CROSS-LINGUISTIC EARLY SYNTAX STUDY



PAPER TO DOWNLOAD

Lillo-Martin, Diane, and William Snyder (2002) Cross-linguistic study of early syntax. [pdf file]

PUBLICATIONS

Beck, Sigrid, and William Snyder (2001a) Complex predicates and goal PP's: Evidence for a semantic parameter. In Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Dominguez, and Aimee Johansen (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Beck, Sigrid, and William Snyder (2001b) The resultative parameter and restitutive again. In Caroline Fery and Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.) Audiatur Vox Sapientiae: A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Chen, Deborah (2001) Evidence for early word order acquisition in a variable word order language. In Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Dominguez, and Aimee Johansen (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Crain, Stephen and Diane Lillo-Martin (1999) Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hiramatsu, Kazuko (2000) Accessing Linguistic Competence: Evidence from Children's and Adults' Acceptability Judgements. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs. [Advisors: Lillo-Martin and Snyder]

Hiramatsu, Kazuko, William Snyder, Thomas Roeper, Stephanie Storrs, and Matthew Saccoman (2000) Of musical hand chairs and linguistic swing. In Proceedings of the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Isobe, Miwa and Koji Sugisaki (2001) Acquisition of resultatives in Japanese and the theory of Compounding Parameter. In Y. Otsu and Y. Furukawa (eds.) Proceedings of TCP 2000. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

LaPorte-Grimes, Laurel (2001) The Syntax and Acquisition of Verbal Inflection. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs. [Advisor: Lillo-Martin]

Lillo-Martin, Diane (1999) Modality effects and modularity in language acquisition: The acquisition of American Sign Language. In T. Bhatia and W. Ritchie (eds.) Handbook of Language Acquisition, 531-567. San Diego: Academic Press.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2000) Aspects of the syntax and acquisition of wh-questions in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey and H. Lane (eds.) The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (in press) Review of 'The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure', by C. Neidle, J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and R. Lee. Syntax.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (in press) Review of 'The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure', by C. Neidle, J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and R. Lee. Times Higher Education Book Reviews.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (in press) Sign language. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (in press) Modality and modularity: Where are the effects? In Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Society Meeting on "The Effects of Modality on Language and Linguistic Theory."

Mathur, Gaurav (2000) The Morphology-Phonology Interface in Signed Languages. Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Matsuoka, Kazumi (1998) The Acquisition of Japanese Case Particles and the Theory of Case Checking. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Matsuoka, Kazumi (1999) Nominative objects and lack of multiple feature-checking in child Japanese. In E. van Gelderen and V. Samiian (eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 98), Volume 10. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno

Matsuoka, Kaumi (2001) The acquisition of the Japanese particle _ni_. In Mineharu Nakayama (ed.) Issues in East Asian Language Acquisition. Tokyo: Kuroshio Shuppan.

Miyoshi, Nobuhiro (1999) Compounds and complex predicates: Japanese evidence for a "global" parameter. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield, and C. Tano (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2, 453-461. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Roeper, Thomas and William Snyder (in press) Language Learnability and the Forms of Recursion. In Proceedings of the Venice Conference on Language, Brain, and Computation.

Roeper, Thomas, William Snyder, and Kazuko Hiramatsu (2002) Language acquisition in a minimalist framework: Root compounds, merger, and the syntax-morphology interface. In I. Lasser (ed.) The Process of Language Acquisition. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag.

Sandler, Wendy and Diane Lillo-Martin (2001) Natural sign languages. In M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds.) The Handbook of Linguistics, 533-562. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Snyder, William (2001) On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. Language 77:324-342.

Snyder, W. (2002) "Parameters: The View from Child Language." In Y.Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.

Snyder, William, Deborah Chen, Maki Yamane, Laura Conway, and Kazuko Hiramatsu (1999) On the nature of children's left-branch violations. In B. Hollebrandse (ed.) Proceedings of the Workshop on New Perspectives on Language Acquisition. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Snyder, William, Ann Senghas, and Kelly Inman (2001) Agreement morphology and the acquisition of noun-drop in Spanish. Language Acquisition 9:157-173.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2000) Resultatives result from the Compounding Parameter: On the acquisitional correlation between resultatives and N-N compounds in Japanese. In Proceedings of WCCFL 19. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2001) What can child Japanese tell us about the syntax of scrambling? In K. Megerdoomian and L.A. Bar-el (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 20, 538-551. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2001) Some asymmetries in child Japanese and their theoretical implications. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2001) Preposition stranding and the double-accusative construction in the acquisition of English. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2002a) Preposition stranding and the Compounding Parameter: A developmental perspective. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, and A.H.-J. Do (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2002b) The acquisition of preposition stranding and the compounding parameter. English Linguistics 19:291-307.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2003) Do parameters have default values? Evidence from the acquisition of English and Spanish. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.

Sugisaki, Koji, William Snyder, and Daniel Yaffee (2001) Preposition stranding and prepositional complementizers in the acquisition of English. In Y. Otsu and Y. Furukawa (eds.) Proceedings of the First Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.

Yamane, Maki, Deborah Chen Pichler, and William Snyder (1999) Subject-object asymmetries and children's left-branch violations. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield, and C. Tano (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

PRESENTATIONS

Berk, Stephanie and Diane Lillo-Martin (2000) Effects of delayed ASL input on children's narratives. Poster presented at the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Amsterdam, July 2000.

Chen, Deborah (1998) Contributions of early ASL to a cross-linguistic understanding of word order acquisition. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, November 1998.

Chen, Deborah (1999) Acquisition of word order in ASL. Paper presented at the Vth Latin-American Congress on Bilingual Education for the Deaf, Porto Allegre, Brazil, April 1999.

Chen, Deborah (2000) Sandwiches and spoons: A Unified account for SOV and SVOV constructions in American Sign Language. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2000.

Chen, Deborah (2000) Evidence for early word order acquisition in a variable word order language. Paper presented at the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2000.

Chen, Deborah (2001) Word order in early ASL. Invited talk, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 2001.

Chen, Deborah (2001) Word order in early ASL. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 2001.

Chen, Deborah (2001) Phonology in the absence of sound: The case of American Sign Language. Invited talk, Department of Foreign Languages, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, March 2001.

Chen, Deborah (2001) The acquisition of topics in American Sign Language. Paper presented at the Sign Linguistics and Psycholinguistics in the Northeast Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, April 2001.

Chen, Deborah (2001) The acquisition of topics in American Sign Language. Paper to be presented at the Symposium on Deaf Language and Culture, Zagreb, Croatia.

Chen, Deborah and Kazuko Hiramatsu (1999) On the status of complex predicates in child Japanese and ASL. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Language Acquisition, December 1999.

Chen, Deborah and Diane Lillo-Martin (1999) Compounds and complex predicates in American Sign Language. Paper presented to the Psychology and Linguistics Seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1999.

Isobe, Miwa and Koji Sugisaki (2000) Acquisition of resultatives in Japanese and the theory of the Compounding Parameter. Paper presented at the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Tokyo, March 2000.

LaPorte-Grimes, Laurel (1997) English Root Infinitives as causatives. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Child Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1997.

LaPorte-Grimes, Laurel (1998) Causativity and Finiteness in Early Child English. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, January 1998.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (1999) Syntactic aspects of intonation. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, January 1999.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2000) Modality and modularity: Where are the effects? Invited keynote presentation, Texas Linguistic Society meeting on "The Effects of Modality on Language and Linguistic Theory," Austin, Texas, February 2000.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2000) Modality and linguistics: On the structure and acquisition of sign languages. Mini-course, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2000.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2000) Modularity and modality: Some puzzles from sign language. Invited colloquium, Nanzan University, Japan, September 2000.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2001) Modality and Modularity: Where are the effects? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California, February 2001.

Lillo-Martin, Diane (2001) Is there such a thing as verb agreement in ASL? Paper presented at the Sign Linguistics and Psycholinguistics in the Northeast Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, April 2001.

Lillo-Martin, Diane, Ronice Quadros, and Deborah Chen (2000) Different verb categories project different structures in American Sign Language and Brazilian Sign Language. Invited colloquium, University of Delaware, April 2000.

Lillo-Martin, Diane, Ronice Quadros, and Gaurav Mathur (1998) Acquisition of verb agreement in ASL and LIBRAS: A cross-linguistic study. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Child Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1998. Also presented as a poster at the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, November 1998.

Matsuoka, Kazumi (1997) Inflectional morphology in early child Japanese. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Child Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1997.

Matsuoka, Kazumi (1998) Acquisition of the Japanese Particle ni. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Child Language Acquisition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 1998.

Miyoshi, Nobuhiro (1998) Complex predicates and compounds: Japanese evidence for a global parameter. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Child Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1998. Also presented at the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 1998.

Quadros, Ronice, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen (2000) A little change goes a long way: Capturing structural differences between Brazilian Sign Language and American Sign Language. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Amsterdam, July 2000.

Reglero, Lara and Emma Ticio (2001) The emergence of pronominal objects and AgrO in child Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, May 2001.

Snyder, William, Sarah Felber, Bosook Kang, and Diane and Lillo-Martin (2001) Path phrases and compounds in the acquisition of English. Paper presented at the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 2001.

Snyder, William and Diane Lillo-Martin (2001) On the acquisition of Spanish goal PP's. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2001.

Snyder, William, Koji Sugisaki, and Daniel Yaffee (2000) Preposition stranding and prepositional complementizers in the acquisition of English. Paper presented at the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Japan, March 2000.

Sugisaki, Koji (1999) LF wh-movement in child Japanese. Poster presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, University of Potsdam, September 1999.

Sugisaki, Koji (1999) Acquisition of resultatives in Japanese and the theory of Compounding Parameter. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass Workshop on Language Acquisition, December 1999.

Sugisaki, Koji (2000) What can child Japanese tell us about the syntax of scrambling? Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Acquisition Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, December 2000.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2000) Resultatives result from the Compounding Parameter: On the acquisitional correlation between resultatives and N-N compounds in Japanese. Paper presented at the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California - Los Angeles, February 2000.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2001) What can child Japanese tell us about the syntax of scrambling? Paper presented at the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 2001.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2001) Some asymmetries in child Japanese and their theoretical implications. Paper presented at the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Japan, March 2001.

Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2001) Quantification without qualification without plausible dissent. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA), Northampton, MA, April 2001.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2000) An acquisitional investigation of the Prepositional Case Parameter. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, December 2000.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2001a) Double objects and preposition stranding in the acquisition of English. Paper presented at the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Japan, March 2001.

Sugisaki, Koji and William Snyder (2001b) Preposition stranding and the Compounding Parameter: A developmental perspective. Paper presented at the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 2001.

Ticio, Emma (2001) Moving towards the Non-null Subject Parameter: The acquisition of subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish. Paper presented at the UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2001.

Ticio, Emma and Lara Reglero (2001) The acquisition of clitics in Child Spanish. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2001.





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