[CLG logo] Formal Approaches to Language Acquisition
University of Haifa, Israel, 7 October, 2007


Program (tentative)

9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00-10:10 Opening
10:10-11:00 Keynote speaker: Ewa Dąbrowska, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, UK
From formula to schema: Syntactic development in a usage-based framework
11:00-11:30 Yonata Levy, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University
Longitudinal study of the course of language development in children with Williams syndrome
11:30-12:00 Esther Dromi, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
A Dynamic System Approach in the Assessment of Communication and Early Language
12:00-12:30 Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
High-accuracy Annotation and Parsing of CHILDES Transcripts
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Osnat Segal, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Liat Kishon-Rabin and Dorit Ravid, School of Education, Department of Communication Disorders and Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
Prosodic Patterns in Hebrew Child Directed Speech
14:00-14:30 Ruth Berman, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
Between Lexicon and Syntax in the Development of Hebrew Binomial Constructions
14:30-15:00 Naama Friedman, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
The acquisition of various types of movement in Hebrew
15:00-15:30 Dorit Ravid, School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders, Tel Aviv University
Acquiring noun plurals in Hebrew: A multifaceted view
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:30 Galit Benzvi and Ronit Levie, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
Morphological and lexical knowledge across the school years: A study of typical and atypical populations
16:30-17:00 Anat Hora, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
The Child as Psycho-linguist: Linguistic Theories, Naive Theories and Linguistic Literacy
17:00-17:30 Zohar Eviatar, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
Reading with two hemispheres: neuropsychological and computational models
17:30-18:00 David Share, Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa
The Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: The price of over-reliance on an outlier orthography


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