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International Workshop on Children's Acquisition and
Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2014)
November 5, 2014
Laboratory for Developmental Studies Harvard University
William James Hall 1550 at 33 Kirkland Street, 02138 Cambridge, MA, USA
Program
8:30-9:00
Registration & Coffee
Session 1: Acquisition of syntax
9:00-9:30
Shenai Hu and Maria Teresa Guasti
Production of relative clauses in Wenzhounese
9:30-10:00
Anna Gavarró, Maya Leela, Luigi Rizzi, and Julie Franck
Setting the OV parameter: an experiment on Hindi-Urdu
10:00-10:30
Mine Nakipoğlu, Melike Hendek, and Begüm Avar
Learning Complementation in Turkish
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Session 2: Interpretation of cues during parsing
11:00-11:30
Akira Omaki, Tessei Kobayashi, and Jeffrey Lidz
Cue reliability in the acquisition of Japanese case markers
11:30-12:00
Susanne Brouwer, Deniz Özkan Göktürk, and Aylin Küntay
Verb-based anticipation during language processing: Turkish and Dutch
12:00-12:30
Yuki Hirose and Reiko Mazuka
Interpretation of the Role-ambiguous Prosodic Cue in Children and Adults
12:30-14:30
Lunch & Poster Session
Session 3: Verb acquisition and parsing models
14:30-15:00
Anurag Rimzhim and Letitia Naigles
Use of Morphosyntactic Markings and Number of NPs in Verb Acquisition in
Hindī
15:00-15:30
Lucia Pozzan and John Trueswell
Limitations of real-time sentence processing shape grammar acquisition:
Comparing verb-initial and verb-final languages
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Session 4: Semantic Interpretation
16:00-16:30
Susan Kalt
Directional suffixes in child Cuzco Quechua
16:30-17:00
Ercenur Ünal and Anna Papafragou
Acquisition of Evidential Morphology in Turkish: A Production-Comprehension
Asymmetry
17:00-17:30
Vasfiye Geçkin, Rosalind Thornton, and Stephen Crain
The interpretation of disjunction and negation in Turkish: A comparison of
children and adults
17:30-18:30 Group Discussion: We will form four small discussion groups under each
session name and groups will finally gather to report main issues discussed.
19:30:
Dinner
2 Posters
Mineko Shirakawa: How Japanese-English bilingual children process morphological case
markings in the head-final language under the influence of the head-initial language
Ayumi Matsuo, Sotaro Kita, and Letitia Naigles: Children’s use of morphosyntax and the
number of arguments to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs
Duygu Özge, Berna Uzundağ, Deniz Özkan, Aylin Küntay, and Jesse Snedeker: Children do use
verbal morphemes for thematic role assignment
Jidong Chen and Yasuhiro Shirai: The acquisition of head-final relative clauses in Mandarin
Chinese
Annette Herkenrath: Listening to head-final subordinated constructions in bilingual and
monolingual Turkish
Masaya Yoshida and Suwon Yoon: Two cases of incremental parsing in Korean: conditionals
and relative clauses
Vasfiye Geçkin, Rosalind Thornton, Michael Iverson and Stephen Crain: Bilingual children’s
interpretation of sentences with before and or
Friederike Voß, Mila Vulchanova, Pia Knoeferle, and Hendril Eshuis: The influence of visual
actions and information structure on ambiguous pronoun processing in German children
Camilla Hellum Foyn, Mila Vulchanova, Friederike Voß, and Rik Eshuis: Ambiguous pronoun
resolution in Norwegian (SVO) and German (SOV): A comparison
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