Child Language Research Forum 2004 / CALL for PAPERS

[Eve V. Clark]

The next STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM will take place on:

           April 16-17, 2004 (Friday-Sunday)

TOPIC: CONSTRUCTIONS IN EARLY ACQUISITION

        How do children learn constructions--noun phrases, verb phrases, and
        other phrase types?  Do they begin with specific lexical items in a
        construction and use only those?  To what extent do they build from
        'verb islands' or 'noun islands' in early constructions?  Which
        constructions emerge first? What criteria should we use in establishing
        productivity? What makes constructions easy vs. hard to acquire?
        Can children's bases for inferences about the relevant noun or verb
        meanings be identified? Are there consistent patterns across children
        in the acquisition of constructions? Are there differences from one
        verb type to another, or from intransitive to transitive?  Are
        differences attributable to differences in frequencies in child-
        directed speech?  What cross- linguistic comparisons are available?
        Which constructions have been considered in studies of children's
        early syntactic forms?

Abstracts are due on or before January 1, 2004; submitters will be
informed of all decisions by February 15, 2004.

Format for abstracts:

1. one page, double-spaced, font-size 12, with TITLE and ABSTRACT only;
2. one page, with the abstract/poster title, name, affiliation, full
    mailing address, and email.

Submit paper/poster abstracts plus author information BY EMAIL to:
       eclark at psych.stanford.edu,  marked " CLRF-2004" in the header line.

Check the CLRF website for information about registration, hotels,
and any further announcements about the meeting,
www-csli.stanford.edu/~clrf


(Anyone unable to submit by email should send their abstracts and
identifying information to: CLRF-2004, Department of Linguistics,
                             Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460),
                             Stanford University,
                             Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA  )
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