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Wednesday 25 August 2010

14h00 - 14h15

Welcoming remarks

 

14h15 - 15h00

Syntax and processing in child Spanish: finiteness and resumption in Null Operator Structures

T. Parodi

15h00 - 15h45

Some remarks on the acquisition of inflected infinitives

A. L. Santos,  I. Duarte,  A. Pires & J. Rothman

15h45 - 16h15

Coffee break

 

16h15 - 17h00

Grammatical deficits in French-Greek Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from a case study

S. Stavrakaki, E. Petraki & M.-A. Chrysomallis

17h00 - 17h45

Processing ambiguous anaphora in the L2 English of L1 Spanish speakers

E. Valenzuela, J. Liceras, M. Tercedor,  E. Acevedo, A. Bollaín, G. Boudreau & Y. Guzman

17h45 - 18h45

Plenary 1 - Adriana Belletti (title to be announced)

 

19h00 - 20h00

Reception

 

20h00

Dinner

 
     

Thursday 26 August 2010

9h00 - 9h45

Developmental differences in the ordering of Italian near-synonymous quantifiers

R. Montalto, A. van Hout & P. Hendriks

9h45 - 10h30

Scalar Implicatures in L2 Spanish: Examining the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

T. Hasley

10h30 - 11h00

Coffee break and poster session

 

11h00 - 11h45

Perfective/imperfective aspect in Basque and Spanish child language. a comparative study

I. Garcia del Real & MŞ. J. Ezeizabarrena

11h45 - 12h30

The lexicon-syntax interface in simultaneous bilingualism: Auxiliary selection with intransitive verbs in Italian

T. Kras

12h30 - 13h45

Lunch

 

13h45 - 14h30

Plenary 2 - Maria-Joăo Freitas (title to be announced)

 

14h30 - 15h15

Constraint Re-ranking and Omission in Adult L2 Phonology: an Account in Terms of Hierarchy of Computational Costs

S. Mercier

15h15 - 16h00

On the phonology-sytnax interface: A caveat for syntactic search in first language acquisition

G. Giusti

16h00 - 16h30

Coffee break and poster session

 

16h30 - 17h15

On the role of phonological deficiency and discourse accesibility in the acquisition of 2nd and 3rd person pronouns

L. Avram & M. Coene

17h15 - 18h00

The 'grammar competition' metaphor in diachrony and SLA: Evidence from the acquisition of L2 Spanish clitics by L1 Czech and L1 English learners

S. Perales  & M. Slowik

18h00 - 18h45

Locality and C-Command: The Acquisition of Principle A in Brazilian Portuguese

E. Grolla

20h00

Banquet (location to be announced)

 
     

Friday 27 August 2010

9h00 - 9h45

Transfer in Dutch Wh-questions produced by bilingual French-Dutch children

N. Strik

9h45 - 10h30

Animacy and Extraction type in L1 French Clefts

B. Plunkett

10h30 - 11h00

Coffee break and poster session

 

11h00 - 11h45

On the acquisition of relative clauses in Romanian

A. Sevcenco & I. Stoicescu

11h45 - 12h30

On the status of embedded T in Heritage Speaker (HS) Spanish and English: Evidence from subject-to-subject raising

J. Rothman, G. Campos, A. de Prada Pérez & D.P. Cabo

12h30 - 13h45

Lunch

 

13h45 - 14h30

Plenary 3 - Ianthi Tsimpli (title to be announced)

 

14h30 - 15h15

Number features in the comprehension of object relatives: a comparison between hearing-impaired and hearing children

F. Volpato

15h15 - 16h00

Definite and bare noun contrasts in bilingual Romance/Germanic first language acquisition

P. Guijarro-Fuentes, K. Schmitz, P. Larranaga & N. Müller

16h00 - 16h30

Coffee break and poster session

 

16h30 - 17h15

The syntax-discourse interface in L2 Spanish again: computation of pragmatic features

R. Slabakova, G. Campos, T. Leal Mendez, P. Kempchinsky & J. Rothman

17h15 - 18h00

Syncretism in the pragmatic field in first language acquisition

V. Hill & M. Pirvulescu

18h00 - 18h45

Subordination and Grammaticality in the Acquisition of French by L2 children and children with SLI

M. Scheidnes, L. Tuller, P. Prévost, M. Haiden & S. Ferré

     

Alternate papers

 

Parallelism in ellipsis and L2 knowledge of number and gender

J. Bruhn de Garavito

 

Constraint reranking and optionality in L2 phonology

J. Renaud & J. Cabrelli Amaro

 

The Acquisition of Object Clitics in Cypriot Greek and the Romance Connection

K. Grohmann, E. Theodorou, N. Pavlou & E. Leivada

 

On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence in simultaneous bilingualism: Core syntax phenomena and lexical transparency 

J. Liceras, R. Fuertes Fernández, A. Alba de la Fuente, G. Boudreau & E. Acevedo

 

Morphology to Semantics mapping in L2: The acquisition of the imperfect-preterit contrast in Spanish

L. Dominguez, M.J. Arche & F. Myles

     

Posters

 

Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Greek

N. Amvrazis

 

Comprehension of Subject and Object Relatives in Child Language - A Case of Intervention Effects?

A. Bentea

 

On the late acquisition of infinitival complements of perception and causative verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

G. Freire & G. Andrade Nunes

 

The acquisition of partitive clitics by Romance 5-year-olds

A. Gavarró, M. T. Guasti, P. Prévost & L. Tuller

 

Basque children produce Subject Relatives with more accuracy than they comprehend them

J. Gutierrez & M.J. Ezeizabarrena

 

On the acquisition of external possession in L1 French

M. Milicevic

 

A Principle of Economy within Child Speech: when the Nominative Clitic does not Surface

K. Palasis

 

Delay in the Acquisitional Schedule of Subject Pronouns

M. Pinto

 

Below the Unaccusativity threshold: Eye-movements by Chinese learners of Italian on auxiliary verbs

S. Rastelli

 

Representation of Gender in Romanian and its Acquisition

P. Rucart

 

The comprehension of relative clauses by L2 learners of Greek

M. Tasioudi , S. Stavrakaki & M. T. Guasti