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HUMIT 2001 Call for Papers

HUMIT 2000 Program

August 30, 2000
Harvard – Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium

8:45-8:55 Registration

8:55-9:00 Opening Remarks

Syntax

9:00-9:30 Shoichi Takahashi – Kanda University/MIT
Multiplicity and Feature Absorption

9:30-10:00 Cedric Boeckx – UConn
Gaps and Donkeys

10:00-10:30 Kylie Skewes – Harvard
Small clauses in Russian

10:30-10:45 Break

Psycholinguistics

10:45-11:15 Tania Ionin, Ken Wexler – MIT
Tense in Child L2 Acquisition: Evidence from L1 Russian Learners of English

11:15-11:45 Xavier Alario, Albert Costa, Alfonso Caramazza – Harvard
Lexical access during the production of noun phrases: evidence from the frequency effect.

11:45-12:15 Bradford Z. Mahon, Albert Costa, Alfonso Caramazza – Harvard
Are Phonemes Represented in terms of their Syllabic Position?

12:15-12:45 Adam Szczegielniak, Deborah Grossman, Alfonso Caramazza – Harvard
Phonological errors at the beginning of a word

12:45-2:15 Lunch

Semantics

2:15-2:45 Ji-yong KIM – UMass
Specificity and Structure: How Chinese and Korean Nominals are Interpreted

2:45-3:15 Bridget Copley – MIT
The syntactic locus of futurate meaning

3:15-3:45 Svetlana McCoy – BU
Pronoun Doubling and Quantification in Colloquial Russian

3:45-4:15 Luisa Marti – UConn
Quantificational Subjects in Questions and the A'-nature of SpecAgr_SP in Spanish

4:15-4:30 Break

4:30-5:30 Invited Talk by Prof. James Harris - MIT

5:30-7:00 Dinner Break

7:00 on: Party, Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall

August 31, 2000
MIT – Building E-56 Room 270

Syntax

9:15-9:45 Ken Hiraiwa – MIT
Multiple Agree and the Defective Intervention Constraint in Japanese

9:45-10:15 Kentaro Nakatani – Harvard
Applying lexical rules in syntax: A study of the V-te V construction in Japanese

10:15-10:45 Makoto Kadowaki – UMass
Quotative Constructions in Japanese

10:45 -11:00 Break

Phonology

11:00-11:30 Zhiqiang Li – MIT
Tonal Structure of Yes-No Question Intonation in Chaha

11:30-12:00 Paul De Lacy – UMass
Positional markedness in prominent positions

12:00-12:30 Victoria Lotridge – Harvard
The defective syllable and its impact on nasal vowels

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Syntax

2:00-2:30 Claire Bowern – Harvard
Pitta-Pitta, Transitivity and Tense Marking

2:30- 3:00 Javier Martín-González – Harvard
Some remarks about the nature of N-phrases in Spanish

3:00-3:30 Adolfo Ausin – UConn
A-chains, anaphoric clitics and the derivational-representational debate

3:30-4:15 Break

4:15-5:15 Invited Talk by Prof. Susumu Kuno – Harvard

5:15-5:20 Conclusion

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