37.371, Calls: UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 37.371, Calls: UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition (United Kingdom)

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Date: 26-Jan-2026
From: Juliana Gerard [j.gerard at ulster.ac.uk]
Subject: UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition


Full Title: UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition
Short Title: UK-WGLA
Theme: The Role of Animacy in Language Acquisition and Impact in
Language Acquisition

Date: 19-Jun-2026 - 20-Jun-2026
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Juliana Gerard
Meeting Email: j.gerard at ulster.ac.uk
Web Site: https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2026

Call for Papers:
Workshop details:
The workshop will provide a dedicated UK venue for theory-driven
generative acquisition research, bringing together scholars working on
syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and their interfaces in
child language.
Abstract deadline: 1 March, 2026, 11:59pm AOE
500 words, with one additional page permitted for tables, figures,
examples, and references.
Submit abstracts via OpenReview at
https://openreview.net/group?id=UK-WGLA/2026
Invited speaker: Professor Rushen Shi (Université du Québec à
Montréal)
Presentation types:
- Talks (20 minutes + discussion)
- Posters
Special Sessions:
1. The role of animacy in language acquisition
2. Impact in language acquisition
See further details on the special sessions at
https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/
We also welcome submissions on core generative acquisition topics,
including but not limited to:
- Binding and anaphora
- Movement, locality, and constraints
- Feature acquisition (φ-features, animacy, case, person)
- Null arguments and object drop
- Control, finiteness, and clause structure
- Learnability and representational change
- Cross-linguistic variation in A/A-bar dependencies
- Syntax–semantics and syntax–pragmatics interfaces
- Experimental and computational approaches to generative questions
Registration will be free of charge.



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