33rd Stanford Child Language Research Forum

Location: 370 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley

Friday July 10

13:00	Registration
14:15	Opening remarks: Eve V. Clark

14:30 - 16:30 Session I: Variation and generalization

14:30	Individual differences in cognitive control among five-year-olds account for variability in online syntactic processing skill Sarah Anderson, Thomas Farmer, Jennifer Schwade, Michael Goldstein & Michael Spivey
15:00	Language input affects language uptake: Early experience with language influences processing speed and vocabulary learning Anne Fernald, Virginia Marchman & Nereyda Hurtado
15:30	Children's conservatism: only a matter of insufficient input? Jeremy Boyd & Adele Goldberg
16:00	Children's production of unfamiliar word sequences is predicted by positional variability and latent classes Danielle Matthews & Colin Bannard

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Invited talk:
Language as a process
William Croft (UNM)

18:30 Reception
(outside the conference hall)

Saturday July 11

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 10:30 Session II: Cue integration and detection-1

9:00	Children's use of disfluencies in first language acquisition Celeste Kidd, Katherine White & Richard Aslin
9:30	First inflection contrasts in Spanish verbs: exemplars in interaction Cecilia Rojas-Nieto
10:00	Toward a theory of gradual morphosyntactic learning Matthew Rispoli & Pamela Hadley

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break / Registration

11:00 - 12:30 Session III:
Cue integration and detection-2

11:00	Redundancy in children's gesture and speech combinations Barbara Kelly
11:30	Informational structures as a path to syntax Jacobo Torregrossa & Valentina Bambini
12:00	The Principle of Contrast as routinized inference about communicative intentions Susanne Grassmann & Michael Tomasello

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 Session IV: Early representations

14:30	A source for coda deletions in early child language: the lexical representation Clara Levelt
15:00	Frequency and prosody bootstrap word order: a cross-linguistic study with 7-month-old infants Judith Gervain & Janet Werker
15:30	Acquisition of a locative contrast: phonological, semantic and syntactic considerations Virve-Anneli Vihman

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Session V: Input frequency

16:30	Frequency effects and cue strength in nominal inflection: Number versus case Heike Behrens
17:00	Input and pattern frequencies matter for acquiring French past participle forms Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
17:30	Children's sensitivity to distributional patterns: re-thinking the path of relative clause acquisition Inbal Arnon

20:00 - 22:00 Pizza and Wine at a local wine-bar
(Vintage Berkeley-Elmwood Winery
949 College Avenue)

Sunday July 12

8:15 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 10:30 Round table: Units of language learning

From first words to segments: A case study in phonological development

Marilyn Vihman & Virve-Anneli Vihman

A neglected path to the production of word combinations

Ann Peters & Edy Veneziano

Development of syntactic productivity across constructions and items

Silke Brandt, Arie Verhagen, Elena Lieven & Michael Tomasello

Discussant:

Inbal Arnon

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Session VI:
Crosslinguistic differences, modeling

11:00	A computational model of the simultaneous learning of grammatical structures and statistics Eva Mok
11:30	Modelling English-speaking children's early grammars Elena Lieven, Colin Bannard & Michael Tomasello

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Invited talk:
Connecting language learning and language evolution via Bayesian statistics
Tom Griffiths (UCB)

Goodbyes!