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1. Sabine Iatridou, NELS25 final information package

NELS 25
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

NELS 25 Workshop on Language Acquisition
Sponsored by the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
Meyerson Hall, Room B 3
University of Pennsylvania, October 13, 1994

9:00 Toben Mintz, Elissa Newport & Tom G. Bever, Univ of Rochester:
Distributional regularities of grammatical categories in speech to infants

9:30 Anna Cardinaletti and Michal Starke, Univ of Venice, Univ of Geneva
and Max Planck Berlin: Principle B puzzles are ambiguity problems

10:00 Katherine Demuth, Brown: Markedness and the development of prosodic
structure

10:30 Paula Fikkert, U of Konstanz:Models of acquisition: How to acquire stress

11:30 Bernhard Rohrbacher and Anne Vainikka, Univ of Penn: On German verb
syntax before age 2

12:00 Tetsuya Sano, UCLA: Negation in the acquisition of Japanese and its
implications for universals

12:30 Vaijayanthi Sarma, MIT: How many branches to the syntactic tree?
Disagreements over agreement

1:00 Frank Wijnen, U of Groningen: Incremental acquisition of phrase structure

Alternate: Gary Marcus, Steve Pinker and Leah Larkey, Univ. of Massachusetts
and MIT. Using high density spontaneous speech data to study the acquisition of
tense marking
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NELS 25 Workshop on Language Change
Sponsored by the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
Meyerson Hall, Room B 13
University of Pennsylvania, October 13, 1994

2:00 Katya Zubritskaya, Univ of Penn: Markedness and sound change in
Optimality Theory

2:30 Haike Jacobs, University of Nijmegen: Language change and Optimality
Theory: the evolution of French syllable structure.

3:00 Andrea Calabrese, Harvard: Syncretism phenomena in the clitic systems
of Italian and Sardinian

3:30 Yolanda River-Castillo, U of Nebraska: >From adjectives to determiners:
the phonology-syntax interface in Spanish

4:30 Kai von Fintel, MIT: The formal semantics of grammaticalization

5:00 Eithne Guilfoyle, U of Calgary: Infinitivals and the transparency
principle revisited

5:30 Stefan Frisch, Northwestern: Evidence for economy of projection in
historical change

6:00 Mark D. Arnold, Univ of Maryland Reconsidering notions of economy in
language change: the innovation of periphrastic 'do'

Alternate:Jose Bonneau and Pierre Pica, McGill University and UQUAM
On the development of subordination from Old to New English
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NELS 25
University of Pennsylvania, October 14-16, 1994
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Friday, October 14

9:45 Opening remarks

10:00 Danny Fox, MIT: Derivational economy, QR and semantic interpretation
evidence from VP ellipsis

10:30 Charlotte Reinholtz and Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba:
Quantified NPs in pronominal argument languages

11:00 Cristina Schmitt, University of Maryland: Antecedent contained
deletion meets the copy theory

12:00 Anton Bures, MIT: Clash in a composite model of prosodic structure

12:30 Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley: The consequences of optimization for
underspecification

2:00 Jenny Doetjes, Leiden Univ: Quantification at a distance and iteration

2:30 Jonathan Ginzburg, Univ of Edinburgh: The QVE to some extent defused
and generalized

3:00 Gerhard Jaeger, Arbeitsgruppe Strukturelle Grammatik der MPG: Topic,
focus and weak quantifiers

4:00 Enric Vallduvi and Elisabet Engdahl, Univ of Edinburgh: Information
structure and grammar architecture

4:30 Hamida Demirdache and Lisa Matthewson, U of British Columbia: On the
universality of syntactic categories

5:00 Owen Rambow and Beatrice Santorini, Universite de Paris VII and
Northwestern University:Incremental phrase structure generation and Germanic V2

8:00 Invited speaker: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania: TBA

Saturday, October 15

9:30 Victoria Tredinnick, University of Pennsylvania: Amount relatives and
the presuppositional/cardinal distinction

10:00 William Snyder,MIT:A neo-Davidsonian approach to resultatives,
particles, and datives

10:30 Laura Conway and Stephen Crain, Univ of Connecticut:Dynamic acquisition

11:30 Jennifer Austin and Luis Lopez, Cornell Univ: Nominative, absolutive,
and dative languages

12:00 Carson T. Schutze, MIT: Case, verb morphology, and argument structure
in Choctaw: a minimalist account

12:30 John O'Neil, Harvard University: Out of Control

2:00 Edward S. Flemming, UCLA: Perceptual features in phonology: evidence
from consonant-vowel assimilation

2:30 Joyce M. McDonough, Ohio State Univ: Geminates, prespecification, and
the Prosodic Enhancement Strategy

3:00 Susanne Gahl, UC Berkeley: Consonant gradation as a prosodic constraint

4:00 David Embick, Univ of Penn: Unifying morphosyntax and phonology: the
'mobile inflections' of Polish

4:30 Rose-Marie Dechaine, Univ of British Columbia: Zero tense in Standard
and in African American English

5:00 Ellen Thompson, Univ of Maryland: Temporal ambiguity of clausal
adjuncts and antecedent contained deletion

5:30 Michael J.R. Johnston, Brandeis: The role of aspect in the composition
of temporal clauses with adverbs of quantification

7:30-10:00 NELS 25 Reception, Lower Egyptian Gallery

Sunday, October 16

9:30 Joachim Sabel, Universitaet Frankfurt/Main: On parallels and
differences between long scrambling and clitic climbing and the economy of
derivations

10:00 Alan Munn, Univ of Missouri:First conjunct agreement without government

10:30 Jonni Kanerva and Leslie Gabriele,Indiana:Intonation and focus layers

11:30 Laura Walsh, Univ of Massachusetts: Representing laterals

12:00 Elizabeth Hume and David Odden,Ohio St:The superfluity of [consonantal]

12:30 Jennifer Cole and Charles W. Kisseberth, U of Illinois: Paradoxical
strength conditions in harmony systems

2:00 Hajime Hoji, USC: Demonstrative binding and Principle B

2:30 Jacqueline Gueron, Universite de Paris X - Nanterre: HAVE, BE, and
the theory of auxiliary verbs

3:00 Heidi Harley, MIT: Abstracting away from Abstract Case

3:30 Marcel den Dikken, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Verb (projection)
raising, scope and uniform phrase structure
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Alternates:
 Megan Crowhurst and Mark Hewitt,U of North Carolina and U of Brit Columbia:
Directional footing and prosodic alignment
 Caroline Heycock, Univ of Edinburgh: The internal structure of small clauses:
new evidence from inversion
 Janet Hitzeman, Univ of Edinburgh:A Reichenbachian account of the
interaction of the present perfect with temporal adverbials
 Alec Marantz, MIT: The two modes of A-bar binding are not tied to the
argument/adjunct distinction
 Hubert Truckenbrodt, MIT: Rightward movement in the prosodic tree