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| From right to left: Erin Hall, Ana Pérez-Leroux, Ailis Cournane |
The Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) conference, held at NYU, took place June 8-10. DiGS 23 had a special workshop on "Child learners in syntactic change: Theory and methods"!
This workshop hosted presentations and discussions on topics combining
theoretical syntax, child language acquisition, variationist
sociolinguistics and computational modelling of language change.
Erin Hall (PhD Alum 2020, now assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino) and Ana Pérez-Leroux (Faculty) presented their work entitled "Children take steps toward cyclic and non-cyclic diachronic changes".
The pair examine the role of child language acquisition in systematic,
cyclic processes of grammaticalization, and non-cyclic changes in
progress. They propose that there are 2 different processes involved in
child language acquisition.
Not only did this workshop allow for Hall and Pérez-Leroux to share their amazing work, but they also got to reunite with Ailis Cournane! Cournane is a PhD alum, class of 2015, and is now an assistant professor at NYU!
Overall, UofT faculty and alum had a successful time at DiGS 23!
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