Previous meetings and articles

Spring 2003

Thursday May 8th 2003       5:15-7:15pm       Place:  Moore 575 We discussed two articles related to topic drop in L1 acquisition: - De Haan & Tuijnman (1988).  Missing Subjects and Objects in child grammar.  In Jordens, Peter & Lalleman, Josine (Eds) Language Development.  Foris, Providence RI. - De Cat, Cecile (2003) Early 'pragmatic' competence and null subject phenomena.  In the proceedings of Going Romance.

Thursday March 6th 2003       5:15-7:15pm       Place:  Moore 575  We discussed two articles: - Hakansson, G., M. Pienemann & S. Sayehli. 2002. Transfer and  typological proximity in the context of second language processing. Second Language Research 18: 250-73. - Yuan, Boping. 2001. The status of thematic verbs in the second language-acquisition of Chinese: Against inevitability of thematic-verb raising in second language acquisition. Second Language Research 17: 248-72.

Monday, February 24th 2003       5:15-7:15pm       Moore 202 We discussed the following article: Rohde, Andreas 2002. The aspect hypothesis in naturalistic child L2 acquisition: What uninflected and non-target-like verb forms in early interlanguage tell us. In Rafael Salaberry & Yasuhiro Shirai, eds., The L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 199-220.

Fall 2002

Wednesday October 23rd, 2002 Moore 575 Article: Petinou & Terzi (2002) Clitic Misplacement Among Normally Developing Children and Children With Specific Language Impairment and the Status of Infl Heads Language Acquisition (10) 1, 1-28.

Wednesday October 9th, 2002 Moore Hall, 103 Article: - Courtney, E. & M. Saville-Troike (2002) Learning to construct verbs in Navajo and Quechua. Journal of Child Language 29, pp.623-654.

Wednesday Septermber 24th, 2002 Moore Hall, 103 Articles: - Gavruseva & Thornton (2001) "Getting It Right: Acquisition of Whose-Questions in Child English"  Language Acquisition,  9(3), 229­267. - Gavruseva, Elena. 1998. "Left-branch violations in child L2 English." In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield & H. Walsh, eds., Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 235-45.

Monday September 9th, 2002 Moore Hall, 103 Holger Hopp University of Durham Talk entitled 'Universal constraints on L2 optionality?'

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