Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification
We are pleased to announce a workshop on the acquisition of quantification, to be held at UMass Amherst, Oct. 4-5 2013.
Invited Speakers:
Martin Hackl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Julien Musolino (Rutgers University)
William Philip (University of Utrecht)
The past two decades have seen detailed and wide-ranging investigations of quantification in child language. This work includes a substantial literature exploring the classic “quantifier-spreading” phenomenon (Roeper and DeVilliers 1993, Philip 1995, Crain et al. 1996, Drozd 2001, Drozd and Van Loosbroek 2006, Geurts 2003, Smits 2009), as well as studies of quantifier scope and quantifier raising (Lidz and Musolino 2002, Musolino and Lidz 2005, Syrett and Lidz 2010), and distributivity and collectivity in universal quantification (Brooks and Braine 1996, Brooks and Sekerina 2006).
Independently, quantification has played a central role in developmental research on scalar implicature and the semantic-pragmatics interface (Noveck 2001, Papafragou and Musolino 2003, Huang and Snedeker 2009b). At the same time, important recent work has pursued the connection between quantification and early numerical cognition (Barner et al. 2009, Sullivan and Barner 2011, Brooks et al. 2011). Finally, a number of researchers have investigated aspects of quantification in L2 learners (DelliCarpini 2003, O’Grady 2006, Ionin et al. 2012).
This workshop aims to foster discussion and collaboration by bringing together researchers working on the acquisition of quantification from a variety perspectives and frameworks.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and poster presentations on all aspects of quantification in first and second language acquisition and language disorders.
Abstracts should be submitted on the website at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Quantification
Deadline for submission: July 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2013
Format:
Length: 500 words (plus 1 extra page for examples, figures, trees, references, etc.); font-size 12 pts., Times New Roman; margins: 1” The abstract should include a title but no names or affiliation.
Please include the word count at the bottom of the abstract. Submission limit: no more than 2 submissions per person, only one as primary author.
Organizers: Jeremy Hartman, Magda Oiry, Tom Roeper