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>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:44:47 +0200
>From: Angeliek van Hout <Angeliek.vanHout@let.uu.nl>
>Subject: Conference program: Language acquisition & breakdown
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>Below follows the program of our conference again, now with further
>conference information on (pre-)registration and a web site address which
>has a link with hotel information.
>
>
>LANGUAGE ACQUISITION & LANGUAGE BREAKDOWN
>May 28-29
>UiL OTS, Utrecht University
>
>
>PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
>
>THURSDAY MAY 27, UiL OTS, Trans 10, room 0.07
>
>5-7		Reception & registration
>
>FRIDAY MAY 28, room to be announced
>
>8.45 - 09.15	Registration 
>9.15 - 09.30	Opening and welcome by Eric Reuland (Direcetor of UiL
>		OTS, Utrecht University)
> 
>9.30-10.30	"The Vulnerable C-domain"
>		Christer Platzack, Lund University
>
>10.30-11.10	"The Italian determiner system in normal acquisition,
>		specific language impairment, and childhood aphasia"
>		Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani, Anna Maria Chilosi &
>		Lucia Pfanner,
>		University of Perugia, Scientific Institute Stella
>		Maris & University of Pisa
>
>11.10-11.30	coffee
>
>11.30-12.10	"Functional categories and syntactic operations in
>		(ab)normal language acquisition"
>		Celia Jakubowicz & Lea Nash
>		CNRS, Universit� Paris 5 & CNRS, Universit� Paris 8
>
>12.10-12.50	"The acquisition of event structure in normally
>		developing and language impaired children in German"  
>		Petra Schulz, Karin Wymann & Zvi Penner, Konstanz
>		University
>
>12.50-2.30	lunch
>
>2.30-3.30	"Compounding and  Inflection in Language Impairment"
>		Harald Clahsen, University of Essex
>
>3.30-4.10	"Controversies on CP: A comparison of language
>		acquisition and language impairments in Broca's
>		aphasia"
>		Martina Penke, Heinrich-Heine-Universit�t D�sseldorf
>
>4.10-4.30	tea
>
>4.30-5.10	"Root infinitives and finite sentences: child language
>		versus agrammatic speech"
>		Esterella de Roo, HIL, Leiden University
>
>5.10-6.10	"Grammatism: What language breakdown tells us about
>		language development"
>		Stephen Crain, University of Maryland
>
>Evening	Conference dinner
>
>SATURDAY MAY 29
>
>9.30-10.30	"The Unique Checking Constraint and Morphological
>		Parameters as an Explanation of Variation over Time
>		and Language of a Variety of Syntactic Constructions
>		in Language Acquisition, both Impaired and Normal"
>		Kenneth Wexler, MIT
>
>10.30-11.10	"The acquisition of complex predicates in Japanese
>		specifically language-impaired and normally-developing
>		children"
>		Shinji Fukuda & Suzy E. Fukuda, McGill University
>
>11.10-11.30	coffee
>
>11.30-12.10	"Comprehension of reversible relative clauses in
>		specifically language impaired and normally developing
>		children"
>		Stavroula Stavraki, Aristotle University of
>		Thessaloniki
>
>12.10-12.50	"Morphosyntactic features in the verbal and nominal
>		domains: a comparison between specifically language
>		impaired and normally developing Greek children"
>		Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge
>
>12.50-2.30	lunch
>
>2.30-3.30	"The use of ellipsis in aphasic and child
>		language"			
>		Herman Kolk, Nijmegen University
>
>3.30-4.10	"Verb inflection and verb diversity in three
>		populations: agrammatic speakers, normally developing
>		children and children with specific language
>		impairment"
>		Roelien Bastiaanse & Gerard Bol, Groningen University
>
>4.10-4.30	tea
>
>4.30-5.10	"Language acquisition and breakdown in Zulu"
>		Susan Suzman & Heile Jordaan, University of the
>		Witwatersrand
>
>5.10-6.10	"The neurology of syntax"
>		Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University
> 
>Alternate papers:
>
>"Radical economy in deviant grammar: Deleted Formal Features [Agr and
>Relational prep]"
>Lamya Abdul-Karim, Eliane Ramos, Thomas Roeper & Harry Seymour
>University of Massachusetts
>
>"Verb movement in acquisition and aphasia: Same problem, different
>solutions. Evidence from Dutch"
>Shalom Zuckerman, Roelien Bastiaanse & Ron van Zonneveld, Groningen
University
>
>
>	
>Registration
>
>Pre-registration fee till May 15th 1999:
>	participant 		fl 60	(approx.  27.50 euro)
>	student		fl 20	(approx.  9 euro)
>
>Registration fee at conference venue:
>	participant		fl 85	(approx.  39 euro)
>	student		fl 30	(approx.  14 euro)
>
>Pre-registration can be done on-line on our web site, or by requesting a
>registration form by sending an email to: uil-ots@let.uu.nl
>	
>
>Conference venue
>
>UiL OTS is located in downtown Utrecht. Exact location to be announced. 
>
>
>Accommodation
>
>Information on hotel accommodation in Utrecht can be found on our web site.
>
>
>Conference web site
>
>http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/Conferences/LanguageBreakdown/index.htm
>
>
>Organizers
>
>Sergey Avrutin (Yale University), Marco Haverkort (Groningen University &
>Boston University),  Angeliek van Hout (Utrecht University), Maaike Verrips
>(Utrecht University)
>
>
>For further information
>
>UiL OTS, Utrecht University
>Trans 10
>NL-3512 JK Utrecht
>Netherlands
>
>Language.Acquisition@let.uu.nl
>
>
>
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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