Language Acquisition Lab - Recent Presentations
Recent & Forthcoming Research Presentations
Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008, September). Focus in Child Language: Evidence from the Acquisition of Chinese. Paper to be presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 3, University of Connecticut in Storrs, United States.
Jensen B., Notley, A., Ursini, F., & Crain, S. (2008, July). Universal quantification in child English: no symmetry required. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Sydney.
Ursini, F., Jensen, B., & Notley, A. (2008, March). At the early stages of universal quantification. Paper presented at the 9th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Toyko, Japan.
Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008, March). Scope Assignment in Chinese: Why Children and Adults differ. Paper presented at the 9th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
Crain, S. (2007, December). Workshop on acquisition of functional categories in Asian languages. Keynote paper presented at the 6th Conference on Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Zhou, P., & Gao, L.Q. (2007, December). L1 Processing of Relative Scope in Chinese. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages ( PEARL ), Tainan, Taiwan.
Crain, S. (2007, September). Semantic universals in child/adult language. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Barcelona, Spain.
Jensen, B., & Thornton, R. (2007, September). Children's answers to wh-questions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Adelaide.
Tesan, G. & Crain, S. (2007, September). Licensing Negative Polarity Items: evidence from magnetoencephalography. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Adelaide, Australia.
Thornton, R., & Jensen, B. (2007, September). Fragments of child grammar. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Barcelona.
Jensen, B., & Thornton, R. (2007, August). Fragments of Child Grammar. Paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, King's College London.
Crain, S. (2007, January). Plenary Speaker. Keynote paper presented at the Portuguese Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, Evora, Portugal.
Tesan, G, & Thornton, R. (2007, January). Sentential negation in English-speaking children. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Anaheim, USA.
Thornton, R. (2007, January). Models of parameter setting. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Anaheim, USA.
Thornton, R. (2006, July). Parameter setting and statistical learning. Keynote paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, Australia.
Crain, S. (2006, June). Has brain imaging told us anything about language (so far)? Invited presentation given at the fMRI Experience 8, University of Melbourne.
Crain, S. (2006, January). Deep semantic structure. Invited presentation given at the Latsis Colloquium, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.