18th Annual Graduate Linguistics/TESOL Symposium (2012)

Friday, April 6^th 2012
9:30 A.M. To 3:45 P.M.

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Linguistics Faculty Panel Discussion
Topic: Universal Grammar
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Gila Room in the Memorial Union

This conference includes a lunchtime panel discussion by three Arizona State University linguists who represent the scope of difference and sometimes competing ideas within the discipline. Topics to be discussed are the nature of language as a whole and its connection with so-called Universal Grammar (UG), the history of philosophy that has influenced the assumptions behind UG, and other relevant issues. Faculty members include:

Regents’ Professor Elly van Gelderen
Assistant Professor Carrie Gillon
Professor Karen Adams

Graduate Student Paper Presentations

Gila Room (M.U.)

Syntax and Philosophy (10-11 a.m.)

Historical Linguistics (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

Teaching English as a Second Language (2:15-3:15 p.m.)

Graham Room (M.U.)

Ethics in Language Study and Teaching (10-11 a.m.)

The Navajo Toddler Application for iPhone/iPad (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

Discourse Analysis (2:15-3:45 p.m.)

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