Mind-Context Divide Workshop




		Mind Context-Divide Workshop Schedule Download Schedule (.doc format) THURSDAY APRIL 30TH, 2009 9:00-9:45 - Registration; coffee & light breakfast 9:45-9:50 - Welcoming remarks (Rothman and Slabakova) 9:50-10:00 - Welcoming remarks (Associate Provost and Dean of IP Thomas) 10:00-10:55 - Plenary speaker: María Luisa Zubizarreta, USC Two ways of expressing meaning: prosody and syntax. Implications for SLA 11:00- 11:30 - Joana Ambulate (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) The Acquisition of Embedded Subject Pronouns in European Portuguese 11:30-12:00 - Juana Liceras (University of Ottawa) The Distribution of Null Subjects in Non-Native Grammars: Syntactic Markedness and Interface Vulnerability 12:00-1:30 - Poster Session I (Lunch provided) 1:30 -2:30 - Plenary speaker: Bonnie Schwartz, University of Hawaii The morphological problem 2:30-3:00 - Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University), Karen Miller (Calvin College) Plurality and Acquisition: What Is to Be Learned 3:00-3:30 - Laurent Dekydtspotter (Indiana University), Amanda C. Edmonds (Indiana University), Audrey Liljestrand Fultz (Indiana University), Claire Renaud (Indiana University), Rebecca A. Petrush (Indiana University) On the Role of Context and Morphology in the Processing of Relative Clause Ambiguity in English-French Interlanguage 3:30-3:45 - Coffee Break 3:45-4:15 - Loes Koring (Utrecht University) Acquiring the Syntax and Semantics of Dutch Raising-Verbs 4:15-4:45 - Tihana Kras (University of Rijeka) The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in the L2: Can It Be Acquired? 4:45-5:15 - Susannah Kirby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Semantic "scaffolding" in L1A syntax: Learning raising-to-object and object control 6:00-7:00 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Lydia White, McGill University Language Acquisition at the Interfaces Room W151, John Pappajohn Business Building 7:30-9:00 - Conference Dinner (River Room, IMU) FRIDAY, MAY 1ST 2009 8:30-9:00 - Registration and breakfast 9:00-9:50 - Plenary speaker: Andrea Gualmini, Utrecht University Towards a Model of Contextual Relevance: The Role of the Question under Discussion from Children to Adults and Back Again 10:00-10:30 - Moti Lieberman (McGill University) Necessary interpretation at the syntax/pragmatics interface: L2 acquisition of scalar implicatures 10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break 10:45-11:15 - Kook-Hee Gill (University of Sheffield), Heather Marsden (University of York) Semantics before syntax: L2 knowledge of anyone by Korean-speaking learners 11:15-12:05 - Plenary speaker: Alison Garbriele, University of Kansas Mismatches at the Interface: Considering Coercion in L2 acquisition 12:05-1:30 - Lunch (on your own) 1:00-1:30 - IMPORTANT for grad students! Maria Fruit Bell, Bell Language Consulting, Inc.: Q and A session on jobs for linguistics in the DC area. 1:30- 2:00 - Diane Lilo-Martin (University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories), Ronice Müller de Quadros (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) Acquisition of the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Expression of Point-of-View 2:00-2:30 - Ozge Ozturk (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware) The Interface between Linguistic and Conceptual Representations: The Acquisition of Evidentiality and Source Reasoning in Turkish Learners 2:20-2:30 - Break 2:30-3:30 - Plenary speaker: Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo (with Rodrigo Romero Méndez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas) Path to second language via Conceptual Structure 3:30-4:00 - Tania Ionin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Silvina Montrul, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Monica Crivos (Universidade CAECE sede Mar del Plata, Argentina) L1 Transfer at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Bidirectional Study of Generic Reference 4:00-4:30 - Coffee break 4:30-5:00 - Susanne Carroll (University of Calgary), Susan Jackson (University of Calgary), Danica MacDonald (University of Calgary) Adult L2 Learners Process Phonology from First Exposure 5:00-6:30 - Poster Session 2 & Cocktail Reception Saturday, May 2nd 2009 8:30-9:00 - Registration and breakfast 9:00-9:50 - Plenary speaker: Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign On Linguistic Complexity, Interfaces, and Incomplete Acquisition 10:00-10:30 - Claudia Borgonovo (Université Laval), Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (University of Western Ontario), Philippe Prévost (Université Laval) L2 Acquisition at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Focus on Mood Distinctions in L2Spanish Relative Clauses 10:30-10:45 - Coffee Break 10:45-11:15 - Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole (Bangor University, Wales), Ruba A. Moawad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez(Bangor University, Wales), Enlli Mon Thomas(Bangor University, Wales), Rocio Perez Tattam (Bangor University, Wales), HannahMorrish(Bangor University, Wales), Hedd Tomos(Bangor University, Wales), Feryal Yavas (Florida International University), Garamis Campusano (Florida International University) The Semantics-Cognition Interface in Bilingual Systems 11:15-11:45 - Irina A. Sekerina (College of Staten Island, CUNY), John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania) Processing Contrastiveness by 6-year-old Russian Children 11:45-12:15 - Light Lunch provided 12:15-1:30 - Closing Discussions Alternate papers: Tania Ionin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California, Vadim Philippov, Orel State University (Russia). Articles and specificity in second language acquisition: age-related effects at the syntax-semantics interface. Ivan Ivanov (University of Iowa). Topicality and clitic-doubling in L2 Bulgarian: A test case for the Interface Hypothesis Hannah De Mulder (Utrecht University). Theory of Mind, linguistic development and mental language Tatiana Zdorenko and Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta). Articles in child L2 English: Evidence for modular L1 influence in an interface phenomenon Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria Eugenia de Luna, Ana Faure, Alma Ramirez, Yolanda Pangtay (The University of Western Ontario). What code-mixed DPs can tell us about gender? Poster session I: Ivan Ivanov (University of Iowa). Topicality and clitic-doubling in L2 Bulgarian: A test case for the Interface Hypothesis (also alternate paper) Hannah De Mulder (Utrecht University). Theory of Mind, linguistic development and mental language (also alternate paper) Bryan Donaldson (Indiana University). The syntax-pragmatics interface in near-native French: Evidence from right-dislocations Isao Ueda (Osaka University) and Hiroko Saito (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). On the interaction between phonology and syntax in tonic misplacement Ana de Prada Pérez (Penn State University). Subject position across intransitive predicate types and information structures in Spanish in contact with Catalan: A comparison of contact effects in the lexico-semantic and the discourse-pragmatic interfaces with syntax Koichi Otaki (University of Connecticut). The syntax-lexicon interface in the acquisition of English comparative morphology Audrey Liljestrand Fultz (Indiana University). Structural complexity and prosodic information in L2 processing Nigel Duffield (University of Sheffield) and Yayoi Tajima (University of Sheffield) On the Non-Uniformity of Asian Thinking (...for Speaking) Poster session II: Tatiana Zdorenko and Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta). Articles in child L2 English: Evidence for modular L1 influence in an interface phenomenon (also alternate paper) Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria Eugenia de Luna, Ana Faure, Alma Ramirez, Yolanda Pangtay (The University of Western Ontario). What code-mixed DPs can tell us about gender? (also alternate paper) Öner Özçelik (McGill University). Scope ambiguity in child language Gonzalo Campos (University of Iowa). L2 production of past morphology in the L2 English of advanced Spanish natives: Syntactic deficits or phonotactic transfer? Tiffany Judy and Michael Iverson (University of Iowa). Interface vulnerability, syntactic deficits or prior linguistic knowledge?: Explaining differences across Brazilian Portuguese knowledge as an L2 and L3 Eun Seon (Eunice) Chung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The interpretation of quantification in the scope of negation in English by adult Korean L2 learners M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Virginia Mueller Gathercole (Bangor University). Focus at the interface in end-state L2 Spanish grammars Oksana Laleko (University of Minnesota). Tense-aspect morphology in heritage Russian: A view from the Prototype Theory Solveig Bosse and Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware). Positional verbs and memory for location: A comparison of German and English Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (Plymouth University) and (University of Iowa). Describing DP knowledge and characterizing its development: L2 Spanish by Chinese learners.

		Mind-Context Divide Workshop Home/Speakers \| Questions Addressed \| Programs \| Abstracts \| Proceedings Registration \| Accomodations \| Iowa City Area \| Travel The workshop is made possible by generous funding from the International Programs Major Projects fund, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Bond Funding, the Vice President of Research, as well as the Co-Sponsorships of FLARE/SLA Ph.D program, the Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences and the Departments of Linguistics and Spanish and Portuguese.