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UUSLAW This Saturday

UUSLAW (the UMass Amherst-UConn-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) takes place this Saturday, May 17, at UConn, in (or very near) the Linguistics Department there. Below is a list of the presenters, along with their titles, though possibly not in the order of presentation. The start time is 10:00 am.

Update: We now have the full schedule here:

10:00-10:30 Breakfast
10:30-11:00 Jeff Bernath (UConn) Separating theories of ASL Phonology: Looking in acquisition
11:00-11:30 Helen Koulidobrova (UConn) DP or not DP: Testing the parameter through acquisition
11:30-11:45 Coffee
11:45-12:15 Magda Oiry (UMass Amherst) Acquisition of long-distance questions in French: Varying experimental contexts
12:15-12:45 Bill Philip (UMass Amherst) Dutch children's sensitivity to weak cross-over effects
12:45-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:15 Masahiko Takahashi (UConn) The acquisition of passives and optional subject movement in Japanese
2:15-2:45 Jean Crawford (UConn) The acquisition of Sesotho passives: Evidence for maturation
2:45-3:00 Coffee
3:00-3:30 Jill de Villiers, Harper Gernet-Girard, Jay Garfield (Smith) Figuring out the properties of Tibetan evidentials for child speakers
3:30-4:00 Aynat Rubinstein (UMass Amherst) Assessing semantic conservatism
4:00-4:30 Eva Bar-Shalom (UConn) and Elena Zaretsky (UMass Amherst) Initial phases of attrition in Russian-English bilingual children and the role of L1 in L1 attrition

[Thanks Tanja and Tom!]