Chloe Gu presented 'Expletives, raising, and point of view' at the most recent meeting of the Evidentials/Acquisition group, on April 27.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition/Evidentials group met on Monday, April 13. Joe Pater and Diana Apoussidou presented 'Computational simulation of gradual learning'.
[Thanks Tom!]
The next UUSLAW meeting (the UMass Amherst-UConn-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) is scheduled to take place on May 2 at the University of Connecticut, in the Psychology Department. Please email Saime Tek if you would like to present. Pilot studies and experiments, completed studies, and theoretical studies are all welcome.
The Acquisition/Evidentials Group met on March 30. Maxi Limbach (University of Cologne) presented the results of her ongoing experiments in a talk titled 'Recursive Possessives in L1 and L2'.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition/Evidentials Group met on Monday, March 23. Magda Oiry presented her recent analysis of long distance movement in acquisition, 'A case of true optionality: Wh-in-situ patterns like Long Movement in French'.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Evidentials/Acquisition Group met on March 9. Meg Grant presented experimental work on events and propositions.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition/Evidentials group was originally scheduled to meet in the evening on March 2. However, we ended up getting a huge amount of snow on March 2. So the meeting was moved to March 3 to give everyone time to shovel out. Jill de Villiers and Jay Garfield presented 'Acquisition of Tibetan Evidentials'.
Evidentials grant consultant Ed Garrett was on hand as well. He's in town visiting and available for meetings.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Aquisition/Evidentials Grant Group met on Monday, February 23. Aynat Rubinstein presented 'An experiment on the acquisition of low modal meanings'.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition/Evidentials Group had a meeting, with socializing, on President's Day, at Laura Holland and Tom Roeper's house. Marco Fenici, a visitor from Siena Cognitive Science, presented 'Concepts and development'. Misato Hiraga presented 'Acquisition of recursive verbal compounds: experimental proposal'. And the group enjoyed lots of tasty potluck fare.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition/Evidentials group met on Monday, February 9. Kate Hobbs and Jill de Villiers presented their work and led a discussion with Joe Pater on OT acquisition connections between syntax and phonology.
[Thanks Tom!]
UUSLAW (UConn-UMass Amherst-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) takes place this Saturday (December 6), at Smith College, in Campus Center 204.
[Thanks Tom!]
Here are some reading group events that we missed as a result of our strict adherence to Thursday publishing and our Thanksgiving Holiday:
UUSLAW (the UMass Amherst-UConn-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) is scheduled to take place on December 6 at Smith College. Write to Tom Roeper and Jill de Villiers if you'd like to present. Tom writes, "It is a good time to expose pilot work or a planned experiment for some feedback as well as more extensive results. Theoretical work is also welcome."
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, November 10. Chloe Gu led a disussion called 'An experimental plan for exploring the "seat of knowledge" perspective in acquisition'.
[Thanks Tom!]
Hideki Kishimoto
Kobe University
Possessive Nominals and Possessor-Raising Constructions in Japanese
Thursday, November 6, 4:00 pm, Machmer W-27
[Thanks Tom!]
Maxi Limbach
University of Köln
Experimental plans for recursive possessives in German/English bi-linguals
Monday, October 27, 12:15 pm, Partee Room
Aviya Hacohen
Tel Aviv
On compositional telicity in Adult and Child Hebrew
Monday, October 20, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room
[Thanks Tom!]
The evidentials group met on Monday, September 29. Emerson Loustou talked about his summer research on Mohawk.
[Thanks Peggy!]
The Aquisition Lab met on Monday, September 22. Barbara Pearson gave a presentation titled 'Relating quantifier acquisition and math: a proposal'.
[Thanks Tom!]
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!]
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'.
The Acquisition Lab assembled on April 28 to hear Meg Grant deliver 'Acquisition of perception verb small clauses and propositional complements'.
[Thanks Tom!]
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!]
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!]
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!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, March 3. Magda Oiry presented 'Scope marking in French LI'.
[Thanks Tom!]
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.
Michael Frank
MIT
Monday, December 10, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room
UUSLAW, Saturday, December 1, 2007, UMass Amherst (Herter 301). PDF version of the program.
[Thanks Tanja!]
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!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, Novemeber 5. Chloe Gu presented 'Acquisition of English double object and prepositional phrase dative'.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Acquisition Lab meets on Monday, October 29, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room:
Everyone is welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
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!]
The Evidentials Grant Group met on Tuesday, April 17. Leah Bateman presented her work on Tibetan evidentials and their interaction with tense and aspect.
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!]
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'.
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 |
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!]
The Acquisition Group met on Tuesday, November 14. Liane Jeschull and Tom Roeper presented 'Evidentials/Certainty markers: Naturalistic evidence and experimental ideas for English'.
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!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Halloween. Tanja Heizmann presented her work on clefts and exhaustivity.
[Thanks Youri!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Tuesday, October 23. Hristo Kyuchukov, currently a visitor at Smith, presented some of his recent work.
[Thanks Youri!]
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!]
The Acquisition Lab met on Tuesday, September 26, at 12:30 pm. Helen Stickney reported on her current research.
[Thanks Youri!]
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:
[Thanks Youri!]
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'.
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.
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!]
Monday, April 10, 12:15 pm, South College 301
Everyone welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
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!]
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!]
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.
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!
