BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Concord\, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children - Pr
 of Andrew Radford (Department of Language and Linguistics\, University of 
 Essex)
DTSTART:20061019T160000Z
DTEND:20061019T173000Z
UID:TALK5645@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Christopher Lucas
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the syntax of Gender Concord in mixed utter
 ances where bilingual children switch between a modifier in one language a
 nd a noun in another. Particular attention is paid to how children deal wi
 th potential gender mismatches between modifier and noun\, i.e.\, if one o
 f the languages has grammatical gender but the other does not\, or if one 
 of the languages has a ternary gender system and the other a binary one. D
 ata from English-Italian and French-German bilingual children will be disc
 ussed which show that they accommodate the gender properties of the noun t
 o those of its modifiers in such cases\, in order to ensure convergence.
LOCATION:GR06-7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR