Program: IATL 28

Tel Aviv University, Webb building, Hall 001

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

9:00-10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00-10:05 Welcoming remarks
Special Session: Language Acquisition
10:05-11:05 Invited speaker: Katherine Demuth
Macquqrie University, Sydney
Phonological Constraints on Children’s Variable Production of Grammatical Morphemes
pdf
11:05-11:25 Coffee break
11:25-12:05 Outi Bat-El
Tel Aviv University
The effect of developmental pace on developmental path: A study on phonology-morphology interface
pdf
12:05-12:45 Evan Cohen
Tel Aviv University
Two paths – one goal: Vowel harmony in the acquisition of Hebrew
pdf
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Yehuda N. Falk, in memoriam
14:30-15:10 Irena Botwinik, Reem Beshara and Sharon Armon-Lotem
Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University
(Unique) errors in the acquisition of relative clauses in Palestinian Arabic and their (movement) account
pdf
15:10-15:50 Micha Y. Breakstone and Malka Rappaport Hovav
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Too Many Ways of Interpreting 'What Infants Know about Syntax'
pdf
15:50-16:10 Coffee break
General Session
16:10-16:50 Yael Greenberg and Moria Ronen
Bar-Ilan University
Three approximators which are almost / more or less / be-gadol the same
pdf
16:50-17:30 Natalia Ivlieva
MIT
Obligatory Scalar Implicatures?
pdf
17:30-18:10 Lisa Bylinina
Utrecht University
Judge-dependence in degree constructions
pdf
19:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

10:00-10:40 Irena Botwinik and Aviad Albert
Tel-Aviv University
The occurrence of šel in Hebrew Binominal Constructions: A prosodic account
pdf
10:40-11:20 Noam Faust
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Decomposing the feminine suffixes of Modern Hebrew: a morpho-syntactic analysis
pdf
11:20-11:40 Coffee break
11:40-12:20 Ilona Spector Shirtz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Specificational Copular Sentences: the Case of Hebrew Cleftoids
pdf
12:20-13:00 Ivy Sichel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Resumptive pronouns and Competition
pdf
13:00-13:20 Business Meeting
13:20-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:10 David Erschler
Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
Sluicing-like phenomena and the location of CP in Ossetic
pdf
15:10-15:50 Andreea Nicolae
Harvard University
Even weak quantifiers can cause intervention
pdf
15:50-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-16:50 Galit W. Sassoon and Natalia Zevakhina
LLCC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Granularity shifting: Experimental evidence from numerals vs. adjectives
pdf
16:50-17:30 Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts
Utrecht University
Event Orientated Adnominals and Compositionality
pdf

Alternates for the General Session

Julia Adler
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
How a directional particle gives rise to possessive semantics
pdf
Andreea Nicolae and Yasutada Sudo
Harvard University and MIT
Disjunction and Positive Polarity
pdf

Alternates for the Special Session on Language Acquisition

Michal Biran and Esther Ruigendijk
Haifa University and University of Oldenburg
Case and grammatical gender information in German- and Hebrew-speaking children
pdf
Shira Farby and Sharon Armon-Lotem
Bar-Ilan University
Compositional Semantics in Children
pdf

The conference was supported by: Tel Aviv University School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University Rector