SATURDAY  MORNING (Murray Hall)

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-10:00

9. Syntax	10. Parasession on bilingualism and acquisition (Phonology)	11. Semantics/ Syntax
The classification of Spanish prepositions: Evidence from Media Lengua Suzanne Dikker (New York University)	Asymmetric phonetic convergence in bilingual speech Barbara E. Bullock, Amanda Dalola, Verónica González, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Pennsylvania State University)	Attributive superlatives in Romanian Alexandra Teodorescu (University of Texas, Austin)
Aspect and the internal structure of Romance PLACE PPs Christina Tortora (College of Staten Island)	The Acquisition of Spanish Onsets Rafael Núñez-Cedeño (University of Illinois, Chicago)	The double negation puzzle in a strict negative concord language Anamaria Falaus (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes)

10:00-10:15

Coffee

10:15-11:15

12. Syntax	13. Phonology	14. Syntax
Compositional Telicity in the Prepositional System Heather Burnett*, Katrina Petrik** and Mireille Tremblay* (*Queen’s University, **U. of Ottawa)	Perceptual Properties of Palatalization in Romanian Laura Spinu (University of Delaware)	Sub-extraction from subjects Ángel J. Gallego (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona) and Juan Uriagereka (Univ. of Maryland and U. del País Vasco)
On the use of the definite article with prepositions in Romanian Alexandru Mardale (LLF, Paris 7 & U. of Bucharest)	Voicing assimilation in Ecuadoran Spanish: evidence for stratal OT Sonia Colina (Arizona State University)	A-movement, dislocated subjects and the syntax of the left periphery in Spanish Omar Beas (University of Southern California)

11:15-12:15

Lexical conservatism and the encoding of declension class membership

Donca Steriade (M.I.T)

12:15-1:45

Lunch

SATURDAY AFTERNOON (Murray Hall)

1:45-2:45

15. Syntax	16.  Parasession on bilingualism and acquisition (Syntax)	17. Phonology
Unaccausative Manner-of-Motion Verbs in Italian: A Compositional Analysis María Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California)	Evidence for the continuum from narrow to peripheral syntax among bilinguals and monolinguals Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Pennsylvania State University)	Phonetic correlates of stress and accent in Catalan and Castilian Spanish Pilar Prieto (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & ICREA) and Marta Ortega-Llebaria (University of Texas, Austin)
Past Participle Agreement in Abruzzese: Split Auxiliary Selection and the Null-subject Parameter Roberta D’Alessandro and Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)	Verb movement – patterns of acquisition and triggering experience in EP and BP Fernanda Maria Ribeiro Gonçalves (Universidade de Evora)	On Majorcan Catalan pre-nuclear pitch accents Miquel Simonet (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

2:45-3:15

Coffee

3:15-4:15

18.  Syntax	19. Parasession on bilingualism and acquisition (Syntax)	20. Phonology
Agree and Existential Constructions in Romance Erik Schoorlemmer (LUCL, Leiden University)	Incomplete acquisition of prepositional relative clauses in Spanish-English early bilinguals Silvia Perpiñán (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Why neither Sympathy Theory nor Comparative Markedness are able to handle prosodic opacity: the case of Latin vowel deletion Haike Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Verb Movement and Phase-Sliding Ángel J. Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)	Topicalizations and object drop in child language Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge (University of Toronto)	What consonant vocalization tells us about the syllabic affiliation of muta-cum-liquida clusters in Proto-Spanish and Western Romance Fernando Martínez-Gil (Ohio State University)

4:15-4:45

Break

5:00-6:00

Deviance and convergence in early child bilingualism

Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam)

7:00-9:00

Dinner