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Constructional approaches to grammar & first language acquisition...

• Minna Kirjavainen, Anna Theakston (University of Manchester), Elena Lieven & Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): I want hold Postman Pat; An input-driven explanation for children's infinitival-to omission errors.

• Teodora Gliga & Gergely Csibra (Birkbeck, University of London):  One-year-olds appreciate the referential nature of words and communicative gestures.

• Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark): Relations between constructions: An analysis of child-directed speech.

• Heike Behrens (University of Basel): Learning the form and the function of German verb-second.

• Elma Nap-Kolhoff (University of Tilburg): The development of Dutch Object Naming Constructions in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children receiving low amounts of Dutch language input.

• Thea Cameron-Faulkner (Swansea University) & Tina Hickey  (University College Dublin): The role of function in children's early multiword constructions: a cross-linguistic analysis.

• Eve Clark (Stanford University) and Adele Goldberg (Princeton University): Theme session discussion.