December 26-29, 2007, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Program (Online Proceedings)
Wednesday 26 December 2007
Workshop on the Acquisition of Functional Categories in Asian Languages
9:00-10:00 | Stephen Crain (Keynote Speaker, MacQuarie University) Bringing Logical Form into Focus |
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10:30-11:00 | Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) Early Acquisition of Animacy Agreement in Japanese |
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11:00-11:30 | Chisato Fuji & Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University) The Acquisition of Aspects in Japanese and Its Implications for Acquisition Theory |
11:30-12:00 | Gladys Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) The Acquisition of Perfective Aspect in Hong Kong Sign Language |
2:00-2:30 | Masahiko Dansako (Kyushu University) Undifferentiated Functional Categories in Child Japanese: Classifiers and its Syntax |
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2:30-3:00 | Miao-Ling Hsieh (National Taiwan Normal University) Acquiring Number and Referentiality in a Classifier Language |
3:00-3:30 | Sunjing Ji & Xiaolu Yang (University of Arizona & Tsinghua University) The Emergence of DE in Mandarin-speaking Children's Early Nominals |
4:00-4:30 | Yi-Ching Su (National Tsing Hua University) Resolving Children's Comprehension Difficulties on Chinese OO Relative Clauses |
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4:30-5:00 | Ruya Li (The City University of Hong Kong) Null Objects in Child Mandarin |
5:00-5:30 | Hee-Don Ahn, Jeong-Im Han, Jinju Hong, Jong-Bai Hwang & Injae Lim (Konkuk University) Processing Nominal and Verbal Suffixes by Chinese and Japanese Learners of Korean |
5:30-6:00 | Kenneth Wexler (Special Commentator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Commentary on Workshop Papers |
DAY 1: Thursday 27 December 2007
9:00-10:00 | Kenneth Wexler (Keynote Speaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Developing Phases, Verbal, Resultant State and Target State Passives, Inverse Copulas, Clefts: the Interaction of Brilliant Plasticity and Genetically Guided Principles |
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10:30-11:15 | Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) Structure Dependence in Child Japanese |
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11:15-12:00 | Takuya Goro, Tomohiro Fujii, Utako Minai & Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University, JST (RISTEX), Nanzan University & RIKEN Brain Science Institute) The Acquisition of Anti-Reconstruction and Grammar Variation in Adult Japanese |
1:30-2:15 | R. Amritavalli & K. A. Jayaseelan (Invited Speaker, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Clause Structure and Early Acquisition of Split Ergativity and Negation |
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2:15-3:00 | Keiko Murasugi, Chisato Fuji & Tomoko Hashimoto (Nanzan University) What Acquired Later in an Agglutinative Language: Implications for the v-VP Frame Analysis |
3:00-3:45 | Michelle St-Amour (McGill University & University of Toronto) The Default Parameter Setting in the Acquisition of Multiple Negation |
4:15-5:00 | Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) Featural Parameters in Austronesian Syntax |
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5:00-5:45 | Natsumi Shibata, Yasutada Sudo & Jun Yashima (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Tokyo) On Apparent DOR Violations in Chinese and Japanese Resultative Compounds |
5:45-6:30 | Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (Invited Speaker, National Tsing Hua University) On Middle Applicatives |
DAY 2: Friday 28 December 2007
8:30-9:15 | Edson T. Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba) Left-corner Parsing of Sentence-initial NPs in Japanese |
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9:15-10:00 | Fan Luo & Chunyan Ning (Institute of Cognitive Science, Hunan University & Hunan University of Chinese Medicine) The Bottom-up Processing Order of Word Category Information and Word Meaning Information: Evidence from an ERP Study in Chinese |
10:15-11:00 | Daiko Takahashi (Invited Speaker, Tohoku University) Argument Ellipsis from a Crosslinguistic Perspective: An Interim Report |
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11:00-11:45 | Bum-Sik Park & Sei-Rang Oh (Incheon City College & Gyeongsang National University) A Note on Covert Movement |
11:45-12:30 | Michael Barrie (University of British Columbia) Cyclic Linearization and the Reunification of CED |
2:00-2:45 | Jo-Wang Lin (National Chiao Tung University) Chinese Comparatives in Comparative Perspective |
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2:45-3:30 | Anne Abeille & Robert Borsley (University Paris 7 & University of Essex) On the Syntax of Comparative Correlatives |
3:30-4:15 | Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Roberta Pires de Oliveira (CNRS-LLF, Université Paris 7 & Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/CNPq) Reference to Kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: Definite Singulars vs Bare Singulars |
4:45-5:30 | Shinichiro Ishihara (University of Potsdam) Divorce of Focus Intonation from Prosodic Phrasing: Evidence from Tokyo Japanese |
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5:30-6:15 | Rahul Balusu (New York University) Consonantal Sandhi in Telugu: Variable Deletion and Overlap at Work |
DAY 3: Saturday 29 December 2007
9:00-10:00 | C.-T. James Huang (Keynote Speaker, Harvard University) Macro- and Micro-parametric Changes and the History of Chinese Syntax |
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10:30-11:15 | Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge & Newcastle University) A Phase-based Approach to the Cross-linguistic Distribution of ‘Mixed’ Word Order Types |
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11:15-12:00 | Graham Horwood (Thammasat University) Reining in GEN: The Case for a Stronger Scope Concordance Condition |
1:30-2:15 | Anoop Mahajan (Invited Speaker, University of California at Los Angeles) Reverse Engineering Two Word Order Generalizations |
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2:15-3:00 | Marco Nicolis (Georgetown University & Queen's University) The Null Subject Parameter: Expletive pro, Syntactic Doubling and pro Subextraction |
3:00-3:45 | Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University) The EP Hypothesis and A Splitting Approach to Existential there |
4:15-5:00 | Minjeong Son (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Decomposing Denominal Location Verbs: Morpho-Syntactic Evidence from Indonesian |
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5:00-5:45 | Kensuke Takita & Barry C.-Y. Yang (Nanzan University & National Tsing Hua University & Harvard University) Feature Valuation and Antisuperiority |
5:45-6:30 | Mamoru Saito (Invited Speaker, Nanzan University) Argument Ellipsis and (the Absence of) Agreement |