Registration

09:00-09:15

Welcoming Remarks

Session 1
Chair: Chiu-yu Tseng (Academia Sinica)

09:15-10:15

Keynote Speaker
C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University)
On Macrovariations and Microvariations in Parametric Theory

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

Session 2
Chair: Miao-Ling Hsieh (National Taiwan Normal University)

10:30-11:00

One-Soon Her (National Chengchi University)
Classifiers and Measure Words:
Evidence for a Unified Universal Structure

11:00-11:30

Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Toronto)
Numeral Classifiers and Bare Nominals

11:30-12:00

Sihong Zhang (James Cook University)
Classifiers in Ersu

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Session 3
Chair: Elizabeth Zeitoun (Academia Sinica)

13:30-14:00

Hsin-I Hsieh (University of Hawaii)
Universal Grammar and Regional Grammar:
Constructing a Two-tier Syntax

14:00-14:30

Wei Hu (Nankai University)
Distributed Morphological Analysis of Mandarin Reduplication

14:30-14:50

Coffee Break

Session 4
Chair: Jo-wang Lin (National Chiao Tung University)

14:50-15:20

Wei-Wen Roger Liao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
The Hole of Whole and the Silent AMOUNT

15:20-15:50

Zhong Chen (Cornell University),
Lena Jäger (University of Potsdam) and
John Hale (Cornell University)
Uncertainty Reduction as a Predictor of Reading Difficulty in Chinese Relative Clauses

Session 5
Chair: Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro (National Taiwan Normal University)

16:00-17:00

Keynote Speaker
Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut)
On Word Order, Binding Relations, and Plurality within Chinese NPs

Registration

Session 6
Chair: Hsiao-hung Iris Wu (National Taiwan Normal University)

09:45-10:45

Keynote Speaker
Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Affix Support and the EPP

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 7
Chair: Shu-ing Shyu (National Sun Yat-Sen University)

11:00-11:30

Pei-Jung Kuo (National Chiayi University)
Mandarin Ditransitives and the Applicative Theory

11:30-12:00

Jui-Yi Chung (National Tsing Hua University)
On the vP Periphery and Disposal-Affective Alternations:
A Case Study of Jiong Construction in Hakka

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Session 8
Chair: Raung-fu Chung (Southern Taiwan University)

13:30-14:00

Yen-Hwei Lin (Michigan State University)
Language Universals and the Typology
of Mandarin Mid Vowel Assimilation

14:00-14:30

Jung-Yueh Tu (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Effects of Perceptual Assimilation on L2 Tonal Processing

14:30-14:50

Coffee Break

Session 9
Chair: Miao-Hsia Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)

14:50-15:20

Chinfa Lien (National Tsing Hua University)
明清時期萬曆乾隆年間閩南語指示詞的演變:
從指示+樣式到程度加強副詞

15:20-15:50

Barbara Meisterernst (Humboldt University Berlin)
Is the TAM System a Universal System?
The Interplay of Aspect and Modality in Han Period Chinese

Session 10
Chair: Henry Yungli Chang (Academia Sinica)

16:00-17:00

Keynote Speaker
Yafei Li (University of Wisconsin)
Is UG like Swiss Cheese?

17:30-

Banquet

Registration

Session 11
Chair: Shiao-hui Chan (National Taiwan Normal University)

09:15-10:15

Keynote Speaker
Ovid Tzeng (Academia Sinica)
Establishing Two More Stores in Working Memory to Become a Skilled Chinese Reader

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

Session 12
Chair: Jane S. Tsay (National Chung Cheng University)

10:30-11:00

Rueihlirng Fahn and Ruei-Zhu Lin (National United University)
客語兒童早期習得否定句的研究

11:00-11:30

Xiaolu Yang (Tsinghua University) and
Cheng Yang (Tsinghua University)
Control in Early Production of Mandarin-Speaking Children

11:30-12:00

Peng Zhou (Macquarie University) and
Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Focus and Scope in Child Language

12:00-

Closing Ceremony