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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:34:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Tracy King <thking at csli.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: CLRF 1997
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:34:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Tracy King <thking at csli.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: CLRF 1997
29th ANNUAL STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM
Center for the Study of Language & Information, Cordura Hall 100
Stanford University -- April 25 - 27, 1997
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/user/clrf
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 25 APRIL
7.00-7.30 pm Registration
7.30 pm Introductory Remarks: Eve V. Clark
7.40 pm Workshop Session: The Pragmatics of Word Learning
Organized by Michael Tomasello (Emory University) & Dare
Baldwin (University of Oregon)
9.45 pm Reception, Cordura Hall Lobby, CSLI
SATURDAY, 26 APRIL
8.30 am - Registration
9.00-10.30 am PAPER SESSION - Chair:
9.00 am Nameera Akhtar (UC Santa Cruz) Characterizing
English-speaking children's knowledge of SVO word order
9.30 am Penelope Brown (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguis-
tics, The Netherlands) Early Tzeltal verbs: evidence for the
acquisition of argument structure
10.00 am Sik Lee Cheung (Tsukuba University, Japan) Causative
verbs in child Cantonese
10.30-11.00 am Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair:
11.00 am Diane Ohala (University of Arizona) Medial cluster
reduction in early child speech
11.30 am Allyson Carter & LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona)
Evidence for adult prosodic representations in weak syllable
omissions of young children
12.00-2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.00-3.00 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair:
2.00 pm Richard P. Meier (University of Texas at Austin)
Motoric constraints on early sign acquisition
2.30 pm Nini Hoiting (Royal Netherlands Institute for the Deaf
"H. D. Guyot", Haren, The Netherlands) Early bilingual develop-
ment in Dutch and Sign Language of the Netherlands: a case study
2.30-3.00 pm Break
3.00 - 4.00 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair:
3.00 pm Karen Emmorey & Judy Reilly (The Salk Institute) The
development of quotation and depicted action: conveying perspec-
tive in ASL
3.30 pm Tataaki Suzuki (University of Hawaii) Children's
comprehension of Japanese passives: a different perspective
4.00-6.00 pm POSTER SESSION
E. Jane Fee & Karen Shaw (Dalhousie University, Canada) More
evidence for the nonuniversality of pitch modifications in
child-directed speech
Kearsy Cormier, Claude Mauk, & Ann Repp (University of Texas at
Austin) Manual babbling in deaf and hearing infants: a longitu-
dinal study
Susan M. Powers (University of Potsdam, Germany) Children's nom-
inals: reduced purpose clauses or innovative compounds?
Karin Stromswold & Kai Zimmerman (Rutgers University) Acquisition
of negation in German
Patricia J. Brooks & Michael Tomasello (Emory University) How
children avoid overgeneralization errors when acquiring transi-
tive and intransitive verbs
Chutatip Chiraporn Yumitani (Bangkok Patana School, Bangkok,
Thailand) The acquisition of the causative alternation in Thai
Robert Bayley, Alicia Alvarez-Calder'n (University of Texas at
San Antonio) & Sandra Schecter (York University, Canada) Tense
and aspect in Mexican-origin children's Spanish: A prototype
account of language attrition
Sirkka Vanttila (University of Oulu, Finland, & UC San Diego)
Coining complex compounds in Finnish
Tania Zamuner & LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) Young
children's production of coda's in different prosodic environ-
ments
SUNDAY, 27 APRIL
8.30 am - Registration
9.30-10.30 am PAPER SESSION - Chair:
9.30 am Maquela Brizuela, Mariela Gil, & Elaine Andersen
(University of Southern California) A discourse and social dis-
tribution analysis of BUENO in the pretend-play of Argentinean
children
10.00 am Martha Crago (McGill University, Canada) & Shanley E.
M. Allen (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Nether-
lands) Issues of complexity in English and Inuktitut child-
directed speech
10.30-11.00 am Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair:
11.00 am Csaba Pleh (Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, & Lerand Eotvos University, Hun-
gary) Early spatial case markers in Hungarian children: a
CHILDES study
11.30 am Twila Z. Tardif (Chinese University of Hong Kong) &
Susan A. Gelman (University of Michigan) Putting the 'Noun Bias'
in context: a comparison of Mandarin and English
12.00 noon D. Geoffrey Hall (University of British Columbia,
Canada) & Susan A. Graham (University of Calgary, Canada) Beyond
mutual exclusivity: children use lexical form class information
to constrain word-referent mapping
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