The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA) was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign September 8-10. The program included talks and posters by:
- Fourth year student Athulya Aravind and faculty Martin Hackl: Variation in the acquisition of presupposition triggers (poster)
- Jason Borga (UConn) and William Snyder (PhD ‘95, BCS): On passives in English, and causatives in French
- Emma Nguyen (UConn) and William Snyder: The (non)-effect of pragmatics on children’s passives
- Ava Irani (UPenn) and Charles Yang (PhD ‘00, CS): Control, raising, and the problem of generalization