Helen E. Stickney

hstickne {at} linguist.umass.edu

Department of Linguistics

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA  01003

(413) 545-0885

Downloadable Papers:

CV (pdf)

DP acquisition and the acquisition of the partitive structure. (2007) In A. Belikova, L. Meroni & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA). Cascadilla Press.

Children’s interpretation of partitive “most.” (2007) Current Issues in First Language Acquisition: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 34.  GLSA.  (older version of this paper available here)

Language Acquisition Lab

The pseudopartitive and its illusory projections.  (2003) Umass Amherst manuscript.

CSAAL

What's Thats? (2002)  McKee, C., McDaniel, D.,  Stickney, H. E., & Fowler, S.;  English Studies  2002, Vol.83, No.1, pp. 53-69.

GLSA

 

NSLP

 

Selected Presentations:

PAST TEACHING:  

2007        (with K. Moulton & T. Roeper) False Belief, False Ascription and the Logic of Comparison. GALA 2007 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition). September 7-9. Barcelona, Spain.

 

LING411_TA

LING 201

2006        DP acquisition and the acquisition of the partitive structure.  GALANA 2006 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquistion North America 2). August 17-19.  McGill University.  Montréal, Québec, Canada.

 

2006        Investigations into children’s acquisition of the partitive structure.  The 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics.  June 19-22.  Aalborg, University.  Aalborg, Denmark.

 

 

2006        Acquisition of DP and the partitive/pseudopartitive contrast. UMass-UConn-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop.  April, 2006.  University of Connecticut.

 

 

2004        The pseudo-partitive, extraposition, and predication within the DP.  Presentation at the ECO5 Syntax Workshop, UMD, March 7, 2004.

 

 

2003        Puzzles in children’s acquisition of “most”.  Presentation at the UMass-UConn-MIT-Brown Semantics Workshop, October 25, 2003.

 

 

2002        (with J. Kegl) A Description of Relative Clauses in Nicaraguan Sign   Language.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the  Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 2002.