http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117Events at the Beckman Institute(c) 2009, Beckman Institute and Board of Trustees, University of Illinois60http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=123701&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTThree Beckman Institute graduate students will present 20 minute talks on their research. A pizza lunch is provided.http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=123701&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTWed, 02 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148043&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTResearch on children's comprehension and production of the passive has yielded contradictory results concerning the age at which they acquire the structure. There is evidence from syntactic priming for early abstract syntax, which doesn't fit easily with evidence from other studies showing a delay in children's acquisition of the passive. This talk presents a priming study that manipulated Structure (active vs. passive) and Verb-type (agent-patient vs. theme-experiencer), with 9-year-olds (Experiment 1) and 6-year-olds (Experiment 2). Our results suggest a staged process of acquisition of the passive, in which children may acquire a syntactic representation for the passive before they acquire its semantic characteristics: by six children have acquired the constituent structure of passives and are therefore susceptible to priming of this structure, but they continue to make errors with the semantic role mapping. By nine children have mastered both the syntactic and semantic aspects of this structure.http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148043&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTThu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:00 GMThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148049&ACTION=VIEW_EVENThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148049&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTThu, 03 Dec 2009 20:00:00 GMThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148048&ACTION=VIEW_EVENThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=148048&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTMon, 07 Dec 2009 21:00:00 GMThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=125582&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTAs part of the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar Series Rohit Bhargava will present a one-hour talk "Chemical Imaging and Systems Pathology to Find Lethal Cancers." Lunch is provided.http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=125582&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTWed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMThttp://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=125583&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTAs part of the Beckman Institute Director's Seminar Series Jesse Ribot will present a one-hour talk "Why Did Icarus Fall from the Sky? Climate Change and the Political Economy of Vulnerability." Lunch is provided.http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=117&eventId=125583&ACTION=VIEW_EVENTWed, 27 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT