Generative Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics (GACL 4)

— (Bio)linguistic Development: A Collection of CAT Studies —

http://www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes/GACL-4/index.html

Now in its fourth installment, it is fair to say that GACL has become an institution for and with my students (the acronym more so than the somewhat moronous full form), and we continue to try and attract international visitors as well. Luckily, this year we were able to "lap onto" LOT 1, the first international graduate student conference in Linguistics organized by some of our PhD students. Tom McFadden was secured for GACL 4 early on and then became available as an invited speaker at LOT 1 as well, Sonja Eisenbeiss will be visiting the Cyprus Acquisition Team (CAT) for a week as part of the Erasmus exchange agreement between our departments, and Maria Kambanaros, a CAT member, has come to Cyprus at the beginning of this academic year to start the first university program in Speech and Language Therapy.

This event is a student-directed and -integrating workshop. This year's 'theme' is work on language acquisition (with typical development and language impairment) and wider biolinguistic issues carried out by my undergraduate and doctoral students, and several CAT members will be presenting their work here.

Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss will also offer the tutorial/workshop
"Elicitation Games for Language Acquisition Research"
on Monday (just get in touch with me for further details).

GACL 4 is open to attend for anyone interested! We welcome all students and faculty at UCY and beyond, and in particular LOT 1 participants. (Apologies for the late announcement, but there have been some organizational issues.) Attendance is, of course, free of charge. But please send me an email if you plan to come to the dinner — for which, again, everyone is very much invited, yet each pays for their own. :-)

The workshop will take place in room E005 (UCY Kallipoleos Campus).

PROGRAM BELOW CAN ALSO BE DOWNLOADED AS A PDF HERE.