Schedule of Presentations

8:40	Introduction, William G. Sakas
	Morphology, Speech Segmentation
9:10	On Statistical Parameter Setting, Damir Cavar, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues and Giancarlo Schrementi
9:35	Combining Utterance-Boundary and Predictability Approaches to Speech Segmentation, Aris Xanthos
10:00	Short Break
	Phonology
10:10	Invited Talk: On the Acquisition of Phonological Representations, B. Elan Dresher
10:50	Coffee Break
	Child Production
11:20	A Computational Model of Emergent Simple Syntax: Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-Word Stage to the Two-Word Stage, Kris Jack, Chris Reed and Annalu Waller
11:45	Modelling Syntactic Development in a Cross-Linguistic Context, Fernand Gobet, Daniel Freudenthal and Julian M. Pine
	Connectionist
12:10	On a Possible Role for Pronouns in the Acquisition of Verbs, Aarre Laakso and Linda Smith
12:35	Modelling Atypical Syntax Processing, Michael S. C. Thomas and Martin Redington
13:00	Lunch
	Constructionist
14:00	Putting Meaning into Grammar Learning, Nancy Chang
14:25	Some Tests of an Unsupervised Model of Language Acquisition, Bo Pedersen, Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn and Eytan Ruppin
	Principles and Parameters
14:50	A Quantitative Evaluation of Naturalistic Models of Language Acquisition; the Efficiency of the Triggering Learning Algorithm Compared to a Categorial Grammar Learner, Paula Buttery
15:15	Grammatical Inference and First Language Acquisition, Alexander Clark
15:40	Coffee Break
	Learning Biases
16:10	Invited Panel: Learning Biases in Language Acquisition, Walter Daelemans, Jerome Feldman and Charles D. Yang
17:40	Closing remarks and discussion
Reserve paper: A Developmental Model of Syntax Acquisition in the Construction Grammar Framework with Cross-Linguistic Validation in English and Japanese, Peter Ford Dominey and Toshio Inui