Space In Language
Location, Motion, Path, and Manner
Editor: Eve V. Clark
2002 CSLI
Publications
Editor's Note
With this meeting, the Stanford Child Language Forum moved to a
new format. Future meetings
(on a two-year schedule rather than the previous annual basis) will
focus on a specific topic
in first language acquisition. Because the answers to many questions
in acquisition depend on
the language being acquired, we draw on cross-linguistic data
whenever possible. The topic for
this meeting was 'Space in Language'--how children go about learning
to talk about position and
motion, self-induced motion and caused motion; how they learn to
convey motion, path, and manner,
as well as the details of static position or location in space. The
program drew on a large
number of languages whose acquisition is being studied by researchers
from many countries.
Languages represented at the meeting included Arrernte, Danish,
English, French, German, Hebrew,
Hindi, Japanese, Marquesan, Portuguese, Spanish, Tzeltal, and
Zapotec. We owe special thanks to
Dan I. Slobin (UC Berkeley) and his fellow-participants, Melissa
Bowerman, Penelope Brown,
Sonja Eisenbeiss, and Bhuvana Narasimhan, for planning the Friday
evening Symposium.
The 2002 CLRF Organizing Committee--John Beavers, Michelle M.
Chouinard, Ashwini Deo, Joy C. Geren,
Vikram Jaswal, Barbara F. Kelly, Jean-Philippe Marcotte, Elizabeth
A. Micks, Daniela O'Neill,
Deena Skolnick, Rebecca Williamson, and Andrew Wong--did the general
planning, publicity, and
selection of the abstracts for presentations at the meeting. Ashwini
Deo and Barbara Kelly produced
the meeting handbook; John Beavers, Jean-Philippe Marcotte, Rebecca
Williamson, and Andrew Wong
organized the food and refreshments for the coffee breaks and the
Friday evening reception;
Michelle Chouinard and Joy Geren organized registration, and Vikram
Jaswal and Deena Skolnick
planned and set up the book display. The Organizing Committee is also
indebted to the chairs of
the paper sessions, those staffing the registration table and the
book display, those helping
with the refreshments, and everyone else who lent a hand to bring
about the 2002 Forum on
'Space in Language'. This meeting is made possible by the invaluable
support of the staff in
Linguistics: Natalie Mendoza, Socorro (Coco) Relova and Allen
Sciutto; and at CSLI: Michele King
and Najwa Salame. We also thank Byron Reeves, Keith Devlin, and the
Cognitive Science Committee
at CSLI for their financial support of this meeting.
-- Eve V. Clark
Hard copy: All the papers submitted to the CLRF-2002 Proceedings
are available in pdf format, to be viewed and printed with Adobe
Acrobat
Created: January 2003
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