Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic
Communication (CSLDLC) - University of Bucharest 2011 BUCHAREST COLLOQUIUM OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (BUCLA) T TH HE E C CO OR RR RE EL LA AT TI IO ON N B BE ET TW WE EE EN N M MO OR RP PH HO OL LO OG GY Y A AN ND D S SY YN NT TA AX X I IN N L LA AN NG GU UA AG GE E A AC CQ QU UI IS SI IT TI IO ON N From the study of TD acquisition to the identification of language impairment markers Keynote speakers Maria Teresa Guasti Universit degli Studi di Milano Biccoca Jacqueline van Kampen UiL OTS, Utrecht University Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Bucharest December 15-16, 2011 Carol I Central University Library ORGANIZER Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication (CSLDLC) - University of Bucharest PARTNER Carol I Central University Library ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Larisa Avram Oana Svescu Anca Sevcenco Funded by: CNCS Romania, National Research Council University of Bucharest C CCN NNC CCS SS P PPN NN- --I III II- --I IID DDE EEI II- --W WWE EE- -- 2 220 001 111 11- --3 33 C CCN NNC CCS SS P PPN NN- --I III II- --I IID DDE EEI II- --2 220 000 008 88- --2 22 Thursday, 15 December Time 9:30- 9:45 Registration 9:45-10.00 Opening address 10.00 - 11.00 Keynote speaker Maria Teresa Guasti, Universit degli Studi di Milano Biccoca Questioning in time and space 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 - 12.10 Cristina Mni, University of Bucharest The comprehension of exhaustive wh-questions in child Romanian 12.10 - 12.50 Elena Buja, Transilvania University, Braov Event conflation in child Romanian 12.50 - 13.30 Ioana Stoicescu, University of Bucharest Lexical aspect and verbal inflection in child Romanian 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:30 Keynote speaker Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Language learnability and language impairment: the Interpretability Hypothesis 15:30 - 16:10 Martine Coene and Larisa Avram Free University Amsterdam and University of Bucharest (A)symmetries in the acquisition of object clitics 16:10 - 16.30 Coffee break 16:30 17.10 Adela Simoiu, University of Bucharest The preverbal subject in Romanian: a topic/focus position: Evidence from second language learning 17:10 17:50 Otilia Negru, University of Bucharest Early subjects and unaccusativity in child Romanian Friday, 16 December Time 9:30- 10:30 Keynote speaker Jacqueline van Kampen, UiL, OTS, Utrecht University The acquisition of topic shift 10:30- 11:00 Coffee break 11.00 - 11.40 Anca Sevcenco and Larisa Avram, University of Bucharest Syntactic cues in the comprehension of Romanian direct object relatives 11.40 12:20 Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest Genericity and tense. Predictions for language acquisition 12.20 - 13.00 Veronica Tomescu, University of Bucharest Early Hungarian particles and Romanian directionals in Romanian-Hungarian bilingual setting 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 14.40 Mihaela Tnase Dogaru, University of Bucharest On the acquisition of Romanian pseudo-partitives 14.40 - 15:20 Daria Protopopescu, University of Bucharest Adverb placement in child Romanian 15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Round table: From the study of language acquisition by TD children to the identification of speech impairment markers . 17:00 - 17.30 Closing remarks