2010年2月2日

TCP 2010 Program

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Day 1 (March 12, 2010)
10:30-10:35
Opening Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:35-11:05
"Fragments in Child English and Spanish"
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University) and William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

11:05-11:35
"SVO Universally? Experimental Evidence for Underlying Word Order and Its Consequences for Language Acquisition"
Alan Langus (SISSA) and Marina Nespor (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Chair: Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

Lunch

13:00-13:30
"Linguistic Co-Evolution and the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument"
Luke McCrohon (University of Tokyo)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

13:30-14:00
"Neural Correlates of the Phonological Complexity Scale in Korean Diphthongs"
Haeil Park (Yonsei University) and Sang-Cheol Ahn (Kyung Hee University)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:00:14:30
"SLI Children’s Weakness in Morphosyntax and Pragmatics"
Maria Teresa Guasti, Fabrizio Arosio, Chiara Branchini and Matteo Forgiarini (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Chair: Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

Break

14:50-15:20
"Contextually Restricted Scales of i-Adjectives in Japanese"
Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai University/University of Connecticut)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

15:20-15:50
"On the Typology of Wh-Conditionals in Chinese"
Stephen Crain and Qiong-peng Luo (Macquarie University)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

15:50-16:20
"The BEI Construction, Movement Chains and the Copy Theory"
Pei-Jung Kuo (National Chiayi University)
Chair: Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University)

Break

16:35-17:35 (Invited Lecture)
"Spelling Out the Double-O Constraint"
Ken Hiraiwa (Meiji Gakuin University)
Chair: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

RECEPTION

Day 2 (March 13, 2010)
10:00-10:30
"Reflexives in Inter-Language Grammar and Acquisition through Feature Transfer"
Nao Ishino and Hiroyuki Ura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

10:30-11:00
"English/Turkish Interlanguage Prosody: Implications for UG, Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access"
Öner Özçelik (McGill University)
Chair: Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts)

11:00-11:30
"The Acquisition of Phonemic Liquids in L2 English by Self-Correcting Japanese Speakers"
Moti Lieberman (McGill University)
Chair: Yukiko Sugiyama (Keio University)

Lunch

12:30-14:00 Poster Session
"Developmental Dyslexia: ERP Correlates of Anomalous Morphosyntactic Processing"
Chiara Cantiani ( University of Milano-Bicocca/Scientific Institute “E.Medea”), Maria Luisa Lorusso, Paolo Perego (Scientific Institute “E.Medea”) and Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)


"Dichotic Perception of Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages in Native Speakers of Mandarin and English"
Fang-Chia Hsu, Sandra P. Whiteside and Patricia E. Cowell (University of Sheffield)

"Processing Constraints on PF Movement"
Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro and Michelle Liou (National Taiwan Normal University)

"The Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Topic in Japanese"
Yasuhiro Sasahira (Osaka University of Tourism)

"The Acquisition of the Go-Verb Construction in English"
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

14:00-14:30
"A Comparative Study of the Acquisition of Plural Morphemes in Japanese and Korean"
Nao Nakano, Hye Sun Park and Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)


14:30-15:00
"The Acquisition of Morpho-Phonological Alternations: A Case Study with German-Speaking Children"
Anne Gwinner (Universität Konstanz)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

15:00-15:30
"Are Chinese Children’s Passives Delayed?"
Ting Xu (University of Connecticut)
Chair: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University)

Break

15:45-16:45 (Invited Lecture)
"Modularity Revisited"
Susan Curtiss (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)