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.
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Previous meetings

10:15	ons 7. des 05
10:15	ons 30. nov 05
10:15	ons 23. nov 05
10:15	ons 16. nov 05
10:15	ons 9. nov 05
10:15	ons 2. nov 05
10:15	ons 26. okt 05
10:15	ons 19. okt 05
10:15	ons 12. okt 05
10:15	ons 5. okt 05
10:15	ons 28. sep 05

ons 21. sep 05	Organisational meeting
man 6. jun 05	No LARG today
man 30. mai 05	Yulia presents her own work
man 23. mai 05	Suzanne van der Feest (visiting from Nijmegen) presents her own work.
man 16. mai 05	No LARG today --- we're ironing our flags and 'bunadsskjorte' for tomorrow!
man 9. mai 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
man 2. mai 05	Margaret Kehoe & Conxita Lleó (2003): "A Phonological Analysis of schwa in German First Language Acquisition," Canadian Journal of Linguistics.
man 25. apr 05	No LARG this week!
man 18. apr 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.
man 11. apr 05	Fikkert, P. (in press?): 'Acquiring phonology,' in Handbook of Phonology.
man 4. apr 05	No LARG today -- we're on an extended Easter holiday!
man 7. mar 05	Roeper, T. and Snyder, W. (2004): 'Recursion as an analytic device in acquisition,' in Proceedings of GALA 2003.
man 28. feb 05	No meeting
man 21. feb 05	No meeting
man 14. feb 05	Marit and Kristine will present a paper they are giving at the DGfS workshop on Input Frequencies in 1-2 weeks.
man 7. feb 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.
man 31. jan 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.
man 13. des 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.
man 6. des 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.
man 29. nov 04	No LARG this week either! We're resting up to pick up null subjects again next week...
man 22. nov 04	No LARG this week
man 15. nov 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.
man 8. nov 04	Müller, N. (2000): Gender and number in acquisition, pp.351-399 in B. Unterbeck et al. (eds.) Gender in Grammar and Cognition.
man 1. nov 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
man 25. okt 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.
man 18. okt 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.
man 11. okt 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.
man 27. sep 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.
man 20. sep 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.
man 13. sep 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.
man 6. sep 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.
man 30. aug 04	Organisation meeting
tir 15. jun 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.'
tir 8. jun 04	Marit will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'
tir 25. mai 04	Merete will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'
tir 27. apr 04	Anne will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'
tir 30. mar 04	Kristine will present her 'work-in-progress' for the 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'
tir 23. mar 04	Nina will present her contribution to the Working Papers: 'The Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Russian.'
tir 16. mar 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.)
tir 17. feb 04	Organising meeting for 'Working Papers in Language Acquisition.'
tir 10. feb 04	Merete will present parts of her work on the acquisition of Norwegian DPs. NB! The meeting today will be in room A-3019.
ons 21. jan 04	Organising meeting.
tor 8. jan 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.
tor 4. des 03	Gavarró, A. (2003): 'Economy and word order patterns in bilingual English-Dutch acquisition,' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 6(1), pp. 69-79.
tor 27. nov 03	Thordardottir, E., Chapman, R.S. and Wagner, L. (2002): 'Complex sentence production by adolescents with Down syndrome,' Psycholinguistics 23, pp. 163-183.
tor 13. nov 03	Bar-Shalom, Eva (2002): 'Tense and Aspect in early child Russian,' in Language Acquisition.
tor 6. nov 03	Merete Anderssen presented her data on the acquisition of Norwegian DPs.
tor 9. okt 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.
tor 25. sep 03	Pienemann, Manfred (1998): "Developmental dynamics in L1 and L2: Processability Theory and generative entrenchment," in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
man 15. sep 03	Tracy, Rosemarie (2002), "Growing (clausal) roots: all children start out (and may remain) multilingual," in Linguistics 40.4, pp. 653-686.
man 8. sep 03	Thornton, Rosalind (2002), "Let's Change the Subject: Focus Movement in Early Grammar," in Language Acquisition 10.3, pp. 229-271.
ons 21. mai 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.
ons 7. mai 03	"The Optimal Initial State" av Shelley L. Velleman og Marilyn M. Vihman.
ons 2. apr 03	Hawkins, Roger, 2001: "The theoretical significance of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition" in Second Language Research 17, 4, pp. 345-367
ons 26. mar 03	Nick Ellis "Frequency Effects in Language Processing: A review with implications for theories of implicit and explicit language acquisition".

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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