Workshop
Tom Roeper
roeper at linguist.umass.edu
Wed Apr 28 21:05:18 UTC 2004
UUSLAW May 1, 2004
University of Massachusetts/ University of Connecticut/Smith College
Language Acquisition Workshop
Place: Campus center room 104, Elm Street, Smith College, Northampton
Mass (see map)
Parking:
Free on most streets around campus, in campus parking lots or in Parking
garage on Rte 10 (see map)
Schedule
9.30 Uri Strauss, U.Mass. “"Maximality: Acquisition issues"
10 Natalia Rakhlin, U.Conn "The Acquisition of the Definite and
Indefinite Determiners"
10.30 Joanne Lee-Terry (U.Conn) “Syntactic Bootstrapping: A viable
strategy for Mandarin verb learners”
11 Coffee break
11.20 Sarah Hulsey, Valentine Hacquard and Andrea Gualmini (MIT)
"Isomorphism is not the answer. Give context a chance."
12 Ji-young Kim (U.Conn)"Preschool Children's Use of Discourse Markers"
12.30 lunch at Campus Center Café (Bring cash! Cheap, varied)
1.30 Conversations: Exchange of new/recent ideas/ideas in progress:
Tim Bryant,(U.Mass),
Gwynne Morrissey(Smith),
Liane Jeschull (U.Mass),
Jill de Villiers, Jacqueline Cahillane & Emily Altreuter(Smith)
2.30 Lauren Swenson (U.Conn) "Do Autistic Children have Lexical Biases:
A Look at the Noun Biases."
2.50 Tom Roeper (U.Mass) and Jill de Villiers (Smith) “Integrating point
of view”
3.30 coffee break
4 Bosook Kang (U.Conn) "A Learnability Puzzle in Acquisition of Scrambling"
4.30 Anna Verbuk (U.Mass)"Acquisition of Supplementary
Expressions and Speaker / Utterance Oriented Adverbs."
5 Michael Wagner (MIT)"Association with `only' and Islandhood”
6 Take-out Chinese dinner at Jill and Peter’s house, 71 Pine street,
Florence (see map).
Please come!
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