A workshop on recursion in acquisition was held in Bucharest with a large UMass background (former student–Ana Perez, Visitors: Terue Nakato, Anca Sevcenco) on November 18, 2016:

Invited Speakers: Ana Perez (Toronto), Tom Roeper (UMass)

Other speakers: Terue Nakato (Japane), Anca Sevcenco (Bucharest)

These are all connected to and offshoots of the recursion project at UMass — and Mike Wilson and Rong Yin were acknowledged by Terue Nakato.

Program

Centre for the Study of Language Development and Language Communication

University of Bucharest

4 th Bucharest University Colloquium on Language Acquisition

18 – November 2016

Friday 18 November

Workshop on the Acquisition of Recursion

Casa Universitarilor, Sala de lectur?, 46 Dionisie Lupu Str.

Keynote lecture 1

Chair: TBA

10.00 – 11.00

Constraints and resilience in the child’s path to recursion

Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux – University of Toronto

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee-tea break

Session 1

Chair: TBA

11.30 – 12.00:

Relative clauses in child Japanese

Motoki Nakajima – Nagano Prefectural College, Miwa Isobe – Tokyo University of

the Arts, Reiko Okabe – Nihon University, Akiko Terunuma – Daito Bunka

University, Terue Nakato – Kitasato University, Sakumi Inokuma – Jissen

Women’s University & Shunichiro Inada – Meiji Pharmaceutical University

12.00 – 12.30:

The acquisition of possessive structures in Hungarian

Ágnes Tóth- Research Institute for Linguistics (HAS), Pázmány Péter University,

Budapest

12.30 – 14.00

Lunch

Keynote lecture 2

Chair: TBA

14.00 – 15.00

Cross linguistic perspectives on the acquisition path for recursion: the left- and

right-branching question

Tom Roeper –University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Session 2

Chair: TBA

15.00 – 15.30

Recursive nominal modification in Hindi and its acquisition

Benu Pareek

15.30 – 16.00

Recursion in the locative PP and relative clause domain: the view from Romanian

Anca Sevcenco & Larisa Avram – University of Bucharest