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CONFERENCE LOCATION: Room 314 A-B, Illini Union
(1401 W Green st. Urbana, IL 61801)
Thursday, September 8
| 8:30 – 9:15 | Registration and breakfast |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Opening remarks |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | The role of the visible functional head in the interpretation of recursion
Ágnes Tόth (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Relatively over-elaborated: Children’s use of relative clauses
Anny Castilla-Earls (University of Houston), Erin Hall (University of Toronto), Gabrielle Klassen (University of Toronto) and Ana Pérez-Leroux (University of Toronto) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Adjunct control in 3 and 4 year olds: Effects of age and similarity-based interference
Juliana Gerard (University of Maryland), Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland), Shalom Zuckerman (Utrecht University) and Manuela Pinto (Utrecht University) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Control, raising, and the problem of generalization
Ava Irani (University of Pennsylvania) and Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Plenary 1: Counting the (missing) nouns: Learning verb argument structure from dialogue
Cynthia Fisher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Lunch (catered) |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Poster Session |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | On passives in English, and causatives in French
Jason Borga (University of Connecticut) and William Snyder (University of Connecticut) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | On the learnability of implicit arguments
Victoria Mateu (University of California at Los Angeles) and Nina Hyams (University of California at Los Angeles) |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Coffee break |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | The (non)-effect of pragmatics on children’s passives
Emma Nguyen (University of Connecticut) and William Snyder (University of Connecticut) |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | The interpretation of disjunction in Verbs Phrase ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese Na Gao (Macquarie University) and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) and Peng Zhou (Macquarie University) |
| 5:30 – 6:00 | Tracking forms and structures: How children learn the wanna facts
Heidi Getz (Georgetown University) and Elissa Newport (Georgetown University) |
| after 6:00 | Dinner on your own |
Friday, September 9
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Second language acquisition of stress in Portuguese: Extrametricality and default stress
Guilherme Garcia (McGill University) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Development in L3 acquisition: Is native language transfer harder to overcome?
Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Chicago), Michael Iverson (Indiana University), David Giancaspro (Rutgers University) and Becky Halloran (Indiana University) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | How abstract is Interlanguage phonology? Evidence from Turkish vowel harmony
Öner Özçelik (Indiana University) and Rex Sprouse (Indiana University) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Processing (in)efficiency in the second language: Experience and cognitive effects on morphosyntactic predictions
Crystal Marull (Rutgers University) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: Speeded production data and the Interface Hypothesis Jose Sequeros-Valle (University of Illinois at Chicago), Bradley Hoot (DePaul University) and Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Plenary 2: The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated
Roumyana Slabakova, University of Southampton |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Fluctuation in the L2 acquisition of English articles: The role of corrective feedback
Jwahir Alzamil (Newcastle University) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and adult second language learners
Chung-Yu Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Argument omission in Sign L2 acquisition by deaf learners – back to inhibition
Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Development of a collective-distributive pragmatic scale
Ramόn Padilla-Reyes (The Ohio State University), John Grinstead (The Ohio State University), Melissa Nieves-Rivera (The Ohio State University) and Dorian González-Bonilla (Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Children’s knowledge of disjunction
Haiquan Huang (Macquarie University), Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) and Peng Zhou (Macquarie University) |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Acquiring distinctions in nominal and verbal domains in child Cantonese
Margaret Ka-Yan Lei (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 5:30 – 5:45 | break |
| 5:45 – 6:45 | Plenary 3: Arguments for and against the innateness of language: The good and the irrelevant
Virginia Valian, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center |
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Conference Dinner, Illini Room C, Illini Union |
Saturday, September 10
8:45 – 9:15 Breakfast
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Introduction to the Special session on Input variation and language acquisition |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Special session invited talk 1: Acquisition of variably produced morphology
Karen Miller, Pennsylvania State University |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Learning the plural from variable input: An eye-tracking study
Cynthia Lukyaneko (Pennsylvania State University) and Karen Miller (Pennsylvania State University) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers
Isabelle Barriere (Long Island University/Brooklyn & YVY Research Institute), Sarah Kresh (CUNY Graduate Center & YVY Research Institute), Katsiaryna Aharodnik (CUNY Graduate Center & YVY Research Institute), Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University) and Thierry Nazzi (CNRS University Rene Descartes) |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Special session invited talk 2: Variability within varieties of English: Profiles of typicality and impairment
Janna Oetting, Louisiana State University |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Special session discussion |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Business Meeting |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Imperatives and Root Infinitives in early Portuguese
Karina Bertolino (University of Connecticut) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Discourse-pragmatics and overt subject use In SLI – A discriminant function analysis
John Grinstead (The Ohio State University), Paij Lintz (The Ohio State University), Amy Pratt (The Ohio State University), Mariana Vega-Mendoza (The University of Edinburgh), Juliana De la Mora (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro), Myriam Cantú Sánchez (La Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Blanca Flores (Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, México) |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Acquisition of locative PPs in Russian and Norwegian: Evidence for the Structure-Building Hypothesis
Natalia Mitrofanova (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Acquisition of the ergative structure in Hindi by second language learners
Stephanie Landblom (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
Alternates (in alphabetical order by first author):
Acquisition of place features in early word productions: The role of grammar and input
Kayla Day (University of Alberta)
Heritage signers: Bimodal bilingual structures
Ronice Quadros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut), Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) and Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Posters (in alphabetical order by first author):
Object shift in L2 Norwegian
Merete Anderssen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Kristine Bentzen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Anne Dahl (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Jelena Didriksen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Björn Lundquist (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Variation in the acquisition of presupposition triggers
Athulya Aravind (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Martin Hackl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Infatuation matters: On children’s production frequency when acquiring new constructions
Ksenia Bogomolets (University of Connecticut)
Is there evidence for a uniform semantics of pronouns and definites?
Saskia Brockmann (University of Tuebingen)
Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-English learners from generalized classifier L1s
Sea Hee Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tania Ionin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Yeqiu Zhu (Nanjing University)
Acquisition of place features in early word productions: The role of grammar and input
Kayla Day (University of Alberta)
Filling in gaps in gap filling research: Wh-question answering in children versus adults
Jill de Villiers (Smith College), Jessica Kotfila (Smith College) and Madeline Klein (Smith College)
Cognitive dimensions of subject-verb agreement error detection in second language (L2) French
Rodica Frimu (Indiana University)
The effect of short-term immersion on heritage children’s development of gender and number agreement
David Giancaspro (Rutgers University) and Crystal Marull (Rutgers University)
Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish: The case of “haber” in conjunction with manner adverbs
Patricia Gonzalez Darriba (Rutgers University)
Children’s comprehension of the get-passive
Megan Gotowski (University of California at Los Angeles)
The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese
Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)
The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition
Isabel Nadine Jensen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton) and Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Age of arrival effects in L2 islands
Boyoung Kim (University of Texas at Austin) and Grant Goodall (University of California at San Diego)
Failed gender agreement – a syntactic impairment or a lexical issue?
Alena Kirova (Rutgers University, Higher School of Economics) and José Camacho (Rutgers University)
The acquisition of the the/that distinction by Chinese EFL learners
Qiufen Liu (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Bilingual delay in recursive NPs? Evidence for convergence
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (University of Toronto), Anny Castilla-Earls (University of Houston), and Erin Pettibone (University of Toronto)
Heritage signers: Bimodal bilingual structures
Ronice Quadros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut), Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) and Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Adjective ordering restrictions and the acquisition-learning debate
David Stringer (Indiana University)
Red train, big train, broken train – semantic aspects of adjectives in child language
Merle Weicker, Petra Schulz (Goethe-University Frankfurt)