April 5th, 2006

The acquisition of the syntax and semantics of number marking

 

Organisers: Anna Gavarró (UAB) & Maria Teresa Guasti (U. Milano-Bicocca)

Invited speaker: CARSON SCHÜTZE (UCLA)

ROOM 01, GROUND FLOOR

 

8:30-9:20 Registration

9:00–10:00 Carson Schütze (UCLA), invited talk, ‘What it means (not) to know (number) agreement’

10:00–10:40 Sandile Gxilishe (University of Cape Town), Jill de Villiers & Peter de Villiers (Smith College) ‘Number agreement in English and Xhosa’

10:40–11:20 Karen Miller & Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University) ‘Interpretable and uninterpretable number in child language comprehension’

11:20–11:50 coffee break

11:50–12:30 Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux (University of Toronto) ‘Recovering plurality’

12:30–13:10 Xiaofei Zhang, Cristina Schmitt & Alan Munn (Michigan State University) ‘The acquisition of plurality in a language without plurality’

13:10–13:50 Aurora Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Elisa Rosado (Universitat de Barcelona) ‘On some asymmetries in the acquisition of number marking in Catalan and Spanish’

13:50–15:00 lunch

15:00–15:40 Galina Gordishevsky & Jeannette Schaeffer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) ‘The influence of Number specification on the acquisition of Case in early Russian’

15:40–16:20 Maria Teresa Guasti, Fabrizio Arosio & Flavia Adani (Università di Milano-Bicocca) ‘Number morphology and position during relative clause processing by Italian children’

16:20–17:00 Ken Wexler (MIT) ‘Number's OK, but maximality’s not’

17:00–17:30 coffee break

17:30-18:30 Invited speaker of the  Workshop on adjuncts/modifiers (Juan Uriagereka - University of Maryland) & General discussion of the Workshop on phonological opacity

 

Write to cg.acquisition@uab.es if you have any queries about the workshop.