Conference Announcement

[Brian MacWhinney]

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Early lexicon acquisition: normal and pathological development
Lyon, December 5-8, 2001
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PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Barbara Davis
Michele Guidetti
Jean-Adolphe Rondal
Marc Bornstein
Marten Eriksson

Conference venue
Institut des Sciences de l'Homme
14, avenue Berthelot
69363 Lyon cedex 07
France
Room: Marc Bloch 4th floor
Tel : +33 (0)4-72-72-64-12
Fax : +33 (0)4-72-72-65-90

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY 5TH DECEMBER

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Registration: Room Elise Rivet, 4th floor
6:30 pm : Welcome cocktail : Room Elise Rivet, 4th floor

THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER

8.00 am - 9.00 am Registration ISH, Salle Elise Rivet, 4th floor
9.00 am - 9.30 am Opening
9.30 am - 10.30am Invited speaker: Mårten Eriksson
Children's words in inventories and tests: what questions do they answer?
10.30 am - 11.00 am Tea/Coffee breack, Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
11.00 am - 11.30 am Katharina Rohlfing
The first step into the acquisition of UNDER
11.30 am - 12.00 pm Margaret Friend & Kelly Diaz
The consistency of parent report and its relation to child performance
12.00 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm - 2.00 pm Sandra Waxman, Amy Booth & Irena Braun
The power of early word-learning
2.00 pm - 2.30 pm Angelika Wittek & Douglas Behrend
Children use novel verbs to determine an actors' intention: Evidence
from the behavioral reenactment task
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Invited speaker: Michèle Guidetti
What is the conventional gestures's contribution to our knowledge of
early lexical acquisition
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Tea/Coffee break, Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm Christophe Parisse & Marie-Thérèse LeNormand
Early lexical development in English and French children aged 1;6 to 2;6
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Marilyn Shatz & Andrea Backscheider
The development of non-object lexical categories in two-year-olds
6.00 pm Boat Trip & Dinner


FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER

9.00 am - 10.00 am Invited speaker: Jean-Adolphe Rondal
Développement lexical chez les sujets retardés mentaux
10.00 am - 10.30 am Andrea Warner-Czyz & Barbara Davis
Acoustic characteristics of early vocabulary in a young cochlear
implant recipient: Relationship to auditory access
10.30 am - 11.00 am Christina Kauschke
Normal and delayed lexical development in German
11.00 am - 11.30 am Tea/Coffee breack, Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
11.30 am - 12.00 pm Sophie Kern & Sophie Gonnand
Lexical development in French toddlers
12.00 pm - 12.30 pm Anne Baker & BeppieVan den Bogaerde
Nouns and verbs in the early lexicon of children learning a sign language
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Poster Session
Room Ennat Léger, André Frossard, Georges Lyvet (basement)
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Tea / Coffee break, Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm Marie Leroy
Acquisition du lexique d'un point de vue prosodique et
posturo-mimo-gestuel: Etude longitudinale des premières
verbalisations d'un enfant (de 0,2 à 1,10)
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Joan Furey & Ruth Watkins
The first 50 words: An examination of concurrent phonological and
lexical development
6:00 pm - 7.00 pm Guided tour: " Les traboules "

SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER

9.00 am - 10.00 am Invited speaker: Barbara Davis
Phonetic and perceptual influences on early lexical acquisition:
Methods and data
10.00 am - 10.30 am Helena Taelman & Steven Gillis
Variation in children's early production of multisyllabic words:
'defective' lexical representations or processing limitations?
10.30 am - 11.00 am Erika Hoff
Phonological memory and word learning in 20-month-olds
11.00 am - 11.30 am Tea / Coffee break, Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
11.30 am - 12.00 pm Daniel Swingley
Phonetic representation in the developing lexicon
12.00 pm - 12.30 pm Lorraine McCune
Motion, perception and action: Do mirror neurons potentiate
linguistic encoding of relational meanings in the single word period
and beyond?
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm - 2.00 pm Dorit Ravid & Rola Farah
The early plural lexicon of palestinian arabic: A longitudinal case study
2.OO pm - 2.30 pm Sabine Klampfer
Early lexicon acquisition from a morphological perspective: Austrian
children's developmental changes from pre- to protomorphology
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm Invited Speaker: Marc Bornstein
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Tea / Coffee break
Room Elise Rivet (4th floor)
4.00 pm - 4.30 pm Donna Vear, Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff & Eliane Ramos
An investigation of the syntactic flexibility within young children's
early verb development: Evidence from a cross-sectional diary study
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Edy Veneziano
Lexical acquisition and the beginnings of combinatorial speech: some
complex relations in two French-acquiring children
5.30 pm Closing remarks

POSTERS PROGRAM

ROOM ENNAT LÉGER (BASEMENT)

1 - Larisa Avram & Martine Coene Acquisition of auxiliaries and
determiners in early child romanian
2 - Sigal Uziel-Karl Early morphological development: Evidence from
the acquisition of verb morphology in child Hebrew
3 - Jacqueline Van Kampen Bootstraps for below two
4 - Joost van de Weijer The importance of single-word utterances for
early word recognition
5 - Karine Duvignau De la métaphore analogique verbale à
l'acquisition précoce du lexique: pour la mise au point d'un outil
d'acquisition du lexique des verbes basé sur l'analogie


ROOM ANDRÉ FROSSARD (BASEMENT)

6 - Marina Arabatzi, Laurence Chillier, Stéphane Cronel-Ohayon,
Thierry Deonna, Sébastien Dubé, Ulrich Frauenfelder, Cornélia Hamann,
Luigi Rizzi, Michal Starke & Pascal Zesiger
The acquisition of French pronouns in normal children and in children
with specific language impairment (SLI)
7 - Valentina Jacob & Laura D'Odorico
Prosodical and lexical aspects of maternal linguistic input to
late-talking toddlers. A study in the second year of life
8 - Pascal Zesiger, Marie-thérèse Le Normand, Marina Arabatzi,
Laurence Chillier, Thierry Deonna, Sébastien Dubé, Ulrich
Frauenfelder, Cornélia Hamann, Sébastien Cronel-Ohayon, Luigi Rizzi &
Michal Starke
Development and production of morphosyntactic categories in French
speaking children with SLI
9 - Mirco Fasolo & Laura D'Odorico
Vocabulary composition of late-talking children: a longitudinal
research from eigtheen to thirty months of age
10 - Alessandra Assanelli, Nicoletta Salerni & Fabia Franco
Linguistic delay and gestural communication
11 - Karla McGrégor & Nina Capone Contributions of genetic,
environmental, and health-related factors to the acquisition of early
gestures and words: A longitudinal case study of quadruplets


ROOM GEORGES LYVET (BASEMENT)

12 - Susan Ellis Weismer, Virginia Marchman & Julia Evans
Continuity of lexical-grammatical development in typical and late
talking toddlers
13 - Paul Fletcher, Twila Tardif, Zhang Zhi-yiang & Liang Wei-Lan
Early lexical learning in mandarin evidence from parent report
14 - Marc Bornstein & Annick De Houwer
Lexical knowledge at 13 months: a study of Dutch and French bilingual
and monolingual children based on the MacArthur CDI
15 - Elena Nicoladis
Choosing the right words for the context: Evidence from
Chinese-English bilinguals
16 - Florence Labrell, Dominique Bassano, Christian Champaud,
Philippe Bonnet, F. Le Metayer, S. Chemlal
Une comparaison entre production spontanée et rapports parentaux: le
lexique de production à 30 mois


REGISTRATION
For further information see
http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/ela2001/home.html or contact Sophie
Kern: sophie.kern at ish-lyon.cnrs.fr