Program 2017

The full schedule and abstracts for GURT 2017 are available here as a PDF.

8:30 am – 9:00 am	Registration & Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am	Welcome remarks by Elizabeth Zsiga, Deparment Chair
9:15 am – 10:00 am	Plenary: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University)
10:00 am – 11:00 am	Plenary: Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
11:00 am – 11:30 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Plenary: Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Invited Lunch for Plenary Speakers and Junior Scholars
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Concurrent sessions: Syntactic Change, Morphosyntax, L2 Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Phonology
2:00 pm – 4:15 pm	Colloquium: Evaluating Explanations of Variability in Second Language Acquisition: Constructional and Phonological Evidence
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Reception

9:00 am – 9:30 am	Registration & coffee
9:30 am – 10:30 am	Plenary: Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)
10:30 am – 11:30 am	Plenary: Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University)
11:30 am – 1:00 pm	Poster session and coffee
11:30 am – 2:00 pm	NSF Information Table (ICC Galleria)
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Concurrent sessions: Syntax, (Morpho)Syntactic Acquisition, L2 Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, L1 Acquisition
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Champagne Reception

9:00 am – 9:30 am	Registration & coffee
9:30 am – 10:30am	Plenary: Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
10:30 am – 11:30 am	Plenary: Elissa Newport (Georgetown University)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm	Coffee Break
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Plenary: Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Closing Discussion: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University)