Evidentials Group
The evidentials group met on Monday, September 29. Emerson Loustou talked about his summer research on Mohawk.
[Thanks Peggy!]
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acquisition lab
October 2, 2008
September 25, 2008
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Aquisition Lab met on Monday, September 22. Barbara Pearson gave a presentation titled 'Relating quantifier acquisition and math: a proposal'.
[Thanks Tom!]
September 4, 2008
Acquisition/Evidentials Group Meeting
The language acquisition and evidentials project groups will have their first meeting of the semester on Monday, September 8, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. The meeting will be mostly organizational, but all are welcome.
[Thanks Peggy!]
May 15, 2008
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, May 12. Tanja Heizmann, Amy Patno and Tom Roeper presented an informal, interactive talk titled 'Exhaustivity vs maximality: Preliminiary data brainstorming session'.
May 1, 2008
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab assembled on April 28 to hear Meg Grant deliver 'Acquisition of perception verb small clauses and propositional complements'.
[Thanks Tom!]
April 24, 2008
UUSLAW on May 17
The date for UUSLAW (the UMass Amherst–UConn–Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) is now set for May 17. Tanja Heizmann writes, "it is really informal, so it's a nice platform to discuss experimental ides or interim data!"
[Thanks Tanja!]
April 17, 2008
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, April 14. Jill de Villiers discussed her trip to South Africa and the acquisition and disorders work there. She organized the first acquisition conference on Acquisition of African languages.
[Thanks Tom!]
March 13, 2008
Recent Acquisition Lab Meetings
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, March 10, at 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. Tanja Heizmann and Amy Patno presented their experimental work 'Exhaustivity versus Maximality'.
The Acquisition Lab also held a special meeting on March 12. Insa Gülzow (ZAS) presented her work on reciprocals and reflexives in German and the 'Strongest Meaning Principle'.
[Thanks Tom!]
March 6, 2008
Acquisition Lab Meeting Last Monday
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, March 3. Magda Oiry presented 'Scope marking in French LI'.
[Thanks Tom!]
December 13, 2007
Correction: Mike Frank Spoke on December 10
Last week's WHISC reported that Mike Frank would be speaking in the Acquisition Lab on December 19. This was a mistake. He actually spoke in the lab on December 10. Unfortunately, he won't be returning on the 19th, despite what WHISC promised. Our apologies.
December 6, 2007
Michael Frank in the Acquisition Lab
Michael Frank
MIT
Monday, December 10, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room
November 29, 2007
UUSLAW Workshop
UUSLAW, Saturday, December 1, 2007, UMass Amherst (Herter 301). PDF version of the program.
[Thanks Tanja!]
November 15, 2007
UUSLAW on December 1
UUSLAW (the UMass-UConn-Smith Acquisition Workshop) will take place on December 1, here at UMass Amherst. If you'd like to present (20 minute talk, plus 10 minutes for questions), send Tanja Heizmann a note this week, with a title if possible.
[Thanks Tanja!]
November 8, 2007
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, Novemeber 5. Chloe Gu presented 'Acquisition of English double object and prepositional phrase dative'.
[Thanks Tom!]
October 25, 2007
Acquistion Lab Meeting
The Acquisition Lab meets on Monday, October 29, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room:
- Tanja Heizmann: BU practice talk on Exhaustivity
- Emily Sowalsky: Experiments on Recursive Bubbles
- Jill de Villiers: Autism and Conventional Implicatures
Everyone is welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
September 6, 2007
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Acquisition Lab meets on Monday, September 10, at 12:15 pm , in the Partee Room. Catherine Léger and Tom Roeper will report on GALA and the Theory of Mind Workshop. The group will also plan for the new year. Everyone is welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
April 19, 2007
Evidentials Group Meeting
The Evidentials Grant Group met on Tuesday, April 17. Leah Bateman presented her work on Tibetan evidentials and their interaction with tense and aspect.
March 8, 2007
Evidentials Group / Acquisition Lab
The Evidentials Group/Acqusition Lab met on March 5. Anna Verbuk and Catherine Léger presented.
The next meeting is on March 12, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. Tanja Heizmann will present some of her experimental items for her work on exhaustivity, and Valentine Hacquard will present joint work done with Emily Sowalsky on epistemics and embeddings.
[Thanks Youri!]
February 8, 2007
Evidentials Group/Acquistion Lab
The Evidentials Group/Acquisition Lab met on February 5. Jay Garfield, Namgyal Norbu, and Jill de Villiers presented 'Beginning explorations in the acquisition of Tibetan evidentials'.
February 1, 2007
Reading Group News
The various reading groups are in their planning stages for the semester. Here's a mapping from groups to their current organizers, whom you should contact if you're new to South College and would like to receive news about meetings and the like:
| Acquisition Lab | → | Youri Zabbal |
| PhG | → | Kathryn Pruitt |
| SRG | → | Florian Schwarz |
| Syntax | → | Cherlon Ussery |
November 30, 2006
UUSLAW December 9, at UMass Amherst
UUSLAW (The UMass-Amherst/UConn/Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) will take place here at UMass Amherst on December 9, in Herter 301. The start-time will be around 9:00 am. We'll have more details closer to the time.
[Thanks Tanja!]
November 16, 2006
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Group met on Tuesday, November 14. Liane Jeschull and Tom Roeper presented 'Evidentials/Certainty markers: Naturalistic evidence and experimental ideas for English'.
November 2, 2006
Acquisition Group Post-BU Dinner
Readers attending the BU Conference on Language Development this weekend, at Boston University, are invited to go out for dinner on Saturday night. The group will gather at the registration desk at 7:30 pm (well, after the poster session finishes at around 7:45 pm). The restaurant hasn't been picked yet, but there is a Thai place down the street from the conference site ...
[Thanks Tanja!]
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab met on Halloween. Tanja Heizmann presented her work on clefts and exhaustivity.
[Thanks Youri!]
October 26, 2006
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab met on Tuesday, October 23. Hristo Kyuchukov, currently a visitor at Smith, presented some of his recent work.
[Thanks Youri!]
October 12, 2006
Acquisition Group Meeting
The Acquisition Group met on Tuesday, October 9. Marieke Obdeijin (University of Utrecht) presented 'Discourse anaphora in children and the role of er [there] in Dutch.
[Thanks Youri!]
September 28, 2006
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Acquisition Lab met on Tuesday, September 26, at 12:30 pm. Helen Stickney reported on her current research.
[Thanks Youri!]
September 14, 2006
Evidentials Group and Acquisition Lab Meetings
The Evidentials Grant Group and the Acquisition Lab have joined forces. They will now have combined meetings on Tuesdays, 12:30 pm, in the Partee Room. This new combination is the result of the extensive interactions between the groups facilitated by the NSF Grant on Evidentials.
At the most recent meeting, Bart Hollebrandse and Helen Stickney each presented work.
For more about the grant and associated projects, visit these websites:
- UMass Amherst Language Acquisition Lab
- Epistemology and evidentiality in Navajo, Tibetan, and English
[Thanks Youri!]
June 29, 2006
Special Acquisition Talk
On May 26, Joseph Galasso (California State University, Northridge) gave a special invited lecture to the acqusition lab: 'The nature of the input: Tracing the INFL affix through the Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development
Some Points on Borer and Rohrbacher'.
April 27, 2006
UUSLAW Program
There is now a tentative schedule for UUSLAW 2006, the UMass Amherst -- UConn -- Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, which takes places this Saturday, April 29, at UConn.
April 20, 2006
UUSLAW: Acquisition Workshop at UConn
The UConn/UMass/Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW) will be held at UConn on April 29.
Anyone who would like to present a paper should let Tom Roeper know, so that he can put you in contact with the coordinators. Anyone who would like to attend should let Tom know as well, for carpool-arranging purposes.
[Thanks Tom!]
April 6, 2006
Acquisition Lab Meeting
Monday, April 10, 12:15 pm, South College 301
- Barbara Pearson will present the AAE database and explain how anyone can use it who wants to work on acquisition or dialect. The database contains a great deal of verbatim material as well as experimental results.
- Helen Stickney: Brainstorming on experimental approaches to Partitives and Pseudo-partitives
Everyone welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
March 30, 2006
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Acquisition Lab meets this Monday, April 3, at 12:30 pm, in South College 301. The line-up of speakers is not yet determined, but the topics wil probably range from evidentiality to telicity.
All are welcome. Stay tuned for updates.
[Thanks Tom!]
Acquisition Lab Clean-Up
Helen Stickney reminds us:
Mark your calendars. The official date for cleaning and organizing the Language Acquisition Lab is Saturday, April 1, 12:00-2:00pm. Please feel free to drop in and help at any point during that two hour period.
[Thanks Helen!]
March 16, 2006
Acquisition Lab Sessions
Lately, we've missed announcements for the acquisition lab, due to the timing of publication. We're working to get you the news before it happens. For now, just a brief report on the two most recent meetings, both lively and interesting:
On March 13, Helen Stickney reported on her ongoing work on partitives. And Tanja Heizmann talked about exhaustivity and clefts.
On March 6, Leontine Kremers reported on her work on collectivity and distributivity.
February 16, 2006
Acquisition Lab Session
Monday February 13, 2006, South College 301, 12:15 pm
Catherine Leger
Acquistion of Factivity with French and
English-speaking Children
Anna Verbuk
Acquisition of Evans-Style contexts
All are welcome!