Language Acquisition and Development
Purpose:  an informal reading group focusing on the acquisition of human language.  We meet once every two weeks or so to discuss one or two (pre-) published articles, practise conference talks, and other acquisition-related activities.

We read about first language acquisition as well as second language acquisition; we are interested in all perspectives on language acquisition;  theoretical as well as descriptivist studies; cross-linguistic phenomena.

Fall 2008 

We plan to continue with our bi-weekly meetings. Email me if you wish to present to help with organization.

Spring 2008 

LAD resumed, email me if you want to present a paper

Fall 2003 
(for a list of previous meetings and articles, click here):

bullet  Friday December 12th
      1-3pm
       SLS Conference Room
We will read the following article:

Slabakova, Roumyana (2003). Semantic Evidence for functional categories in interlanguae grammars.  Second Language Research, Vol. 19 Issue 1, pp. 42-76.
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bullet  Wednesday October 15th
       5pm-7pm
       Moore 575

We read the following two articles:

- Hyams, Nina (2002).  Clausal Structure in Child Greek: A Reply to Varlokosta, Vainikka and Rohrbacher and a Reanalysis.  Linguistic Review, 19, 3, 225-269.
- Prevost, P. (in press). The semantic and aspectual properties of child L2 root infinitives. In P. Prévost & J. Paradis, The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on Functional Categories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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