Language acquisition and language breakdown: program

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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION & LANGUAGE BREAKDOWN
May 28-29, UiL OTS, Utrecht University

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

THURSDAY MAY 27

5-6		Reception & registration

FRIDAY MAY 28

8.45 - 09.15	Registration
9.15 - 09.30	Opening and welcome by Eric Reuland (Director of UiL OTS,
Utrecht 		University)

9.30-10.30	"The Vulnerable C-domain"
		Christer Platzack, Lund University

10.30-11.10	"The Italian determiner system in normal acquisition, specific
	language impairment, and childhood aphasia"
		Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani, Anna Maria Chilosi & Lucia
Pfanner
		University of Perugia, Scientific Institute Stella Maris &
		University
of Pisa

11.10-11.30	coffee

11.30-12.10	"Functional categories and syntactic operations in (ab)normal
language acquisition"
		Celia Jakubowicz & Lea Nash
		CNRS, Université Paris 5 & CNRS, Université Paris 8

12.10-12.50	"The acquisition of event structure in normally developing and
	language impaired children in German"
		Petra Schulz, Karin Wymann & Zvi Penner, Konstanz University

12.50-2.30	lunch

2.30-3.30	"Compounding and  Inflection in Language Impairment"
		Harald Clahsen, University of Essex

3.30-4.10	"Controversies on CP: A comparison of language acquisition and
language impairments in Broca's aphasia"
		Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

4.10-4.30	tea

4.30-5.10	"Root infinitives and finite sentences: child language versus
agrammatic speech"
		Esterella de Roo, HIL, Leiden University

5.10-6.10	"Grammatism: What language breakdown tells us about language
development"
		Stephen Crain, University of Maryland

Evening	Conference dinner

SATURDAY MAY 29

9.30-10.30	"The Unique Checking Constraint and Morphological Parameters as
an 		Explanation of Variation over Time and Language of a Variety of
Syntactic Constructions in Language Acquisition, both Impaired and
	Normal"
		Kenneth Wexler, MIT

10.30-11.10	"The acquisition of complex predicates in Japanese specifically
		language-impaired and normally-developing children"
		Shinji Fukuda & Suzy E. Fukuda, McGill University

11.10-11.30	coffee

11.30-12.10	"Comprehension of reversible relative clauses in specifically
language impaired and normally developing children"
		Stavroula Stavraki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

12.10-12.50	"Morphosyntactic features in the verbal and nominal domains: a
	comparison between specifically language impaired and normally
developing Greek children"
		Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge

12.50-2.30	lunch

2.30-3.30	"The use of ellipsis in aphasic and child
	language"
		Herman Kolk, Nijmegen University

3.30-4.10	"Verb inflection and verb diversity in three populations:
agrammatic speakers, normally developing children and children with
specific language impairment"
		Roelien Bastiaanse & Gerard Bol, Groningen University

4.10-4.30	tea

4.30-5.10	"Language acquisition and breakdown in Zulu"
		Susan Suzman & Heile Jordaan, University of the Witwatersrand

5.10-6.10	 "The neurology of syntax"
		Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University

Alternate papers:

"Radical economy in deviant grammar: Deleted Formal Features [Agr and
Relational prep]"
Lamya Abdul-Karim, Eliane Ramos, Thomas Roeper & Harry Seymour
University of Massachusetts

"Verb movement in acquisition and aphasia: Same problem, different
solutions. Evidence from Dutch"
Shalom Zuckerman, Roelien Bastiaanse & Ron van Zonneveld, Groningen University