Friday, September 7th
Talks and dinner to be held at UConn Alumni Center.
| Time | Presentations | Session chair |
| 8:45-9:30 am | Coffee & Snacks | |
| 9:30 – 9:45 am | Opening remarks | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | David Michaels: History of the program | Jon Gajewski |
| 10:30 – 11:15 am | Jon Gajewski: The present and future of Linguistics at UConn | |
| 11:15-11:30 am | Break | |
| 11:30-12:30 pm | Howard Lasnik: UConn Syntax: Some lasting insights and their interactions | Željko Bošković |
| 12:30 am – 1:45 pm | LUNCH (on your own) | |
| 1:45 – 2:45 pm | Mamoru Saito:On the Nature of Proper Department: Partially Objective Observations on UConn Linguistics | Diane Lillo-Martin |
| 2:45 – 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Stephen Crain: Willoughby’s coffee, women’s basketball, and child language | William Snyder |
| 4:00 – 4:10 pm | Break | |
| 4:10 – 5:10 pm | Lyn Frazier (special alumni talk) Processing ellipsis: the circumstances of repair | Jon Sprouse |
| 6:00 – 9:00 pm | Dinner in Great Hall, Alumni Center |
Saturday, September 8th
Talks to be held in McHugh Hall 101 (Formerly Laurel Hall).
| Place & Time | Presentations | Session chair |
| McHugh Hall Foyer
8:45 – 9:15 am |
Coffee & Snacks | |
| McHugh Hall 101
9:15 – 10:15 am |
Panel: The Structure and Acquisition of Sign Languages, led by C. Goodwin
Speakers: D. Chen Pichler, H. Koulidobrova, K. Matsuoka, D. Simons, and S. Wood |
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| 10:15-10:25 | Break | |
| McHugh Hall Foyer
10:25 am – 12:00 pm |
Posters by Alumni | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | LUNCH (on your own) | |
| McHugh Hall 101
1:00 – 2:00 pm |
Session: Locality of movement and ellipsis
1:00 – 1:30 PM: S. Stjepanović: Extraction of Conjuncts and out of Conjuncts in Serbo-Croatian 1:30 – 2:0 PM: T. Messick: A property of deep and surface anaphora |
Magdalena Kaufmann |
| 2:00-2:10 pm | Break | |
| McHugh Hall Foyer
2:10 – 3:30 pm |
Posters by Current Students | |
| McHugh Hall 101
3:30 – 5:00 PM |
Session: East Asian Languages (Syntax, Acquisition, and Semantics)
3:30-4:00 D. Takahashi: What Can Japanese Tell Us about Syntactic Theory and Vice Versa? 4:00-4:30 K. Murasugi: Acquisition of labeling: Evidence from a comparative study of English and East-Asian child languages 4:30-5:00 I. Hsieh: Embedded equivalence and attitudes |
Stefan Kaufmann |
| 5:00 – 5:15 PM | Break | |
| 5:15-6:15 | Juan Uriagereka (special alumni talk): Structure and Computation - Where do paradigms fit? | Željko Bošković |
| McHugh 101 6:15 | Concluding Remarks |
Alumni Poster Presentations
On some aspects of comparative constructions in Korean
Duk-Ho An '07, Konkuk University
Chinese-type questions in English and Spanish revisited
Adolfo Ausín '01, Michigan State University), Esther Torrego (University of Massachusetts, Boston /Euskera Institute Universidad del País Vasco)
Opaque domains in A-not-A questions
Hsu-Te (Johnny) Cheng '13, Emory University
An ethnophonetic study of Japanese cake seller voices
Donna Erickson ('76, Haskins Laboratories), Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kyoto University) , Chunyue Zhu (Kobe University) , Kerrie Obert (The Ohio State University) , Hayato Daikuhara (Renmin University), Caroline Menezes (University of Toledo)
Acquisition of ASL as a Sign L2
Helen Koulidobrova '12, Central Connecticut State University
Modals and Negation in Japanese Sign Language: Investigating the Right Periphery
Kazumi Matsuoka '98, Keio University
Seem constructions in L2 English by Japanese EFL learners
Mineharu Nakayama ('88, The Ohio State University), Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka), & Atsushi Fujimori (University of Shizuoka)
Labeling and pair-Merge of Heads
Masashi Nomura '05, Chukyo University
Unaccusativity Alternation in Japanese and Chinese
Satoshi Oku '98, Hokkaido University
Argument Ellipsis of Wh-phrases in Japanese
Yuta Sakamoto ('17, Chukyo University), Hiroaki Saito (G, UConn)
Linguistic Humor
M. R. Smith '83
A Way of Examining Voice-Mismatches under Ellipsis in Japanese
Kensuke Takita '09-Visitor, Meikai University
Student Posters
The A/A'-distinction in scrambling revisited
Akihiko Arano and Hiromune Oda
Do children know about partial null-subject languages?
Karina Bertolino
Reinterpreting ne-cliticization as split-topicalization
Pietro Cerrone and Hiromune Oda
Loss of movement and labeling: Grammatical pressure and diachronic change
Marcin Dadan
Sometimes two heads are better than one: Person portmanteaux meet person constraints
Paula Fenger and Adrian Stegovec
Acquisition of ellipsis: Phonology or Syntax?
Yoshiki Fujiwara and Hiroyuki Shimada
A phonological analysis of weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language
Shengyun Gu
Labeling and two types of null operators in English
Ryosuke Hattori
Middle-field syntax and information structure in Brazilian Portuguese
Renato Lacerda
Do you really mean it? Linking lexical semantic profiles and the age of acquisition for the English passive
Emma Nguyen
Syntactic analysis of a nominative noun phrase in Japanese imperatives
Yuya Noguchi
Asymmetries in speech perception
Roberto Petrosino
The silent NUMBER in complex cardinals
Yuta Tatsumi
Effects of processing capacity on scope assignment by Mandarin-acquiring children
Shuyan Wang
50 Years of Linguistics at UConn
Pre-schooler Joanne Thibault, right, listens to a story told by Lulu the puppet operated by Diane Lillo-Martin, professor of linguistics. Lillo-Martin is studying how children acquire language. PHOTO BY PETER MORENUS
Point of Interest
Mamoru Saito will visit the department the week before the event and deliver a series of lectures. The lectures will be in Oak Hall, Room 338. The schedule is as follows: