PROGRAM & PRE-REGISTRATION for CLRF-2004

[Eve V. Clark]

APRIL 16-17, 2004
CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM
CORDURA HALL
STANFORD

               CONSTRUCTIONS IN 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 islnds' in early constructions?  Which construc-
        tions 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?

FRIDAY 16 APRIL - OPENING PANEL WITH ADELE GOLDBERG,
   PETER CULICOVER, & IVAN SAG

SATURDAY 17 APRIL - PAPERS AND POSTER SESSION

For details, check the CLRF-2004 website:

      www-csli.stanford.edu/~clrf


REGISTRATION - Pre-register before March 20, 2004:

1. Preregistration:
        $50 for non-students
        $20 for students

   Send cheque made out to "CLRF-2004" by March 20th, 2004, to:
             CLRF-2004,
             Department of Linguistics,
             Stanford University,
             Stanford, CA 94305-2150,
             USA

   Please include your name, affiliation, and email address.


2. Walk-in registration: $65 for non-students, $30 for students.
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