Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 4, Sept 1-3

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REGISTRATION AND ALL ORAL PRESENTATIONS TO TAKE PLACE IN ALUMNI HALL
400, ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE, located next to the Kelly Library in St.
Joseph street almost to the corner of Queen's park.

Please note that registration is waived for Canadian students invited
to make a presentation and for students from the host institution.


GALANA 4   INSIGHTS FROM CROSS-POPULATION COMPARISON
September 1-3, 2010,  University of Toronto
Final program

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

9:00-9:20 Opening remarks, Alumni Hall 400, St. Michael’s College*

Session 1:
Focus structures

Chair: Daphna Heller
9:20


Nobuaki Akagi, Macquarie University
Takuya Goro, Ibaraki University
Rosalind Thornton, Macquarie University
Children’s interpretations of disjunction in Japanese questions

9:50
Kamil Ud Deen, University of Hawaii at Manoa Napasri Timyam, Kasetsart
University

Reversible quantifiers in adult and child Thai

10:20
Anja Müller, Vanessa Rupp, Petra Schulz,
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Barbara Höhle, Potsdam University

How the understanding of focus particles develops: Evidence from child
German

COFFEE BREAK
10:50


Session 2:
Definitness as a learning space

Chair: Eugenia Suh
11:10
Nao Nakano, Hye-Sun Park &
Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University
Japanese and Korean plurality: A difficult acquisition task

11:40
Tania Ionin, Soondo Baek, Eunah Kim,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heejeong Ko, Seoul National University
Ken Wexler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
That's the meaning: Interpretation of definite and demonstrative
descriptions in L2-English

12:10
Lydia White, Alyona Belikova, McGill University
Paul Hagstrom, Boston University
Tanja Kupisch, University of Hamburg
Öner Özçelik, McGill University
There aren't many difficulties with definiteness: Negative
existentials in the L2 English of Russian and Turkish speakers

LUNCH BREAK
12:40


PLENARY
2:00
Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland
Inside the LAD: Learning in Generative Grammar
COFFEE BREAK
3:00


Session 3:
Number and scope

Chair: Marina Sherkina
3:10
Zhijun Wen, Mari Miyao, Aya Takeda, Wei Chu & Bonnie D. Schwartz,
University of Hawaii

Does linear distance explain L2 (in)sensitivity to agreement
violations in online processing?

3:40
Kristen Syrett & Julien Musolino,
Rutgers University
When the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts: Collectivity,
distributivity, and number

4:10
Lyn Tieu, University of Connecticut

On the tri-ambiguous status of any: The view from child language

Wine-and-cheese POSTER SESSION
4:40-6pm
Location: Fr. Robert Madden Hall, Carr Hall, St. Michael’s College



*ALL ORAL PRESENTATIONS TO TAKE PLACE IN ALUMNI HALL 400, ST.
MICHAEL’S COLLEGE





THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

PLENARY
9:00
Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta
The interface between bilingual development and specific language
impairment
POSTER SESSION
COFFEE BREAK
10:00
Location: Fr. Robert Madden Hall, Carr Hall, St. Michael’s College

Session 4:
Syntax in heritage speaker populations

Chair: Naomi Nagy
11:30
Tanja Kupisch, Dagmar Barton & Giulia Bianchi,
University of Hamburg
Genericity and cross-linguistic influence in adult German-French and
German-Italian

12:00
Teresa Lee, University of Virginia

Korean heritage speakers’ grammatical competence: The acquisition of
unaccusativity

LUNCH BREAK
12:30


Session 5: Pronouns at the interface

Chair: Keren Rice
2:00
Miwa Isobe, Tokyo University of the Arts
Children speaking Japanese can interpret adjunct null subjects while
identifying correct antecedents

2:30
Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University
Isabelle Barrière, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Louise Goyet Université Paris Descartes
Thierry Nazzi, CNRS/LPP, Paris
On the acquisition of implicated presuppositions: Evidence from French
personal pronouns

3:00
Elaine Grolla, University of Sao Paulo
The acquisition of contrastive and non-contrastive anaphoric forms in
Brazilian Portuguese

3:30
Bernadette Plunkett, University of York
The Development of French wh-Clefts and Extraction Type

Coffee Break
4:00


Session 6:
Prosody in a second language

Chair: Jeffrey Steele
4:20
Heather Goad, McGill University

Lydia White, McGill University

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito,                                          The
University of Western Ontario


The L2 acquisition of Spanish plurals by French speakers: constraints
on syllable structure or on higher prosodic structure?
4:50-5:20
Őner Őzçelik, McGill University
L2 acquisition of higher-level prosodic structures and the role of UG

RECEPTION
6:00-7:30
Location: Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall, St. Michael’s College









FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Session 7:
Gender and agreement

Chair: Nelleke Strik
9:00
Sharon Unsworth, Utrecht University
Froso Argyri, University of Edinburgh
Leonie Cornips, Meertens Institute
Aafke Hulk, University of Amsterdam
Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
Ianthi Tsimpli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
On the role of age of onset and input quantity in early child
bilingualism in Greek and Dutch

9:30
Susanne Brouwer,
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Sharon Unsworth Utrecht University
Pim Mak, Utrecht University
Processing grammatical gender in Dutch: Evidence from eye-tracking

10:00
Theres Grüter, Stanford University
Casey Lew-Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anne Fernald, Stanford University
Grammatical gender in L2: Bringing psycholinguistic evidence to bear
on generative accounts

COFFEE BREAK
10:30


Session 8:
Wh-questions across populations

Chair: Maria Cristina Cuervo
10:50
Philippe Prévost, Université François Rabelais
Nelleke Strik, University of Toronto
Laurie Tuller, Université François Rabelais
How derivational complexity interacts with L1 properties, length of
exposure, age of exposure, and input in child L2 acquisition of French
wh-questions

11:20
Petra Schulz, Magdalena Wojtecka, Alisa Blume
& Rebecca Schuler, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Comprehension of exhaustive wh-questions in SLI children – Evidence
for a semantic deficit or delay?

11:50
Sunny Park, Purdue University
Why they do that? Lack of T-to-C movement by Korean-English bilingual
children

12:20
Ting Xu & William Snyder, University of Connecticut

Children’s 2Aux negative questions: Elicited production versus
spontaneous speech

LUNCH
1:00
Business meeting

Session 9:
Input and frequency in grammar development

Chair: Chandan Narayan
2:30
Carolina Holtheuer, Universidad de Chile
Karen Miller, Pennsylvania State University
Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University
Ser and estar: the role of adjective type and animacy in acquisition

3:00
Helen Hefter & Walcir Cardoso, Concordia University
The L1 acquisition of sC onset clusters: Comparing the effects of
markedness and input frequency

3:30
Yvan Rose & Julie Brittain,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Grammar matters: Evidence from the metrical and inflectional
development in Northern East Cree

4:00
Elizabeth C. Goodin-Mayeda, University of Houston Jeffrey Renaud,
University of Iowa
Jason Rothman, University of Florida
Optimality Theoretic L2 reranking and the Constraint Fluctuation
Hypothesis

COFFEE BREAK
4:30



PLENARY

4:45
John Archibald, University of Victoria
The interface of L2 phonetics and phonology
ALTERNATES

Anamaria Bentea, Université de Genève, Subject vs Object Relatives:
What Can French and Romanian Children Tell Us About Their Acquisition?

Egor  Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University, Local cues in locative
constructions: learning curve with and without case morphology

Nikolay Slavkov, University of Ottawa, Derivational Complexity Effects
in L2 Acquisition

Tetsuya Sano, Meiji Gakuin University, More observations on the scope
interactions in L1 acquisition of Japanese

Will Dalton, McGill University, Allophony in the L2: Acquiring High
Vowel Allophones in Quebec French



POSTER SESSION 1, Wednesday September 1st, 4:40

Masaaki Kamiya, Hamilton College & Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University
in Tokyo, Japanese children’s interpretations of pragmatically derived
meanings of numerals and acquisition processes

Peng Zhou, Macquarie University, Stephen Crain , Macquarie
University ,  Liqun Gao, Beijing Language and Culture University &
Likan Zhan, Beijing Language and Culture University, The role of
prosody in children’s focus identification

Petra  Hendriks & Ruth  Koops van 't Jagt,  University of Groningen,
Can you be more specific? Acquiring specificity in comprehension and
production

Anna  Gavarró, Arnau  Cunill, Míriam  Muntané, Marc Reguant,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalan child relative contrasts as
a processing effect

Silvia Perpiñán, The University of Western Ontario, On wh-movement,
Resumption, and Islands in L2 Spanish

Annie  Gagliardi & Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland, The necessity
of class internal regularities in the acquisition of Tsez noun classes

Yu-da Lai, MingDao University, Chien-jer Lin,  Indiana University,
Chun-yin  Chen,  National Taiwan Normal University, The Timing of
Sensitivity to Structural and Non-Structural Information in Nonnative
Reading

Yasaman Rafat, Bethany MacLeod, University of Toronto, The effect of
orthography on the formation of underlying representations in L2
Spanish

Jacqueline van Kampen & Rianne Schippers, Utrecht University,
Prepositions and particles in the acquisition of Dutch

Egor  Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University, Local cues in locative
constructions: learning curve with and without case morphology

Irina Marinescu, University of Toronto, Duration cues and perceptual
strategies of cue weighting in L2

Jill de Villiers, Ann Nordmeyer, Megan Kravitz, Smith College,
Maintaining a Point of View across multiple pronoun switches

Kyoko Yamakoshi, Senshu University/Harvard University, The Acquisition
of Some/Every Interaction with Negation in Japanese

Anahi Alba de la Fuente, University of Ottawa, Spanish clitic cluster
constraints: Syntax and learnability

Anamaria Bentea, Université de Genève, Subject vs Object Relatives:
What Can French and Romanian Children Tell Us About Their Acquisition?

Jinsun Choe, University of Hawaii, Acquisition of Korean Causatives:
linking with directness of causation

Karen Froud, University of Columbia New York, Kenneth Wexler, Vina
Tsakali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Late maturation of
Raising in English: evidence from typically developing children

Koichi Otaki, University of Connecticut, Noun Raising in Child English

Koji Sugisaki, Mie University, Configurational Structure in Child
Japanese: New Evidence

Larissa Nossalik, McGill University, L2 acquisition of coercion

Tania Leal-Méndez, The University of Iowa, Feature Interpretability in
L2 Acquisition: Evidence from resumptive pronoun use in L2 English

Naoko Sawada, Nanzan University & Keiko Murasugi, Nanzan University &
University of Connecticut, A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the
'Erroneous' Genitive Subjects: Underspecification of Tense in Child
Grammar Revisited



POSTER SESSION  2, Thursday September 2, 10:00
Silvina Montrul, James  Yoon, Eunah Kim, The on-line processing of
Binding Principles A and B in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from Eye
tracking

Inmaculada Gomez-Soler, The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, The L1 Acquisition of Gustar: Evidence against Maturation

Ruggero Montalto, Angeliek van Hout & Petra Hendriks,  University of
Groningen, Developmental differences in the ordering of Italian near-
synonymous quantifiers

Noriko Yoshimura, University of Shizuoka, Mineharu Nakayama, The Ohio
State University, Dissociating Overt Wh-movement from LF
Interpretation in L2 Acquisition

Misha Becker & Bruno Estigarribia, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Drawing Inferences about Novel Raising and Control Verbs

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, René Kager, Elise de Bree, Annemarie Kerkhoff,
Sandra den Boer, Utrecht University, Identity avoidance in speech
segmentation: a universal or a matter of speech input?Evidence from
artificial language learning experiments with infants

Nikolay Slavkov, University of Ottawa, Derivational Complexity Effects
in L2 Acquisition

Raquel Santos, Cristiane Silva, University of São Paulo, Allophony and
the acquisition of voice assimilation in Brazilian Portuguese

Shannon Barrios, William Idsardi, Nan Jiang, University of Maryland,
When representation and processing diverge: Spanish-dominant
bilinguals’ asymmetrical sensitivity

Tetsuya Sano, Meiji Gakuin University, More observations on the scope
interactions in L1 acquisition of Japanese

Tilbe Goksun, Temple University, Tom Roeper, University of
Massachusetts, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University, Roberta
Golinkoff, University of Delaware, Nounphrase Ellispsis within
Verbphrase Ellipsis: Hidden pro licenses context reference

Hakima Guella, Institute for Cognitive Sciences, Petra Sleeman,
University of Amsterdam, Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University,
Specificity effects in L2 determiner acquisition: UG or Pragmatic
egocentrism?

Bart Hollebrandse, Fabrizio Arosio, Wolfgang Dressler, Austrian
Academy of Sciences, Acquiring Tense: a crosslinguistic comparison in
17 languages

Will Dalton, McGill University, Allophony in the L2: Acquiring High
Vowel Allophones in Quebec French

Alma Veenstra, Sanne Berends, Angeliek van Hout, University of
Groningen, All pronouns are not acquired equally in Dutch: Elicitation
of object and quantitative pronouns

 Alyona Belikova, McGill University, Evidence against indirect
negative evidence

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