Smith College will host the “University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut and Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop” (UUSLAW) on Saturday, November 7. The talks, below, will be in McConnell Hall 103.
9.30am Coffee, tea and bagels Foyer of McConnell
10 am Andie Faber (U.Mass) “Assigning and incorporating grammatical gender in L1 and L2 speakers of gendered languages”
10.40am Emma Nguyen (U.Conn) "Some thoughts on English-speaking children's comprehension of long passives"
11.20am Ryosuke Hattori (U.Conn) "On The Majority Influence in English-Chinese Japanese Trilingual Acquisition"
11.50pm Mantoa Smouse (UCT, visiting Smith) “The Acquisition of Disjoint Morphemes in isiXhosa”
12.30-2 Lunch break (we will provide, but other options available locally!) Foyer of McConnell
2pm Kadir Gökgöz (U.Conn) "IX arguments in code-blending: asymmetries between subjects and objects"
2.30pm Meghan Armstrong (U. Mass) “Catalan-speaking children's multimodal perception of disbelief”
3.10pm Vanessa Petroj (U. Conn) "Article Distribution in English-ASL Code-blended Whispered Speech"
3:50pm tea break Foyer of McConnell
4.10pm Renato Lacerda (U.Conn) "Contrastive topicalization in early English: initial questions"
4.40pm Michael Clauss, Tom Roeper and Barbara Pearson (U.Mass) “Examining restrictiveness and the semantic correlates of recursion”
