The 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 17), was held September 11-13 in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME). UConn linguistics was well represented at the conference with talks by:
- Elaine Grolla (PhD 2005, now at University of Sao Paolo), Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999, now at ZAS Berlin), Andreea Nicolae, Artemis Alexiadou, and Uli Sauerland. Resumption in matrix wh-questions
- Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Mandarin children interpret declarative but not interrogative disjunction as conjunction
- André Eliatamby and Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language
- William Snyder, Sahil Luthra, Nabin Koirala and Roeland Hancock. Passives, Raising, and the Experiencer Externalization Hypothesis
- Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn, Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University), and Noriaki Yusa. Filler-gap Resolution in Cross-linguistic Wh-questions: L2 English and Lti Japanese
… and posters by:
- Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. A Picture Selection Task for the Acquisition of Japanese Disjunction
- Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Napoleon Katsos and Uli Sauerland. A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production
- Pravaal Yadav. Do children use the same grammar for comprehension and production? A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi