MayFest 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006 - Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration & breakfast Location: 0108 Marie Mount Hall (nextdoor to Maryland room) |
| 9:30 - 9:35 | Welcome |
| 9:35 - 10:35 | Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) The Acquisition of Phonological Representations |
| 10:40 - 11:40 | William Sakas (CUNY/Hunter College) The Subset Principle: Consequences and Conspiracies |
| 11:40 - 1:30 | Lunch at local restaurants Where to eat |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania) Distributional learning and phonetic development |
| 2:35 - 3:35 | Toben Mintz (University of Southern California) Bootstrapping Grammatical Categories from Structure-Independent Distributional Cues |
| 3:35 - 4:05 | Coffee & cookies |
| 4:05 - 5:05 | Mark Johnson (Brown University) Bayesian learning of grammars |
| 7:00pm | MayFest 2006 Reception |
Saturday, May 13, 2006 - Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast Location: 0108 Marie Mount Hall (nextdoor to Maryland room) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Charles Yang (Yale University) Language and Learning |
| 10:05 - 11:05 | Jessica Maye (Northwestern University) Learning to Hear a Language: A statistical account of developmental speech perception |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Summarizing Remarks I Bill Idsardi (University of Maryland) |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Discussion facilitated by discussant |
| 12:10 - 2:00 | Lunch at local restaurants Where to eat |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Carla Hudson Kam (University of California at Berkeley) Rapid Language Change as a Window on Language Learning Mechanisms |
| 3:05 - 3:35 | Summarizing Remarks II Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland) |
| 3:35 - 4:05 | Discussion facilitated by discussant |