Workshop on Recursion
1-5PM
Wednesday November 5, 2014
N400 ILC
Everyone is invited to a small workshop on Recursion and Experimentation (with work from Dutch, Japanese, Wapachana, Spanish, English)
Goals:
a) to contrast experiments in different languages and different methods
b) see if Abstract Triggers can be made experimentally clear.
1:00-1:15 Introduction and Question Agenda (bring your questions) on experimentation, bilingualism, pedagogy 100-115
1:15-1:45 Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen): Recursion in NEMO! (Amsterdam Library Results)
1:45-2:15 Jon Nelson (UMass) 'L1 and L2 PP recursion--experimental ideas and observations'
2:15-2:45 Terue Nakato (Kitasato University): Multiple No's in Japanese: Is Recursion Difficult for Children?
2:45-3:15
3:15-3:45 Ana Perez (Uniersity of Toronto) The acquisition of the varieties of recursion: Preliminary remarks
3:45-4:15 Luiz Amaral (UMass) Recursion in Wapachana 3:15-3:45
4:15-4:30 Tom Roeper (UMass) Comments on talks: Connecting Theory and Experiment. Are there Abstract Triggers for Recurison?
4:30-5:15 General discussion: 4:15-5:15 (including Piraha Researchers on skype)
What challenges exist for extending experimentsacross languages?Is bilingualism a special challenge for recursion?Does pedagogy follow from good experiments?
Pizza dinner at Tom’s house at 6:30. All are welcome!
