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Friday, August 1, 2003
Time Author Title
09:00 - 09:15   Introductory Remarks
09:15 - 10:30 Charles Yang
Yale University
From Skinner's box to Chomsky's UG: the role of input and statistical learning in language acquisition
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee
11:00 - 11:45 Tanja Kupisch
University of Hamburg
On the role of the input in the acquisition of determiners by bilingual children
11:45 - 12:30 Anjum Saleemi & Teresa Satterfield
National Chi Nan University,
University of Michigan
Mind the Gap: Epistemology and Development of natural Language
12:30 - 14:30   Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 P. Toyoko Kang
University of Guam
Surface X-bar Theory, Prosodic Structures and First Language Acquisition
15:15 - 16:00 Marit R. Westergaard
University of Tromsø
The Interaction of Input and UG: Principles in the Acquisition of Verb Movement in a Dialect of Norwegian
16:00 - 16:30   Coffee
16:30 - 17:15 Janet Dean Fodor
Graduate Center CUNY
Evaluating Models of Parameter Setting





Saturday, August 2, 2003
Time Author Title
09:30 - 10:45 Anthony Kroch
University of Pennsylvania
If at first you don't succeed: the time course of language acquisition
10:45 - 11:15   Coffee
11:15 - 12:00 Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
University of Toronto
Fair competitions: frequency effects, transfer and innate constraints in L1/L2 grammars
12:00 - 12:45 Chung-hye Han, Julien Musolino, Jeffery Lidz, Meesook Kim
Simon Fraser University, Indiana University, Northwestern University, Sangji University
Verb Movement and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from negation and quantifier scope
12:45 - 14:30   Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Kriszta Szendroi
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Narrow and wide scop focus interpretation in the acquisition of only- sentences
15:15 - 16:00 Jeffery Lidz & Sandra Waxman
Northwestern University
One-substitution Revisited: Experimental and Corpus Evidence
16:00 - 16:30   Coffee
16:30 - 18:00   Round Table Discussion
Alternate Jacqueline Van Kampen
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
An acquisitional view on optionality