2005

December 2005

• William O’Grady published two books this year.  The first, Syntactic Carpentry (Erlbaum), is a research monograph devoted to exploring an emergentist approach to sentence formation and language acquisition. Brian MacWhinney of Carnegie Mellon University has called the book ‘our first clear vision of what it means to explore an emergentist account of real syntax. ’William’s second book, How Children Learn Language (Cambridge University Press) provides a highly readable overview of the language acquisition process and of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate this phenomenon.
• The student-run Language Documentation Center was awarded first place in the category of Cultural Sustainability in the first annual UHM Sustainability Awards. 

September 2005

• Kamil Ud Deen published a research monograph entitled The Acquisition of Swahili with the prestigious John Benjamins Publishing group. The book is the first investigation of the acquisition of Swahili, and provides an overview of the acquisition of the various inflectional morphemes in Swahili.

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