21.1971, Confs: Language Acquisition, Typology/USA

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Subject: 21.1971, Confs: Language Acquisition, Typology/USA

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Date: 23-Apr-2010
From: Shannon Hoerner < shoerner at umd.edu >
Subject: Mayfest 2010
 

	
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:14:10
From: Shannon Hoerner [shoerner at umd.edu]
Subject: Mayfest 2010

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Mayfest 2010 

Date: 08-May-2010 - 09-May-2010 
Location: College Park, MD, USA 
Contact: Shannon Hoerner 
Contact Email: shoerner at umd.edu 
Meeting URL: http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

Every year the graduate students of the Linguistics Department of the University
of Maryland organize a linguistics workshop focusing on a different aspect of
language. The goal of this 17th annual Mayfest is to bring researchers together
for a lively interdisciplinary exchange that offers new angles for approaching
the relation between learnability and typology.

Talks at this year's workshop will center on issues raised by cross-linguistic
variation for theories of language acquisition and vice versa. In particular we
are interested in fostering discussion about defining the space of possible
languages and how learners use constraints on this space to acquire a particular
grammar. Talks will address the strengths and weakness of theories of
'principles and parameters' and linguistic universals in accounting for the
range and limits of grammatical variation, in addition to the degree to which
conclusions from this work converge with those from the study of language
acquisition and change.





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