10.468, Confs: Language Acquisition and Breakdown
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Subject: 10.468, Confs: Language Acquisition and Breakdown
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:48:33 +0200
From: Angeliek van Hout <Angeliek.vanHout at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Language Acquistion & Breakdown
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:48:33 +0200
From: Angeliek van Hout <Angeliek.vanHout at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Language Acquistion & Breakdown
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION & LANGUAGE BREAKDOWN
May 28-29
UiL OTS, Utrecht University
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
THURSDAY MAY 27, UiL OTS, Trans 10, room 0.07
5-7 Reception & registration
FRIDAY MAY 28, room to be announced
8.45 - 09.15 Registration
9.15 - 09.30 Opening and welcome by Eric Reuland (Direcetor of UiL
OTS, Utrecht University)
9.30-10.30 "The Vulnerable C-domain"
Christer Platzack, Lund University
10.30-11.10 "The Italian determiner system in normal acquisition,
specific language impairment, and childhood aphasia"
Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani, Anna Maria Chilosi &
Lucia Pfanner,
University of Perugia, Scientific Institute Stella
Maris & University of Pisa
11.10-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.10 "Functional categories and syntactic operations in
(ab)normal language acquisition"
Celia Jakubowicz & Lea Nash
CNRS, Universit Paris 5 & CNRS, Universit Paris 8
12.10-12.50 "The acquisition of event structure in normally
developing and language impaired children in German"
Petra Schulz, Karin Wymann & Zvi Penner, Konstanz
University
12.50-2.30 lunch
2.30-3.30 "Compounding and Inflection in Language Impairment"
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex
3.30-4.10 "Controversies on CP: A comparison of language
acquisition and language impairments in Broca's
aphasia"
Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universitt Dsseldorf
4.10-4.30 tea
4.30-5.10 "Root infinitives and finite sentences: child language
versus agrammatic speech"
Esterella de Roo, HIL, Leiden University
5.10-6.10 "Grammatism: What language breakdown tells us about
language development"
Stephen Crain, University of Maryland
Evening Conference dinner
SATURDAY MAY 29
9.30-10.30 "The Unique Checking Constraint and Morphological
Parameters as an Explanation of Variation over Time
and Language of a Variety of Syntactic Constructions
in Language Acquisition, both Impaired and Normal"
Kenneth Wexler, MIT
10.30-11.10 "The acquisition of complex predicates in Japanese
specifically language-impaired and normally-developing
children"
Shinji Fukuda & Suzy E. Fukuda, McGill University
11.10-11.30 coffee
11.30-12.10 "Comprehension of reversible relative clauses in
specifically language impaired and normally developing
children"
Stavroula Stavraki, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
12.10-12.50 "Morphosyntactic features in the verbal and nominal
domains: a comparison between specifically language
impaired and normally developing Greek children"
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge
12.50-2.30 lunch
2.30-3.30 "The use of ellipsis in aphasic and child
language"
Herman Kolk, Nijmegen University
3.30-4.10 "Verb inflection and verb diversity in three
populations: agrammatic speakers, normally developing
children and children with specific language
impairment"
Roelien Bastiaanse & Gerard Bol, Groningen University
4.10-4.30 tea
4.30-5.10 "Language acquisition and breakdown in Zulu"
Susan Suzman & Heile Jordaan, University of the
Witwatersrand
5.10-6.10 "The neurology of syntax"
Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University
Alternate papers:
"Radical economy in deviant grammar: Deleted Formal Features [Agr and
Relational prep]"
Lamya Abdul-Karim, Eliane Ramos, Thomas Roeper & Harry Seymour
University of Massachusetts
"Verb movement in acquisition and aphasia: Same problem, different
solutions. Evidence from Dutch"
Shalom Zuckerman, Roelien Bastiaanse & Ron van Zonneveld, Groningen University
Registration
Pre-registration fee till May 15th 1999:
participant fl 60 (approx. 27.50 euro)
student fl 20 (approx. 9 euro)
Registration fee at conference venue:
participant fl 85 (approx. 39 euro)
student fl 30 (approx. 14 euro)
Pre-registration can be done on-line on our web site, or by requesting a
registration form by sending an email to: uil-ots at let.uu.nl
Conference venue
UiL OTS is located in downtown Utrecht. Exact location to be announced.
Accommodation
Information on hotel accommodation in Utrecht can be found on our web site.
Conference web site
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/Conferences/LanguageBreakdown/index.htm
Organizers
Sergey Avrutin (Yale University), Marco Haverkort (Groningen University &
Boston University), Angeliek van Hout (Utrecht University), Maaike Verrips
(Utrecht University)
For further information
UiL OTS, Utrecht University
Trans 10
NL-3512 JK Utrecht
Netherlands
Language.Acquisition at let.uu.nl
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