--------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-7-333. Sat Mar 2 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 188 Subject: 7.333, Confs: Lang acquisition (GALA 1997), Northwest Ling Conference Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar(a)tam2000.tamu.edu> Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry(a)emunix.emich.edu> (On Leave) T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. <dseely(a)emunix.emich.edu> Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin(a)emunix.emich.edu> Assistant Editors: Ron Reck <rreck(a)emunix.emich.edu> Ann Dizdar <dizdar(a)tam2000.tamu.edu> Annemarie Valdez <avaldez(a)emunix.emich.edu> Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers(a)emunix.emich.edu> Editor for this issue: dizdar(a)tam2000.tamu.edu (Ann Dizdar) We'd appreciate your limiting conference announcements to 150 lines, so that we can post more than 1 per issue. Please consider omitting information useful only to attendees, such as information on housing, transportation, or rooms and times of sessions. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------Directory----------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:33:37 GMT From: heycock(a)ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock) Subject: Conf. announcement: GALA 97 in Edinburgh 2) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:47:59 PST From: mgalvao(a)u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao) Subject: NWLC 1996 Program ---------------------------------Messages------------------------------------ 1) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:33:37 GMT From: heycock(a)ling.ed.ac.uk (Caroline Heycock) Subject: Conf. announcement: GALA 97 in Edinburgh International Conference on Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing GALA 1997 4th - 6th April 1997 University of Edinburgh ---- INVITED SPEAKERS ---- Melissa Bowerman Nina Hyams Peter Jusczyk Steven Pinker Andrew Radford Bonnie D. Schwartz Paul Smolensky This, the third of the GALA conferences on Language Acquisition, will be held at the University of Edinburgh in 1997. Building on the success of its predecessors (Groningen 1995, Durham 1993), this conference aims to encourage a spirit of dialogue between linguistically-oriented and psychologically-oriented researchers. A call for papers and posters will be issued shortly. Organisers: Antonella Sorace (Applied Linguistics), Caroline Heycock (Linguistics), Richard Shillcock (Cognitive Science). Address for email correspondence: gala97(a)ling.ed.ac.uk Other correspondence: GALA 97 HCRC, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:47:59 PST From: mgalvao(a)u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao) Subject: NWLC 1996 Program Northwest Linguistics Conference University of Washington Saturday, March 30th 8:30 BREAKFAST 9:00-9:30 Eliminating Overt Verb-Movement in Korean and Checking Theory Tai-Soo Kim, University of Washington 9:30-10:00 Long-Distance Anaphora: the Minimalist Approach Hyeran Lee, University of Florida 10:00-10:30 Attributive Adjectives and Case Matching Enrique Mallen, Texas A&M University 10:30-10:45 BREAK 10:45-11:15 Syntactic Analysis of Focus Sentences in Japanese and its Implication Yuki Matsuda, University of Southern California 11:15-11:45 Right Dislocation as IP-ellipsis Yael Sharvit, Rutgers University 11:45-12:15 Overt Expletive Subjects in Pro-drop Languages Luis Silva-Villar, UCLA 12:15-12:45 Metalinguistic Use of "Any" and the Distribution of Free-Choice Items in Polarity Contexts Subhadra Ramachandran, University of Ottawa, Canada 12:45 LUNCH 2:15-3:15 *Invited Speaker: Heles Contreras 'Deconstructing Weak Crossover' 3:15-3:45 Locative and Temporal Weak Proforms Javier Gutierrez and Luis Silva, UCLA 3:45-4:15 Mora Conservation in Optimality Theory: evidence from Spanish diminutives Gorka Elordieta, University of Southern California Maria M. Carreira, California State University at Long Beach 4:15-4:30 BREAK 4:30-5:00 Suprasegmental Changes in Progress: Parallelism Between Japanese and English Noriko Hattori, Mie University, Japan 5:00-5:30 Untitled Bowen Hui, University of British Columbia, Canada 5:30-6:00 Categorial and Phi-Features in Language Disorders Monica Eszter Sanchez, Brock University, Canada 6:00 DINNER Sunday, March 31st 8:30 BREAKFAST 9:00-9:30 The Acquisition of Determiner Phrases in Early Child Language Ute Bohnacker, University of Durham, England 9:30-10:00 Morpheme Acquisition and the Count/Mass Distinction of Nouns Keiko Okada and Yoichi Miyamoto, Ohio University 10:00-10:30 Assimilation, Weakening and Geminate Inalterability Chang-Kook Suh, University of Arizona 10:30-10:45 BREAK 10:45-11:15 Nasal Harmony is Strictly Local Rachel Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz 11:15-11:45 An Analogical Approach to German Plural Formation Douglas J Wulf, University of Washington 11:45-12:15 Propositional Anaphora and Presupposition Denial Orin Percus, MIT 12:15-12:45 Contrastive and Exhaustive Focus Readings in Korean Mean-Young Song, Georgetown University 12:45 LUNCH 2:15-3:15 *Invited Speaker: Siri Tuttle 3:15-3:45 Syntax and Discourse Function of "Wa" Marking in Japanese Akihiko Uechi, University of British Columbia, Canada 3:45-4:15 Transitivity and Japanese Floating Numeral Quantifiers Yuji Yamaura, Saga College, Japan 4:15-4:45 Referentiality Effects and Verb Compounds Ke Zou, California State University 4:45-5:00 SNACK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-7-333.