text_combined: chicago phonetics phonology chiphon 98 call chiphon phonetics phonology group university chicago provides forum discussing fundamental questions spoken language research last year 100 people joined us daylong panel whether speech special year part 34th annual meeting chicago linguistic society examine language acquisition data incorporated phonological phonetic theory chiphon 98 saturday april 18 chicago illinois acquisition spoken language ideal relationship central developmental portions field would one investigators would construct model children capable developing adults conversely model adults could developed children menn 1980 provides better measure speaker successful acquisition speech perceiving contrasts producing perception production related linguistic competence acquisition data used formulating evaluating phononological theories tone stress prosodic primitives innate bootstrapped signal speech processing mechanisms responsible secondlanguage development adults processing l1 infants acquiring disordered phonology tell us mechanisms invite abstracts treat acquisition spoken language integral development linguistic theory invited speakers james flege university alabama birmingham peter jusczyk johns hopkins university robert port indiana university conference info like last year year symposium provide ample opportunities discussion talks throughout day box lunch hourlong discussion end events weekend include panel language acquisition lexicon april 19 sophisticated connectionist models language acquisition provide ideal framework constructing linguistic theories incorporate complex interactions sounds symbols meanings ways conceptualize organization morphology different implications first second language acquisition ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny mature organisms look lexical access convinced cognition recapitulates ontogeny invited speakers joan bybee university new mexico david pisoni indiana university terry regier university chicago cls conference also host panel status constraints linguistic theory april 17 john mccarthy jerrold sadock papers phonology morphology syntax among others presented main sessions april 1719 diana archangeli david dowty send 500word abstract via email rmhemphi midway uchicago edu january 31 1998 information http humanities uchicago edu humanities cls http gsbdrl uchicago edu cls