Talks and Events

Doctoral Program


A lot of snow

UUSLAW
Saturday, December 13
Arjona 317
University of Connecticut
 
10:00-10:30

BREAKFAST

10:30-11:00 Jill Magee (UConn, Linguisitics) Language change and parameter setting: The Prepositional Dative in Latin?
11:00-11:30 Anna Verbuk (UMass, Linguistics) Acquisition of conventional implicatures
11:30-11:40

BREAK

11:40-12:10 Elaine Grolla (UConn, Linguistics) Reference set computation and the acquisition of resumptive pronouns
12:10-12:40 L. Swenson, E. Kelley, J. Latz, D. Fein, L. Naigles (UConn, Psychology) Children with Autism understand word order before they produce it
12:40-2:00

LUNCH

2:00-2:30 Diane Lillo-Martin, William Snyder, Sarah Felber, Bosook Kang, Lara Reglero, and Emma Ticio (UConn, Linguistics) Classifying verbs of motion by the Compounding Parameter
2:30-3:00

Liane Jeschull (UMass, Linguistics)

Acquiring two types of telicity
3:00-3:30 Letitia Naigles (UConn, Psychology) Noah's Ark Part 6: New influences on the acquisition of argument structure
3:30-3:40

BREAK

3:40-4:10 Francesca Foppolo (UMass, Linguistics) Scalar implicatures: which factors underlie children
difficulty with pragmatic inferences
4:10-4:40 Natalia Rakhlin (UConn, Linguistics) A new approach to the Quantifier spreading puzzle
4:40-5:10 Barbara Zurer Pearson (UMass, Communication disorders) Optionality, Learnability and triggering: The view from the passive in mainstream American English and African-American English
5:30: Dinner (Chang's Garden)
After dinner: Party (William's house)