chicago phonetic phonology chus call chus phonetic phonology group university chicago provide forum discuss fundamental question speak language research over join us daylong panel whether speech special part th annual meet chicago linguistic society examine language acquisition datum incorporate phonological phonetic theory chus saturday april chicago illinoi acquisition spoken language ideal relationship between central developmental portion field one investigator each construct model child capable develop adult conversely model adult develop child menn provide better measure speaker s successful acquisition speech perceive contrast produce perception production relate linguistic competence acquisition datum formulate evaluate phononological theory tone stress prosodic primitives innate bootstrap signal speech process mechanism responsible secondlanguage development are same those adult process l infant acquire disordered phonology tell us mechanism invite abstract treat acquisition speak language integral development linguistic theory invite speaker jame flege university alabama birmingham peter jusczyk john hopkin university robert port indiana university conference info s symposium provide ample opportunity discussion talk throughout day box lunch hourlong discussion end events weekend include panel language acquisition lexicon april sophisticate connectionist models language acquisition provide ideal framework construct linguistic theory incorporate complex interaction between sound symbol meaning conceptualize organization morphology different implication first second language acquisition ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny mature organism lexical access convince cognition recapitulate ontogeny invite speaker joan bybee university mexico david pisonus indiana university terry regier university chicago cls conference host panel status constraint linguistic theory april john mccarthy jerrold sadock paper phonology morphology syntax among present during main session april diana archangelus david dowty send word abstract via email rmhemphus midway uchicago edu january further information http humanities uchicago edu humanities cl http gsbdrl uchicago edu cl 