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| Title | Call for Papers: GLOW XXX: Optionality in the Input: Children's Acquisition of Variable Word Order |
| Body | From http://www.hum.uit.no/glow/acquisition.htm EXTENDED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1 While optionality represents a challenge for the description and analysis of adult language, it appears to be a defining characteristic of child language. For example, child languages typically exhibit a great deal of optionality as far as the inclusion of various elements is concerned. Well studied examples of this are Optional Infinitives and Null Subjects in the acquisition of Non-Null-Subject languages. Thus, optionality has received a great deal of attention in language acquisition studies. However, relatively little has been done to study how children deal with optionality in the input. The GLOW workshop on language acquisition invites abstracts that address this topic. This includes questions such as: How do children deal with word order variability in the input? Do they exhibit any preferences in such cases and what kinds of considerations influence their choices? To what extent are children sensitive to the small nuances that appear to govern adult grammars in cases of word order optionality? What, if anything, can language acquisition reveal about cases in which this kind of variation is permitted in the adult language? GLOW XXX will be held in Tromsø on April 12-14, 2007, with three workshops on April 11th. In addition to the acquisition workshop, there will be a syntax workshop on Selective Global Comparison and a phonology workshop on The Structure of Segment Inventories. The general session has no theme; Noam Chomsky will be the keynote speaker. For submission guidelines, visit http://www.hum.uit.no/glow/Call.htm . For more information about the conference, visit http://www.hum.uit.no/glow . |
| Source | Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics , University of Tromsø |
| Inputdate | 2006-11-19 08:50:54 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-11-20 00:00:00 |
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