8.337, Confs: Language Acquisition, Minimalism
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Subject: 8.337, Confs: Language Acquisition, Minimalism
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:58:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: Antonella Sorace <antonell at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Conf: Language Acquisition (GALA '97)
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:18:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "G. Alexandrova" <s060054 at aix1.uottawa.ca>
Subject: Minimalism
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:58:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: Antonella Sorace <antonell at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Conf: Language Acquisition (GALA '97)
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International Conference
Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing
GALA '97
4th - 6th April 1997
Edinburgh City Chambers
---- Plenary speakers ----
Melissa Bowerman
Nina Hyams
Peter Jusczyk
Steven Pinker
Bonnie D. Schwartz
Paul Smolensky
The conference will take place at Edinburgh City Chambers, located on
the historic Royal Mile in the centre of Edinburgh. Information about
registration and accommodation in Edinburgh can be found at the GALA 97
www site: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/
The Spring Meeting of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain will
be held in Edinburgh immediately after GALA '97 (April 7th - 9th), in
Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh.
Organisers: Antonella Sorace (Applied Linguistics), Caroline Heycock
(Linguistics), Richard Shillcock (Cognitive Science).
Address for email correspondence: gala97 at ling.ed.ac.uk
The programme consists of three full days containing plenaries by the 6
invited speakers, 40 20-minute talks, and 80 posters. Details of posters
can be found at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/.
Friday 4th April
8.30-9.30, Registration (continues throughout the day)
9.30-10.00, Opening Remarks
10.00-11.00 Plenary session
Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics:
Predicate semantics and lexicosyntactic development:
a crosslinguistic perspective
11.00-11.30, Break
11.30-12.00:
David Lightfoot, Maryland:
Catastrophes and "cue-based" learning
Ocke-Schweren Bohn & Linda Polka, Aarhus and McGill:
The nature and significance of perceptual biases in infant vowel
perception
12.00-12.30:
Susan Powers & Julien Musolino, Potsdam & Maryland:
Precursor relative clauses in the acquisition of English
Suzanne Curtin, Heather Goad, & Joe Pater, McGill, Southern California
and British Columbia
On the acquisition of Thai VOT contrasts by native speakers of English
12.30-2.00, Lunch
2.00-2.30
Gert Westermann, Edinburgh:
A constructivist neural network learns the past tense of English verbs
Shanley Allen, Max Planck
A discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in
early null arguments
2.30-3.00
Mark Seidenberg, Joseph Allen, & Morten Christiansen, Southern
California= : Language acquisition: learning and applying
probabilistic constraints
Lamya Abdul-Mareem, Thomas Roeper, & Jill deVilliers, UMass, UMass, &
Smith College: LF-Feature movement and negative islands in
acquisition
3.00-3.30
Joseph Allen, Southern California:
Probabilistic constraints in acquisition
Kenneth Drozd, Max Planck:
The syntax and semantics of "no" and negative constituents in child
English
3.30-4.00, Break
4.00-4.30
Boping Yuan, Cambridge:
An asymmetry of null subjects and null objects in Chinese speakers' L2
English
Matthew Saxton, Royal Holloway, London:
Corrective input in child language acquisition
4.30-5.00
Philippe Prevost, McGill
Subjects in second language acquisition: evidence for the truncation
hypothesis
Lourdes de Leon, Reed College:
Why verbs are learnt before nouns in Tzotzil (Mayan): the role of
caregiver input and of verb-specific semantics
5.00-6.00, Plenary Session:
Bonnie D. Schwartz, University of Durham:
The second language instinct
7.00-9.00, Reception
Saturday 5th April
9.00-10.00, Plenary Session:
Nina Hyams, UCLA:
Language development at the interface
10.00-10.30, Rita Manzini & Anna Roussou, UCL/Florence & Bangor:
Null arguments in early child grammars: a minimalist approach
Laura Bosch & Nuria Sebasti=E1n, Barcelona:
Factors in native-language discrimination at four months: phonological
proximity and bilingual exposure
10.30-11.00, Break
11.00-11.30
Linda Escobar, Sergio Baauw, & Bill Philip, Massachusetts at Boston &
Utrecht The wide scope interpretation of postverbal quantifier
subjects: QR in the early grammar of Spanish
C. Frenck-Mestre, Provence:
Examining second language reading: an on-line look
11.30-12.00
Silvina A. Montrul, McGill:
Transitivity alternations in Turkish as a second language
Tamar Kaplan, Iowa:
General learning strategies and the process of L2 acquisition
12.00-2.00, Poster display (Mandela Room and Councillors' Lounge) and
Lunch
2.00-3.00, Plenary Session:
Steven Pinker, MIT:
Words and rules
3.00-3.30, Helen Goodluck, Ottawa:
Relative clauses in the speech of Adam
S. Wauquier-Gravelines, C. Jakubowicz, P. Sauzet, C. Durand, &
S. Franc, CNRS Paris 5, CNRS Paris 5, CNRS Paris 8, CNRS Paris 5, &
Hospital R. Debray:
Phonological knowledge in developmental language disorders: "Liaison
ench a=EEn=E9e" and derivations in French
3.30-4.00
Cornelia Hamann & Kim Plunkett, Geneva & Oxford:
Subject omission in child Danish
Sarah Barrett, Cambridge:
The prototype conversion model and its role in the developing system
4.00-4.30, Break
4.30-5.00
Arild Hestvik & Bill Philip, Bergen & Utrecht:
Chain condition errors and lexical feature acquisition in Norwegian
children
Seyhun Topbas & Handan Kopkalli-Yavuz, Anadolu:
The onset of a linguistic system: is there evidence from the
acquisition of final devoicing in Turkish?
5.00-6.00, Plenary Session:
Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins:
Universal grammar and learnability in Optimality Theory
9.30-1.00am, Ceilidh (Dancing!)
Sunday 6th April
9.00-10.00, Plenary Session:
Peter Jusczyk, Johns Hopkins:
Constraining the search for structure in the input
10.00-10.30
Michelle Aldridge, Robert D. Borsley, Susan Clack, & Gwennan Creunant,
Bob Morris Jones, Bangor & Aberystwyth:
The acquisition of NPs in Welsh
European Room
Elizabeth Purnell, Indiana:
The missing link: prosodic marking in the two-word stage
10.30-11.00, Break
11.00-11.30
David LeBlanc, Tilburg:
Gradualness effects in the acquisition of null subjects: arguments
from a theory of economy of projection
Stefanie Jannedy, Ohio State:
Development of "narrow focus" prosody competence
11.30-12.00
Jeannette Schaeffer, MIT:
On the acquisition of object placement in Dutch and Italian
Conxita Lle=F3, Hamburg:
Filler syllables, proto-articles and early prosodic constraints in
Spanish and German.
12.00-2.00, Poster display (Mandela Room and Councillors' Lounge) and
Lunch
2.00-2.30
Nigel Duffield, Philippe Pr=E9vost, & Lydia White, McGill:
Adult L2 knowledge of clitic placement: evidence from sentence matching
Simon Kirby & James Hurford, Edinburgh:
The evolution of incremental learning
2.30-3.00
Liliana Sanchez, Carnegie Mellon:
Why do bilingual Spanish and Spanish in contact varieties drop
definite objects?
Aude Billard & Gillian Hayes, Edinburgh:
"Allo Kazam, do you follow me?": Learning to speak through imitation
for social robots
3.00-3.30
Marianne Starren, Max Planck:
>>From scope adverbials to syntactic structure: the structural
organisation oftemporality in learner discourse
Robert Clark, Edinburgh:
Language acquisition and implications for language change: a computer
model
3.30-4.00, Break
4.00-4.30
Alison Henry, John Wilson, and Cathy Finlay, Ulster at Jordanstown:
Language acquisition and optionality
Madelyn Kissock & Mark Hale, Harvard/Maine & Concordia:
Nonphonological triggers for renewed access to "phonetic" perception
4.30-5.30, Plenary Session:
Title to be announced
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 01:18:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "G. Alexandrova" <s060054 at aix1.uottawa.ca>
Subject: Minimalism
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Open Linguistics Forum '97: PROGRAM
web page: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~s060054/ (aix1=www)
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Host: Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Theme: *** Challenges of Minimalism ***
On the Way to Chapter 4 and Beyond
Content of presentations:
Versions of Minimalism (1992/3 - 1995) should be applied to one,
preferably more languages. Papers on the languages of South-East Europe
would be highly appreciated. Authors are encouraged to pursue a comparison
between versions of Minimalism and in contrast to earlier stages of the GB
model. They should provide an objective analytical assessment of
theoretical (dis)advantages and empirical justification.
Well-motivated predictions re the yet unwritten Chapter 5 of the
Minimalist Program are especially valued.
Keynote Speakers:
Mark Baker *** Denis Bouchard *** Howard Lasnik
McGill University ****** UQAM *****University of Connecticut
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OLF Report:
- approximately 50% of received submissions accepted for 20 min
talks
- approximately 20% invited for participation in interactive
(=poster sessions)
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- an average of 3 reviews per submission
- approximately 36% of the reviews included feedback for authors
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- authors of all papers invited for 20 min presentations have
confirmed participation
- two cancellations of poster participation to date - not included
in the program below
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Acknowledgements:
- the LINGUIST list has proven to be our most efficient ally in
publicizing the conference
- special thanks to the OLF reviewers (names to appear in the
OLF'97 conference booklet acknowledgements) for accepting the
proposed format of reviewing despite time constraints
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, March 21
Location: Faculty of Arts, 2nd floor, Lecture Hall 257
12:00 - 13:00 Mark Baker, McGill University
Topic: Adjectives, Thematic Hierarchies and "the Spirit of the
Minimalist Program"
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10 min break
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13:10 - 13:40 Galia Alexandrova, University of Ottawa
Topic: Upgraded Control in a Government-Free Model
13:40 - 14:10 Artemis Alexiadou, ZAS Berlin, and Elena Anagnostopoulou,
University of Tilburg
Topic: Covert Feature Movement and the Placement of Arguments
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10 min break
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14:20 - 14:50 Virginia Motapanyane, University of New Brunswick, St. John
Topic: A Multiple Spec Analysis of Focus Constructions
14:50 - 15:20 Huba Bartos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Topic: Subjective and Objective Agreement in Hungarian
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10 min break
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15:30 - 16:00 Adam Szczegielniak, Harvard University
Topic: Polish Optional Movement in the Minimalist Program
16:00 - 16:30 Takashi Toyoshima, Kyoto University/Cornell University
Topic: Head to Spec Movement Hypothesis: Strictly Cyclic Movement
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30 min break
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17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session: Faculty of Arts, 4th floor
1. Aniko Csirmaz, Eotvos Lorand University
Topic: pro in Inflected infinitivals and DPs in Hungarian
2. Miriam Engelhardt, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Topic: Clitic Doubling as Agreement in GB and Minimalism
3. Sharon Armon Lotem, University of Maryland/Tel Aviv University
Topic: Checking on CHECKING
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18:30: Buffet dinner, Department of Linguistics
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Saturday, March 22
Location: Faculty of Arts, 4th floor, Lecture Hall 435
9:00 - 10:00 Denis Bouchard, UQAM
Integral Minimalism: Contingent Properties of Interfaces and the
Nature of C<HL>
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10 min break
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10:10 - 10:40 Hiroyuki Ura, Osaka University
Topic: Grammatical Relations/Functions in the Minimalist Framework
10:40 - 11:10 Edit Doron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Caroline
Heycock, Universities of Edinburgh & Delaware
Topic: Minimalist Multiple Subjects
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15 min break
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11:25 - 11:55 Ruriko Kawashima, UBC
Topic: Reducing the EPP to a Strong D-Feature of T.Numerals and
Their Associated DPs in Japanese
11:55 - 12:25 Julie Anne Legate & Carolyn Smallwood, University of Toronto
Topic: The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for
Strong Case Features
12:25 - 12:55 Ning Zhang, University of Toronto
Topic: Strong Q and Multiple Checkings
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5 min break
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13:00 - 13:50 Poster Session
1. Masayuki Oishi, Tohoko Gakuin University
Topic: Reducing Procrastinate to Feature Strength
2. Masao Ochi, University of Connecticut
Topic: Move or Attract: Attract-F and the Pied-Piping Chain
3. Charles D. Yang, MIT
Topic: Minimal Computation
4. Juan Romero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Topic: A/A' Movement and Attract
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10 min break
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14:00 - 15:00 Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut
Topic: On Feature Strength: 3 Minimalist Approaches to Overt
Movement
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15 min break
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15:15 - 15:45 Kerstin Hoge, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, UK
Topic: That-Trace Effects in English and Yiddish
15:45 - 16:15 Hisatsugu Kitahara, UBC
Topic: Syntactic Operations and Binding Relations
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15 min break
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16:30 - 17:00 Andrew Simpson, UCLA/Frankfurt
Topic: Wh-Constructions and the Locality of Feature -Checking
17:00 - 17:30 Norvin Richards, MIT
Topic: Featural Cyclicity and the Ordering of Multiple Specifiers
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18:30 Conference dinner (plus chamber music) at the NOVOTEL
(up to $20.00/$30.00 CAD, for students/non-students; e-mail registration
for discount prices or on-site registration; on-site payment)
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Sunday, March 23
Location: Faculty of Arts, 2nd floor, Lecture Hall 257
9:00 - 9:30 Javier Gutierrez and Luis Silva, UCLA
Topic: Demonstratives in a Feature-Based Theory of Syntax
9:30 - 10:00 Bernadette Plunkett,York University, U.K.
Topic: Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting Interrogative Variation
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5 min break
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10:05 - 10:35 Satoshi Oku, University of Connecticut
Topic: A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy
10:35 - 11:05 Masanori Nakamura, Senshu University
Topic: On the Role of Interpretability
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5 min break
11:10 - 12:00 Recap session: MP Chapter 5 according to OLF'97
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Alternates for 20min talks:
1. John Whitman, Cornell University
Topic: Kayne 1994, p. 143, fn.3
2. Susan M. Powers, University of Potsdam
Topic: A Minimalist Account of Phrase Structure Acquisition
3. Eun-Young Yi, Cornell University
Topic: Iterated Projections vs. Multiple Specifiers
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Chairs of sessions:TBA
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL DISCUSSION
UNDER THE AEGIS OF INTELLECTUAL TOLERANCE
THE OLF ORGANIZERS
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Please consult the OLF web page & links ibid. for:
-preregistration (by March 10th) & on-site registration fees
-accommodation
(NB! OLF'97 contract with the NOVOTEL:
$80.00 for single/double rooms;
$90.00 for triple rooms)
-tourist information about Ottawa&area
-useful phone numbers/tips
etc.
Inquiries:
Galia Alexandrova, Co-ordinator E-mail:s060054 at aix1.uottawa.ca
Department of Linguistics Fax: (613) 562-5141
University of Ottawa 70 Laurier East St., Ottawa ON K1N 6N5
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