The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America (GALANA)

Please cite the proceedings as:

Deen, K.U., J. Nomura, B. Schulz and B.D. Schwartz (eds), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America, Honolulu, HI. University of Connecticut
Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 4, pp xx-xx.

Table of Contents

Volume 1.
   
Aspect Matters (Plenary Address)
Nina Hyams (1-18)
   
Grammatically-Based Target-Inconsistencies in Child Language (Syntax / Acquisition Tutorial)
Luigi Rizzi (19-49)

   
The Bankruptcy of the Stimulus (Plenary Address)
Rex A. Sprouse (51-63)
   
Acquisition of A-Movement
Misha Becker  (65-75)
   
(Mis)interpretations of Adverbials at the Left-edge in Early English-French as a Reflex of the Sentence Processor
Laurent Dekydtspotter and Audrey Liljestrand  (77-88)
   
What can Production Reveal about Principle B?
Jill G. de Villiers, Jacqueline Cahillane and Emily Altreuter (89-100)
   
Acquiring Particle Verbs: Age and Transfer Effects in SLA
Jill Gilkerson (101-112)
   
Subject Realization in Early Hebrew/English Bilingual Acquisition: The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence
Aviya Hacohen and Jeannette Schaeffer (113-124)
   
Children’s Passives and Their Resulting Interpretation
Christopher Hirsch and Ken Wexler (125-136)
   
L2 Processing of German Word Order Variation
Holger Hopp (137-148)
   
On Root Infinitives in Early Child Russian
Elena Kallestinova (149-160)
   
The L2 Acquisition of Japanese Complex Relative Clauses
Yuhko Kayama (161-169)
   
Adult L2-learners Lack the Maximality Presupposition, Too!
Heejeong Ko, Tania Ionin, and Ken Wexler (171-182)
   
Learning to Control L2 Prosody
Mariko Kondo (183-193)
   
The Position of Early WH-Elements in American Sign Language and Brazilian Sign Language
Diane Lillo-Martin and Ronice Müller de Quadros (195-203)
   
Semantic Interactions of Quantificational Expressions in Child Language
Utako Minai and Stephen Crain (205-216)
   
Covert Downward Entailment in Child English and Japanese
Utako Minai, Takuya Goro and Stephen Crain (217-228)
   
   
Volume 2.

Where does It Land?
Yoichi Miyamoto and Keiko Okada (229-240)
   
The Parameter of Clitic-Climbing: The View from Child Spanish
Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, William Snyder, and Koji Sugisaki (241-248)
   
Default Pronouns and Root Infinitives in Malagasy Acquisition
Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Cecile Manorohanta (249-260)
   
Against Morphological Transfer
Eunjeong Oh and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (261-272)
   
Knowledge of Binding, Raising and Passives in Williams Syndrome
Alexandra Perovic and Ken Wexler (273-284)
   
The Imperative as RI Analogue: New Data and Competing Theories
Manola Salustri and Nina Hyams (285-296)
   
Parameter Missetting and Later Resetting
Manuela Schönenberger (297-308)
   
Wh-scope Marking in German-English and Japanese-English Interlanguage: Does Inter-learner Variation Reflect Syntactic or Processing Differences?
Barbara Schulz (309-320)
   
Learnability in the L2A of Semantics
Roumyana Slabakova (321-332)
   
Acquisition of L2 Gender: Locating the Source of the Problem
Patti Spinner and Alan Juffs (333-344)
   
Evaluating the Variational Model of Language Acquisition
Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder (345-352)
   
Shifting Standards: Children’s Understanding of Gradable Adjectives
Kristen Syrett, Evan Bradley, Christopher Kennedy,
and Jeffrey Lidz (353-364)
   
On the Role of the L1 in the L2 Acquisition of German Word Order by Young English-Speaking Children
Jennie Tran (365-376)
   
Prosodic Constraints on the Production of Grammatical Morphemes in Early French: The Case of Determiners
Annie Tremblay (377-388)
   
Wh-movement in L2 Grammars: Evidence for Parameter Resetting
Mari Umeda (389-400)
   
Scrambled Indefinite NPs in Child L2 Dutch: Comparing Production and Comprehension
Sharon Unsworth (401-412)
   
The Economy Hierarchy of Referential Dependencies in Child Language: Evidence from Dutch VP-ellipsis
Nada Vasic, Sergey Avrutin and Esther Ruigendijk (413-424)
   
Children’s Interpretation of wh/every Interaction in Japanese
Kyoko Yamakoshi (425-436)