University College Rm: 140 (see map at bottom)
Wednesday May 25th, 2016
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Opening remarks: The complexity project
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto
9:45 Plenary: Recursion Interfaces: How Maximum Simplicity Can Organize the Acquisition Path
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
10:45 Break
11:00 Bilingual Effects in Recursive Noun Phrases
Erin Pettibone, Gabrielle Klassen & Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto
11:30 Children's use of relative clauses in recursive and non-recursive modification.
Gabrielle Klassen, Erin Hall, Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Anny P. Castilla-Earls. U. of Toronto & U. of Houston
12:00 Parameters and variation: the case of V2 relative clauses in German.
Emanuela Sanfelici, Petra Schulz, and Corinna Trabandt, Goethe University
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Telicity in SLI. Petra Schulz, Goethe University
2:15 On the development of complexity in Japanese nominal recursion
Kazuya Bamba, Midori Hayashi, Manami Hirayama & Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
2:45 Break
3:00 Experimental investigation of semantics and pragmatics in German relative clauses.
Alex Thiel, Corinna Trabandt, Emanuela Sanfelici, Petra Schulz, Goethe University
3:30 The semantics of adjectives in acquisition: First insights from production.
Merle Weicker, Goethe University
4:00 Plenary: Emergent parameters and syntactic complexity: new perspectives
Ian Roberts, Cambridge University (Joint work with Theresa Biberauer)
5:00 Closing Remarks
Yves Roberge, University of Toronto
This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
SSHRC 435-2014-2000 to A. T. Pérez-Leroux and Y. Roberge
