- Charles Yang (moderator)
- John Trueswell: Parsing to learn: How the demands of real-time language comprehension shape word and grammar learning [abstract]
- Jeffrey Lidz: Input and Intake in Language Acquisition [abstract]
- Silvina Montrul: The Power of the Grammar in Between [abstract]
- Ailis Cournane: Child generalization, Language innovation [abstract]
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PLC 40 (March 18-20, 2016)
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PLC 39 (March 20-22, 2015)
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PLC 38 (March 28-30, 2014)
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PLC 37 (March 22-24, 2013)
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PLC 36 (March 23-25, 2012)
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PLC 35 (March 18-20, 2011)
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PLC 34 (March 19-21, 2010)
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PLC 33 (March 27-29, 2009)
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PLC 32 (February 22-24, 2008)
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PLC 31 (February 23-25, 2007)
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Penn Linguistics Conference
The 41st Annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place March 24-26, 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, PA.
PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
This Conference is made possible by generous funding from:
Keynote Speaker: Ashwini Deo
Keynote title: Marathi tense marking: a window into the lexical encoding of tense meanings [abstract]
Special Panel: Current Issues in Language Acquisition
As Lila Gleitman once insightfully remarked, a picture is worth a thousand words, and that's the problem. How do language learners, children and adults alike, navigate through the overwhelming uncertainties in their linguistic experience to converge on the target grammar--or do they sometimes fail?
In recent years, partly fueled by the Big Data revolution, it has become popularly held that language can emerge via powerful computational processes sifting through a large amount of linguistic data. Nevertheless, the very existence of signal amidst noise does not mean that language learners have plausible means to detect it. This panel invites language acquisition experts to address what kind of cognitive resources are available to learners, how they actually exploit distributional regularities, and the outcome of learning when the input data is limited or perturbed, as in the case of second language learning, heritage language, and language change.
The panel speakers and the titles of their talks are:
This panel will take place in the afternoon on Friday, March 24, 2017.
Conference Schedule
Here is the PLC 41 schedule of events. The schedule is subject to change.
Friday Reception
Please note that a state-issued ID or passport is required in order to consume alcohol at the panel reception Friday evening. University policy requires us to have security checking IDs and issuing wristbands to those over 21 at the door.
Previous Conferences
Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.