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
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10:05-11:05 | Invited speaker: Katherine Demuth Macquqrie University, Sydney Phonological Constraints on Children’s Variable Production of Grammatical Morphemes |
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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 |
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12:05-12:45 | Evan Cohen Tel Aviv University Two paths – one goal: Vowel harmony in the acquisition of Hebrew |
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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 |
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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' |
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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 |
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16:50-17:30 | Natalia Ivlieva MIT Obligatory Scalar Implicatures? |
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17:30-18:10 | Lisa Bylinina Utrecht University Judge-dependence in degree constructions |
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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 |
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10:40-11:20 | Noam Faust The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Decomposing the feminine suffixes of Modern Hebrew: a morpho-syntactic analysis |
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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 |
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12:20-13:00 | Ivy Sichel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Resumptive pronouns and Competition |
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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 |
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15:10-15:50 | Andreea Nicolae Harvard University Even weak quantifiers can cause intervention |
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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 |
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16:50-17:30 | Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts Utrecht University Event Orientated Adnominals and Compositionality |
Alternates for the General Session
Julia Adler The Hebrew University of Jerusalem How a directional particle gives rise to possessive semantics |
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Andreea Nicolae and Yasutada Sudo Harvard University and MIT Disjunction and Positive Polarity |
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 |
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Shira Farby and Sharon Armon-Lotem Bar-Ilan University Compositional Semantics in Children |
The conference was supported by: Tel Aviv University School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University Rector