TALKS SLATED FOR THE WORKSHOP ON FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AT THE 19TH SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS

Organized by Marit Richardsen Westergaard, University of Troms¿

JANUARY 10 - 12, 2002, UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ, NORWAY

NAME AFFILIATION TITLE OF ABSTRACT
Bentzen, Kristine University of Tromsø Acquiring V-to-I movement in the absence of morphological cues
Chiang, Pi-yu Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University Children’s Phonological Awareness in Multilingual Tasks And The Effect of Articulation Training
Gavarró, Anna Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona A subject clitic in child Catalan
Jensvoll, Maja Henriette University of Tromsø The Acquisition of Past Tense in English/Norwegian Bilingual Children
Jeschull, Liane University of Leipzig Children’s early particle verb use
Jonas, Dianne Yale University Case and Clause Structure in Faroese Child Language
Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil Department of Linguistics, University of Oslo Phonological development in a child with cri du chat syndrome
Nieminen, Lea Department of Finnish University of Jyväskylä A Morphosyntactic approach to complexity in early child language
Schütze, Carson T. UCLA The non-omission of nonfinite be
Tenbrink, Thora Spatial Cognition Priority Program & WSV, University of Hamburg, Dept. for Informatics Why Should Children Adapt, and When?
Turunen, Pirjo Finnish Department University of Jyväskylä, FINLAND Phonological skills of Finnish speaking late talkers at the age of 2;6
Westergaard, Marit.R. Universitetet i Tromsø On the Acquisition of Word Order in WH-Questions in the Tromsø Dialect

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

The workshop will cover several aspects of first language acquisition. Abstracts dealing with the acquisition of syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and pragmatics will be considered, as well as topics such as bilingual acquisition, language disorders, the significance of the input, and the role of language acquisition in language change.