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ling.uni-potsdam.de>GALA' 99 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 1999 University of Potsdam, Germany September 10-12, 1999 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 10th September - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GALA '99 Registration: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8am - 2pm in the foyer of Building 8. This is the building where all plenary and poster sessions take place. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.30-10.00: Welcoming Remarks - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.00-11.00: Plenary Session Stephen Crain: Rethinking the Continuity Hypothesis (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00-11.30: Coffee Break - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 11.30-12.00 Bart Hollebrandse: Temporal dependencies: complement and relative clauses compared 12.00-12.30 Gennaro Chierchia, Maria Teresa Guasti & Andrea Gualmini: Early omission of articles and the syntax/semantics map - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 11.30-12.00 Rosalind Thornton: VP ellipsis: infinitives not an option 12.00-12.30 Petra Gretsch: Are wh-elements really optional in early question acquisition? The case of wh-drop against focal ellipsis - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.30-2.00: Lunch /Poster Session I (Building 8: Foyer) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 2.00-2.30 Zvi Penner, Karin Wymann & Petra Schulz Specific language impairments revisited: Parallelism vs. deviance 2.30-3.00 Spyridoula Varlokosta: Asymmetries in the acquisition of pronominal reference in normal and SLI children 3.00-3.30 Christer Platzack: The vulnerable C-domain - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 2.00-2.30 David LeBlanc: 'Parameter setting' and the minimalist program 2.30-3.00 Susan M. Powers: Pre-functional merge structures 3.00-3.30 William Snyder, Thomas Roeper, Kazuko Hiramatsu, Stephanie Tyburski & Matthew Saccoman: Language acquisition in a minimalist framework: Root compounds, merger, and the syntax-morphology interface - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.30-4.00: Coffee Break - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 4.00-4.30 Linda Escobar & Anna Gavarro: The acquisition of Catalan clitics and its implications for complex verb structure 4.30-5.00 Mireia Llinas-Grau, William Snyder, Eva Bar-Shalom & Merce Coll-Alfonso: Telicity, word order, and tense in early Russian and Catalan - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 4.00-4.30 Peter Coopmans & Sergey Avrutin: A syntax-discourse perspective on the acquisition of reflexives in Dutch 4.30-5.00 Aafke Hulk & Natascha M�ller: Crosslinguistic influence at the interface between syntax and pragmatics - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.00-6.00: Plenary Session Celia Jacubowitz: Functional Categories in (Ab)normal Language Acquisition (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 11th September - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00-10.00: Plenary Session Virginia Valian: Input, Innateness, and Learning (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.00-10.30: Coffee Break - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 10.30-11.00 Barbara H�hle, J�rgen Weissenborn, Anja Ischebeck & Michaela Schmitz: Prosodic bootstrapping into language specific word order 11.00-11.30 Elizabeth K. Johnson & Peter W. Jusczyk: When speech cues count more than statistics 11.30-12.00 Joao Costa & M. Joao Freitas: On the representation of nasal vowels: Evidence from Portuguese children's data - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 10.30-11.00 Jeannette C. Schaeffer & Lisa Matthewson: On determiner choice in English child language and St'at'imcets 11.00-11.30 Misha Becker: The acquisition of copulas 11.30-12.00 Lynn Santelmann: The acquisition of determiners in child Swedish: Interactions in prosodic and syntactic constraints - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session :C Building 8, Room 0.58 10.30-11.00 Unyierie Angela Idem: Place of articulation as a variability factor in interlanguage phonology 11.00-11.30 Joe Pater, Masahiko Komatsu & Wolf Wikeley: The perceptual acquisition of Thai phonology by English speakers: Evidence for underspecification of predictable features? 11.30-12.00 Eunjin Oh: Second-language acquisition of degree of CV coarticulation - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.00- 2.00: Lunch /Poster Session II (Building 8: Foyer) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 2.00-2.30 Janet Grijzenhout & Sandra Joppen : The lack of onsets in German child phonology 2.30-3.00 Ioanna Kappa: Consonant harmony in phonological development 3.00-3.30 Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines Acquisition of floating segments in a constraint-based phonology : the case of liaison in French - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 2.00-2.30 Cathy Fragman: The spontaneous production of relative clauses in two French children 2.30-3.00 Adriana A. Alvarez: Acquisition of Spanish causative constructions 3.00-3.30 Theodore Marinis : Acquiring the possessive construction in modern Greek - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session :C Building 8, Room 0.58 2.00-2.30 Adrianna Belletti & Cornelia Hamann Ca on fait pas! On the L2-acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages 2.30-3.00 Julia Herschensohn: The accidental infinitive: Missing inflection in L2 French 3.00-3.30 Antonella Sorace: On the "primacy of strong pronouns": selective optionality in L2 ultimate attainment and L1 attrition - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.30-4.00: Coffee Break - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.00-5.00: Plenary Session J�rgen Meisel: On the Possibility of Becoming a Monolingual but Competent Speaker (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.00 Dinner on board MS Cecilienhof - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 12th September - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00-10.00: Plenary Session Roberta Golinkoff Breaking the Language Barrier: How Babies Do It and Scientists Study It (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.00-10.30: Coffee Break - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 10.30-11.00 Katharina K�hler: Topicalization in root infinitives 11.00-11.30 Inge Lasser: The notion of "grammaticality" in language acquisition theory 11.30-12.00 Nina Hyams: The aspectual nature of root non-finite clauses in child language - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 10.30-11.00 Irene Kraemer: An interface approach to the comprehension of specific indefinites 11.00-11.30 Julien Musolino & Stephen Crain: Not just any learnability problem 11.30-12.00 Wenda Bergsma: Children's interpretation of Dutch sentences with the focus particle 'alleen' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.00-12.30: Snack - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session A: Building 9, Room 1.05 12.30-1.00 Ute Bohnacker: Root infinitives in bilingual Icelandic-English 1.00-1.30 Vaijayanthi Sarma: Case and agreement: The issue of non-finite sentences in acquisition - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session B: Building 9, Room 1.14 12.30-1.00 Maaike Verrips: What do children know about implicit arguments? 1.00-1.30 Carla Soares: The Acquisition of D, AGRs, T and C: additional evidence - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.30-2.30: Plenary Session Thomas Roeper How Acquisition Theory Refines Minimalism (Building 8: Auditorium Maximum) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternate Papers - --------------- Bernadette Plunkett: Null topics and Wh-interrogatives in Child French Lucienne Rasetti: Some notes on the interpretive properties of null subjects in early French - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poster Session I: Friday, 10th September, 12.30 - 2.00 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Baauw The acquisition of pronominal coreference in Spanish: The clitic-full pronoun distinction and the role of clitic doubling Heiner Drenhaus Acquiring ditransitive verbs in German: Animacy, accusative pronouns, dative DPs and in scrambled DPs Elma Blom On the meaning of root infinitives in child and adult Dutch Tania Ionin & Ken Wexler Verbal inflection differences in Child L1 and L2 acquisition of English Masja Kempen, Steven Gillis & Frank Wijnen Explaining root infinitives in Dutch child language: Intake = output. A computer simulation study Evelien Krikhaar & Marijin van Dijk Quantitative and qualitative dynamics of language development: Prepositions Irene Kraemer Scope of VP operators and scrambling: Late acquisition Julien Musolino Delayed knowledge and the syntax-semantics interface Montserrat Pericot Evidence against transfer in bilingual first language acquisition: The acquisition of adjective-noun/noun-adjective sequences by bilingual Spanish-English and Catalan-English children Christiane Schelletter, Indra Sinka & Michael Garman Case marking and agreement: Bilingual evidence from English, German and Latvian Arhonto Terzi & Kakia Petinou Clitic (mis)placement in delayed language - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poster Session II: Saturday, 11th September, 12.00 - 2.00 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamiko Akita The timing of articulatory gestures in L2 learners of English Larisa Avram Clitic omission in child language and multiple spell-out Ute Bohnacker Early syntactic language differentiation in a successively bilingual child Helen Goodluck & Arhonto Terzi PRO-gating contexts and child and adult comprehension Cornelia Hamann The acquisition of French WH revisited Sharon Peperkamp & Emmanuel Dupoux Prelexical phonological acquisition Koji Sugisaki LF Wh-movement in child Japanese Rosalind Thornton No lack of focus before two Anastasia Maggana Word order patterns on interlanguage: similarities and differences among L2 learners of modern Greek Marlies van der Velde, Cecilia Jacubowitz & Catherine Rigaut The acquisition of nominative and object clitics by two French-speaking children Yang Xiaolu Semantic subsets principle in L1 acquisition of restrictive focus in Chinese Roumyana Slabakova Are complex predicates and N-N compounds part of the same parameter? Spyridoula Varlokosta Clause structure and functional categories in child L2 acquisition: Evidence from modern Greek Mariko Kondo Evidence of stress foot in English speaker's Japanese Petra Schulz, Karin Wymann & Zvi Penner The acquisition of endstate-oriented verbs in normally developing and SLI children in German - manner or endstate bias? Katerina Zombolou (L1)The acquisition of passive voice in Greek. Its empirical research with the experimental method of elicited production - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other information available on the web: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/gala99/ e-mail: gala99Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue