  amunn at msu.edu
Subject:  UG Principles and Input Data, MI USA

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:03:31 +0000
From:  amunn at msu.edu
Subject:  Tense, Aspect, Modality and Events, MI USA


It's about time:
Theoretical and experimental perspectives on tense, aspect, modality and events

Short Title: It's about time

Location: East Lansing, MI USA
Date: 18-Jul-2003 - 19-Jul-2003
Call Deadline: 17-Mar-2003

Web Site: http://cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/time
Contact Person: Alan Munn
Meeting Email: time at cogsci.msu.edu

Linguistic Subfield(s):
Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Linguistic
Theories, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science

Meeting Description:
A Workshop to held July 18-19, 2003 at the LSA Linguistic Institute
Michigan State University

Invited Speakers

Michael Walsh Dickey, Northwestern University
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh


A particularly active area of research in current linguistic theory
is the syntax and semantics of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Events. It
often takes some time for theoretical advances to influence
psycholinguistic work, in part because communication between linguists
and psycholinguists is not always optimal. Results from formal work on
Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Events seem especially likely to lead to
significant experimental and computational work. For this reason, we
have planned a 2 day workshop designed to bring together researchers
from both linguis tics and psycholinguistics who are working on these
topics, and we invite you to participate.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/time or send mail to
time at cogsci.msu.edu

For more information about the LSA Linguistic Institute please visit
the Institute website http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu

Workshop Organizers:

Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University)
Alan Munn (Michigan State University)
Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite anonymous abstracts on the linguistics and/or
psycholinguistics of tense, aspect, modality and events.

Abstracts should be no more than 2 pages including figures and
references, 12 point font with 1'' margins.

At most one individual and one joint abstract per author will be
considered.

E-mail submission of abstracts is required.
Acceptable formats are MS Word or PDF.

Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper and postal
address in the body of the message.

Send abstracts to: time at cogsci.msu.edu

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 17, 2003

Talks will be 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/time or send mail to
time at cogsci.msu.edu

For more information about the LSA Linguistic Institute please visit
the Institute website http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:09:42 +0000
From:  amunn at msu.edu
Subject:  UG Principles and Input Data, MI USA


UG Principles and Input Data: How do we get Plato's Heaven into
Skinner's Box?

Short Title: UG Principles and Input Data
Location: East Lansing, MI USA
Date: 01-Aug-2003 - 02-Aug-2003
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2003

Web Site: http://cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/input
Contact Person: Alan Munn
Meeting Email: input at cogsci.msu.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): Language Acquisition

Meeting Description:
A workshop to be held August 1-2 at the 2003 LSA Linguistic Institute
Michigan State University

Invited Speakers

Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Yang, Yale University

The fundamental question of this workshop is: how does a child less
than 3 years old capture the major abstract principles of his grammar?
There have been two distinct answers to this question. The first
answer is that the child does not capture the abstract principles,
since they are 'inborn' and the child somehow know s how to apply
them. If this is so, it remains unclear how the actual input phrases
(often said to be a 'impoverished') eventually provoke the exact
selection of abstract characteristics that are appropriate for the
language that is being learned. The sec ond answer is that the child
is not guided by abstract principles. Children's earliest utterances
are instantiations of item based schemas or constructions. If so, it
remains unclear how and when the child starts to deal with new
sentences that obey the principles he was claimed to ignore.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/input or send mail to
input at cogsci.msu.edu

For more information about the LSA Linguistic Institute plese visit
the Institute website http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu

Workshop Organizers:

Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University)
Jacqueline van Kampen (UiL, OTS, Utrecht University)
Alan Munn (Michigan State University)


CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite anonymous abstracts for papers that focus on the interaction
of input and abstract principles in language acqui sition.

Abstract guidelines:

Abstracts should be no more than 2 pages including figures and
references, 12 point font with 1'' margins.
At most one individual and one joint abstract per author will be
considered.

E-mail submission of abstracts is required.

Acceptable formats are MS Word or PDF.

Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper and postal
address in the body of the message.

Send abstracts to: input at cogsci.msu.edu

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 31, 2003

Talks will be 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions.

For more information, please visit the Workshop website
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/input or send mail to
input at cogsci.msu.edu

For more information about the LSA Linguistic Institute plese visit
the Institute website http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu

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