Date and time: Wednesdays, 10:15-12:00 Venue: C-1004 Contact person: Marit R. Westergaard

The Language Acquisition Project Group meets every week for informal discussions on current papers in language acquisition. We have mainly focused on monolingual first language acquisition, but we have previously also read articles on second language acquisition, bilingualism, and impaired language acquisition. The specific articles to be read and discussed are decided on an ongoing basis.


The articles are usually made available in the copy room on the second floor of the East Bloc. There should always be a master copy in a folder, so if you don’t find a stapled copy, make yourself a copy from the master but then leave the master behind for the next person.
Read more about acquisition projects here.

Next Acquisition Meeting



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Previous meetings

Wed Dec 7 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Nov 30 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Nov 23 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Nov 16 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Nov 9 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Nov 2 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Oct 26 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Oct 19 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Oct 12 05	LARG  *
Wed Oct 5 05	Acquisition Reading Group  *
Wed Sep 28 05	Language Acquisition Reading Group  *

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Wed Sep 21 05	Organisational meeting  *
Mon Jun 6 05	No LARG today  *
Mon May 30 05	Yulia presents her own work  *
Mon May 23 05	Suzanne van der Feest (visiting from Nijmegen) presents her own work.  *
Mon May 16 05	No LARG today --- we're ironing our flags and 'bunadsskjorte' for tomorrow!  *
Mon May 9 05	Michele L. Morrisette, Daniel A. Dinnsen & Judith A. Gierut (2003): "Markedness and Context Effects in the Acquisition of Place Features," Canadian Journal of Linguistics  *
Mon May 2 05	Margaret Kehoe & Conxita Lleó (2003): "A Phonological Analysis of schwa in German First Language Acquisition," Canadian Journal of Linguistics.  *
Mon Apr 25 05	No LARG this week!  *
Mon Apr 18 05	Bohnacker, U. (in press): 'Non-native acquisition of Verb Second: On the empirical underpinnings of universal L2 claims,' in Marcel den Dikken & Christina Tortora (eds.) The Function of Function Words and Funsctional Categories, John Benjamins.  *
Mon Apr 11 05	Fikkert, P. (in press?): 'Acquiring phonology,' in Handbook of Phonology.  *
Mon Apr 4 05	No LARG today -- we're on an extended Easter holiday!  *
Mon Mar 7 05	Roeper, T. and Snyder, W. (2004): 'Recursion as an analytic device in acquisition,' in Proceedings of GALA 2003.  *
Mon Feb 28 05	No meeting  *
Mon Feb 21 05	No meeting  *
Mon Feb 14 05	Marit and Kristine will present a paper they are giving at the DGfS workshop on Input Frequencies in 1-2 weeks.  *
Mon Feb 7 05	Josefsson, Gunlög (2004): 'Input and output: Sentence patterns in child and adult Swedish,' pp. 95-133 in Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack & Gisela Håkansson (eds.) The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  *
Mon Jan 31 05	Schönenberger, M. (2002): 'Non-target-consistent verb placement and the problem of parameter setting,' in J. Costa & M.J. Freitas (eds.) Proceedings of the GALA 2001 Conference on Language Acquisition. Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica, Lisboa.   *
Mon Dec 13 04	Levy, Y. & A. Vainikka (1999/2000): 'The Development of a Mixed Null Subject System: A Crosslinguistic Perspective with Data on the Acquisition of Hebrew,' Language Acquisition 8(4):363-384.  *
Mon Dec 6 04	Avram, Larisa and Martine Coene (2004): 'What Early Clitics Can Tell Us about Early Subjects,' In: van Kampen, J. and Baauw, S. (Eds.) Groceedings of GALA 2003: 93-102.  *
Mon Nov 29 04	No LARG this week either! We're resting up to pick up null subjects again next week...  *
Mon Nov 22 04	No LARG this week  *
Mon Nov 15 04	Rowland, C. et al. (2003): 'Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech,' Journal of Child Language 30:609-635.  *
Mon Nov 8 04	Müller, N. (2000): Gender and number in acquisition, pp.351-399 in B. Unterbeck et al. (eds.) Gender in Grammar and Cognition.  *
Mon Nov 1 04	Gordishevsky, G. and Avrutin, S. (2004): "Optional omissions in an optionally Null Subject language," pp. 187-198 in J. van Kampen & S. Baauw (eds.) Proceedings of GALA 2003, Vol.1  *
Mon Oct 25 04	Commentaries to Roeper, T. (1999): 'Universal Bilingualism,' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2(3), pp. 187-203 (D. Ayoun, H. Haider, R. Hawkins, A. Hulk, M. Meechan, W. O'Neil, and C. Yang) + Roeper's response, pp. 204-208.   *
Mon Oct 18 04	Roeper, T. (1999): 'Universal Bilingualism,' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2(3), pp. 169-186. AND Kampen, J. van (2004): 'An acquisitional view on optionality,' Lingua 114, pp. 1133-1146.  *
Mon Oct 11 04	Hyltenstam, K. & N. Abrahamsson (2003): 'Maturational constraints in second language acquisition,' in C.J. Doughty & M.H. Long (eds.) Handbook of second language acquisition, Blackwell.  *
Mon Sep 27 04	Weyerts, H., M. Penke, T. F. Münte, H.-J. Heinze and H. Clahsen (2002): ‘Word Order in Sentence Processing: An experimental study of verb placement in German,’ Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 31.  *
Mon Sep 20 04	Santelmann, L., S. Berk, J. Austin, S. Somashekar & B. Lust (2002): ‘Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions: dissociating movement and inflection’, Journal of Child Language 29: 813-842.  *
Mon Sep 13 04	Valian, V. & L. Casey (2003): ‘Young Children's acquisition of wh-questions: the role of structured input,’ Journal of Child Language 30: 117-143.  *
Mon Sep 6 04	Rowland, C. & Pine, J. (2000): 'Subject-auxiliary inversion errors and wh-question acquisition: ‘what children do know?’,' Journal of Child Language 27, 157-181. AND Van Valin, R. (2002): 'The development of subject-auxiliary inversion in English wh-questions: an alternative analysis,' Journal of Child Language 29, 161-175.  *
Mon Aug 30 04	Organisation meeting  *
Tue Jun 15 04	The exact date has not been set yet, but some time towards the end of June, Thorbjörg will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue Jun 8 04	Marit will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue May 25 04	Merete will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue Apr 27 04	Anne will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue Mar 30 04	Kristine will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue Mar 23 04	Nina will present her contribution to the Working Papers: 'The Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Russian.'  *
Tue Mar 16 04	Yang, C. D. (2002): ch. 4 'Grammar Competition in Children's Syntax,' (in the book "Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language", Oxford University Press.)  *
Tue Feb 17 04	Organising meeting for 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'  *
Tue Feb 10 04	Merete will present parts of her work on the acquisition of Norwegian DPs. NB! The meeting today will be in room A-3019.  *
Wed Jan 21 04	Organising meeting.  *
Thu Jan 8 04	Müller, N. (2000): "Gender and number acquisition," pp. 351-399 in B. Unterbeck et al. (eds.) Gender in Grammar and Cognition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  *
Thu Dec 4 03	Gavarró, A. (2003): 'Economy and word order patterns in bilingual English-Dutch acquisition,' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 6(1), pp. 69-79.  *
Thu Nov 27 03	Thordardottir, E., Chapman, R.S. and Wagner, L. (2002): 'Complex sentence production by adolescents with Down syndrome,' Psycholinguistics 23, pp. 163-183.  *
Thu Nov 13 03	Bar-Shalom, Eva (2002): 'Tense and Aspect in early child Russian,' in Language Acquisition.  *
Thu Nov 6 03	Merete Anderssen presented her data on the acquisition of Norwegian DPs.   *
Thu Oct 9 03	Fikkert, P. (2000), "Acquisition of phonology," in L. Cheng and R. Sybesma (eds.), The First GLOT International State-of-the-Article Book. The Latest in Linguistics. Studies in Generative Grammar 48. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.   *
Thu Sep 25 03	Pienemann, Manfred (1998): "Developmental dynamics in L1 and L2: Processability Theory and generative entrenchment," in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.  *
Mon Sep 15 03	Tracy, Rosemarie (2002), "Growing (clausal) roots: all children start out (and may remain) multilingual," in Linguistics 40.4, pp. 653-686.  *
Mon Sep 8 03	Thornton, Rosalind (2002), "Let's Change the Subject: Focus Movement in Early Grammar," in Language Acquisition 10.3, pp. 229-271.   *
Wed May 21 03	Haznedar, B. (2003), "The status of functional categories in child second lanaguage acquisition: evidence from the acquisition of CP", in Second Language Research 19.1, pp. 1-41.   *
Wed May 7 03	"The Optimal Initial State" av Shelley L. Velleman og Marilyn M. Vihman.  *
Wed Apr 2 03	Hawkins, Roger, 2001: "The theoretical significance of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition" in Second Language Research 17, 4, pp. 345-367   *
Wed Mar 26 03	Nick Ellis "Frequency Effects in Language Processing: A review with implications for theories of implicit and explicit language acquisition".  *

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Events in previous semesters:

• December 11 2002:
  Pullum, Geoffrey and Scholz, Barbara. 2002. ‘Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments,’ The Linguistic Review 19:9-50.
  
  
• November 27 2002:
  Becker, Misha. ‘Acquiring a grammar with covert head incorporation: The case of have as a complex verb,’
  
  
• November 13 2002:
  Hyams, Nina. 2000. ‘Finiteness, Aspect, and Mood in Early Grammar: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective,’ in Arika Okrent & John P. Boyle (eds) Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 36), pp. 389-415.
  
  
• October 30 2002:
  Akhtar, Nameera. 1999. ‘Acquiring basic word order: Evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure,’ Journal of Child Language 26:339-356.
  
  
• Brooks, Patricia and Michael Tomasello. 1999. ‘How children constrain their argument structure constructions,’ Language 75.4:720-738.
  
  
• October 16 2002:
  T. Sima Paribakht and Marjorie Wesche. 1998.‘Reading and “Incidental” L2 Vocabulary Acquisition,’ Studies in Second Language Acquisition 21:195-224.
  
  
• October 2 2002:
  Stoll, Sabine. 1998. ‘The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian Aspect,’ First Language 18:351-377.
  
  
• September 18 2002:
  Behrens, Heike. 1998. ‘How difficult are complex verbs? Evidence from German, Dutch, and English.’ Linguistics 36.4:679-712.
  
  
• September 4 2002:
  Rispens, J., R. Bastiaanse, and R. van Zonneveld. 2001. ‘Negation in agrammatism: a cross-linguistic comparison.’ Journal of Neurolinguistics 14:59-83.
  
  SPRING 2002:
  
  
• May 8 2002:
  Crago, Martha B. & Shanley E.M. Allen. 2001. ‘Early finiteness in Inuktitut: The role of language structure and input,’ Language Acquisition 9.1:59-111.
  
  
• April 10 2002:
  Wagner, Laura. 2001. ‘Aspectual influences on early tense comprehension.’ Journal of Child Language 28:661-681.
  
  
• March 13 2002:
  Ingham, Richard. 1993/1994. ‘Input and learnability: Direct-object omissibility in English.’ Language Acquisition 3.2:95-120.
  
  
• February 13 2002:
  Höhle, B., J. Weissenborn, M. Schmitz, and A. Ischebeck. 2000. ‘Discovering Word Order Regularities: The role of prosodic information for early parameter setting,’ in J. Weissenborn and B. Höhle (eds) (2000), Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition, Vo. 1, John Benjamins.
  
  Penner, Z., K. Wymann, and J. Weissenborn. 2000. ‘On the Prosody-Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order,’ in J. Weissenborn and B. Höhle (eds) (2000), Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition, Vo. 1, John Benjamins.

  
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