GALANA 6

The sixth North American GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) conference was held at the University of Maryland, College Park, from February 19th to 21st.

Ph.D. student Ailís Cournane presented a poster: "Modal errors as evidence for child-driven diachronic V-to-INFL reanalysis."

Alumna Lyn Tieu (MA 2008, now at l'École Normale Supérieure) was part of a presentation with colleagues Kadir Gökgöz (University of Connecticut), Ksenia Bogomolets (University of Connecticut), Jeffrey Palmer (Gallaudet University) and Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut/Haskins Laboratories): "Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: Cues of prominence."