PLC 35 Schedule of events

PLC 35: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, March 18, 2011
REGISTRATION (Claudia Cohen Hall)
Special Panel on Language Acquisition (Claudia Cohen Hall, room G17 (auditorium))
2:00 pm	Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland, Linguistics)
2:25 pm	Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware, Psychology)
2:50 pm	First Question Period
3:20 pm	Coffee Break
3:40 pm	Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow, Linguistics)
4:05 pm	Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics)
4:35 pm	Second Question Period
5:00 pm	Reception! (lobby at Claudia Cohen Hall)

SATURDAY, March 19, 2011
8:30 am-7:00 pm	REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (Claudia Cohen Hall)
8:30 am	BREAKFAST
	SESSION 1A: Syntax/Semantics Chair: Jana Beck (Cohen Hall G17)	SESSION 1B: Psycholinguistics Chair: Kyle Gorman (Cohen Hall Terrace Room)
9:15 am	The Indefinite Article- Indefinite? Article? Thomas Leu, Yale University [abstract]	Using Salience and Hypothesis Evaluation to Learn Object Names in Real Time Jon Stevens, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
9:40 am	Pronouns in Irrealis Infinitives: Structure and Licensing Natalia Fitzgibbons, Concordia University [abstract]	Language and Categorical Perception of Color Ozge Ozturk, New York University, Shakila Shayan, Ulf Liszkowski, Asifa Majid, Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics [abstract]
10:05 am	Complementizers and assertive predicates: A window into their syntax and pragmatics Fransisco José Fernández Rubiera, Universitat d'Alacant [abstract]	Is there a difference between "you" and "I"? A psycholinguistic investigation of the Chinese reflexive ziji Xiao He, Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California [abstract]
10:30 am	The Derivational Nature of External Possession Jisung Sun, Stony Brook University [abstract]	Numeric cognition among speakers of the Jarawara language Caleb Everett, University of Miami [abstract]
10:55 am	BREAK
	SESSION 2A: Movement (Syntax) Chair: Satoshi Nambu (Cohen Hall G17)	SESSION 2B: Phonology Chair: Yanyan Sui (Cohen Hall Terrace Room)
11:10 am	A Movement Analysis of French Modal Ellipsis Marc Authier, Penn State University [abstract]	Vowel Harmony in Mbili Verbs Zenghong Jia, University of Delaware [abstract]
11:35 am	On the Islandhood of Double Complementizers in Spanish Julio Villa-Garcia, University of Connecticut [abstract]	Explaining the Final Vowel Mismatch in Zulu Reduplication Toni Cook, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
noon	Cleft constructions in Japanese: New Evidence for the Base-generation Analysis Yasuhiko Miura, University of Southern California [abstract]	The Role of Negative and Positive Evidence in Adult Phonological Learning Sara Finley, University of Rochester [abstract]
12:25 pm	Change in Prosody as an Alternative: Evidence from Acquisition Roksolana Mykhaylyk, CASTL, University of Tromso [abstract]	Syntax and Prosody in Kashaya Phrasal Accent Eugene Buckley, John Gluckman, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
12:50 pm	LUNCH: There are a variety of nearby restaurants and food venues.
	SESSION 3A: Argument Structure (Syntax) Chair: Caitlin Light (Cohen Hall G17)	SESSION 3B: Semantics Chair: Catherine Lai (Cohen Hall Terrace Room)
2:30 pm	Morphology-Syntax Interface: the relation between prefixes of Brazilian Portuguese and argument structure Indaiá Bassani, University of São Paulo [abstract]	Prosody and semantics of the focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications from a perception experiment Yong-cheol Lee, Satoshi Nambu, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
2:55 pm	The Causative-Anticausative Alternation Revisited Julia Horvath, Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University [abstract]	Semantic effects on pronouns and reflexives in picture-NPs: Similarities and differences Elsi Kaiser, Monica Do, University of Southern California [abstract]
3:20 pm	Optional Se-Constructions in Romance: Syntactic Encoding of Conceptual Information Cinzia Campanini, Florian Schaefer, University of Stuttgart [abstract]	Why short form functional reading answers are not possible in multiple wh-questions Jungmin Kang, University of Connecticut [abstract]
3:45 pm	On the role of Experiencer in the Interaction of Aspect and Unaccusativity in Russian Zhanna Glushan, University of Connecticut [abstract]	Asymmetries in the Scope Behavior of Quantifiers Michael Freedman, Yale University [abstract]
4:10 pm	An Asymmetric Theory of Korean Ditransitives: Evidence from Idioms Lan Kim, University of Delaware [abstract]	Lexicalized Focus on Tense: AAE Remote Past BIN as a Variation on Verum Focus Brittany McLaughlin, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
4:35 pm	BREAK
5:30 pm-7 pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Competence, Performance, and Language Acquisition Virginia Valian, CUNY, Hunter College
9:00 pm	PARTY! (Information and directions will be included in the registration packet.)
SUNDAY, March 20, 2011
9:45 am-1:25 pm	REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (Claudia Cohen Hall)
9:45 am	BREAKFAST
	SESSION 4A: Syntax Chair: Aviad Eilam (Cohen Hall G17)	SESSION 4B: Socio/Historical Chair: Brittany McLaughlin (Cohen Hall Terrace Room)
10:15 am	Null Subject Behavior in the Attrition of Brazilian Portuguese Tammer Castro, Florida International University [abstract]	Linguistic change in rural child and adolescent Syrian Arabic Rania Habib, Syracuse University [abstract]
10:40 am	Clitic Right Dislocation in absence of clitics: a case study in trilingual acquisition Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli, Alison Henry, Christina Sevdali, University of Ulster [abstract]	Rule insertion revisited Jonathan Gress-Wright, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
11:05 am	Case Asymmetries in Korean Junghyoe Yoon, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University [abstract]	Redevelopment of a Morphological Class Josef Fruehwald, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
11:30 am	Syntactic positions of bare NPs in Turkish: Some implications from Aspect and Prosody Miho Nagai, CUNY Graduate Center, Oner Ozcelik, McGill University [abstract]	The information structure of subject extraposition in Early New High German Caitlin Light, University of Pennsylvania [abstract]
11:55 am	BREAK
	SESSION 5A: Minimalism (Syntax) Chair: Toni Cook (Cohen Hall G17)	SESSION 5B: Phonology Chair: Laurel MacKenzie (Cohen Hall Terrace Room)
12:10 pm	Adjunction, Phases, and Complex Predicates in Japanese Masahiko Takahashi, University of Connecticut [abstract]	Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place contrasts Kelly Garvey, Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University [abstract]
12:35 pm	Toward a Phase Account of Dependent Case Ivona Kucerova, McMaster University [abstract]	The role of perception in loanword adaptation: Evidences from Nepali Cesar Koirala, University of Delaware [abstract]
1:00 pm	What can resumption in Serbo-Croatian tell us about the interpretability of features? Ivana Mitrovic, Stony Brook University [abstract]
1:25 pm	END OF PLC 35