When does CAT meet?

CAT Meetings: Spring 2012

Welcome to a new and still very busy year! Throughout the spring semester, we intend to keep the format of offering CAT Meetings for relatively small groups (research meetings of CAT members), primarily project-related (like for the CySLI Project), and CAT Lectures for a larger audience (CAT member talks, informal presentations, and invited guest lectures). We're also waiting for our new CAT Lair to be completed — as soon that's done, there'll be an inaugural meeting. Stay tuned!

CAT Meetings will be held in the new CAT Lair (Room E103, UCY Old Campus, 75 Kallipoleos, Lykavitos, 1678 Nicosia).

The scheduled slot is Wednesdays from 4pm onwards throughout the spring semester 2012. CAT Meetings serve the purpose of discussing strategies and plans, sit together in smaller research groups to write papers or prepare testing, meeting for brainstorming purposes, and so on.

Date	Presenter	Topic	Notes
February ??	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	Inaugural 2012 CAT Meeting @ New CAT Lair	welcome, overview, planning
March	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.
April	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.
May	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.
May 23	Ágnes Lukács	T.B.A.	biSLI visit (STSM)
May 25–27	International Workshop on the Acquisition of Clitics (organized within the CYCLIA Project)
June	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.

CAT Meetings: Fall 2011

The summer break is upon us but the new scheduling and planning started already. Throughout the fall semester, we intend to keep the format of offering CAT Meetings for relatively small groups (research meetings of CAT members) and CAT Lectures for a larger audience (CAT member talks, informal presentations, and invited guest lectures). For the time being, however, we'll stick the former on a regular basis and announce the latter as they come up; a list of CAT working groups can be found here.

CAT Meetings will be held in the CAT Lair (Room 311, Loucas Court, 48 Kallipoleos, Lykavitos, 1678 Nicosia).

The scheduled slot is Wednesdays from 4pm onwards throughout the fall semester 2011. CAT Meetings serve the purpose of discussing strategies and plans, sit together in smaller research groups to write papers or prepare testing, meeting for brainstorming purposes, and so on.

Date	Presenter	Topic	Notes
September 14	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	Introduction to CAT @ Fall 2011	welcome, overview, planning
September 20 Tuesday 9.30am	Lena Papadopoulou Charley Rowe	WG Clitics (in Limassol) WG Socio (at the Department)	CAT working group meetings
September 21	NO MEETING
September 28	Stella Tsigka	Noun and Verb Homophones in Italian: An MEG Study	research presentation
October 4 Tuesday 9.30	Charley Rowe	WG Socio (at the Department)	CAT working group meeting
October 5	Maria Kambanaros	WG Compounds & WG Repetition (with short presentations by Maria Tenizi & Koula Tantele and Stella Vorka)	CAT working group meetings
October 12	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CAT Meeting
October 18 Tuesday 9.30am	Lena Papadopoulou	WG Clitics	CAT working group meeting
October 19	Maria Kambanaros	WG Lexicon & WG Russian	CAT working group meetings
October 26	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CySLI Project (KICK-OFF)	ΙΠΕ/RPF-project meeting
November 1 Tuesday 9.30	Charley Rowe	WG Socio (at the Department)	CAT working group meeting
November 2	Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Lena Papadopoulou	CySLI Project (TD UPDATE)	ΙΠΕ/RPF-project meeting
November 9	NO MEETING
November 16	NO MEETING
November 23	Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Maria Kambanaros	Malta Warm-Up Meeting	biSLI piloting progress
November 25 Friday 6.30–8pm * Room A011 *	Ianthi Maria Tsimpli	Language with (or Regardless of) Communication? A View from Evolution and Atypical Individuals	CAT Lecture (MA in TAAL)
November 26 Saturday 1–5pm * Room M107 *	Ianthi Maria Tsimpli	The Interpretability Hypothesis in Language Development	CAT Tutorial (MA in TAAL)
November 30	NO MEETING
December 7	Maria Kambanaros, KoulaTantele & Kleanthes K. Grohmann	Post-Malta update and issues	biSLI & CAT WG updates
December14 in Limassol! (Daphne's office)	Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Maria Kambanaros	CySLI Project	CAT working group meeting
December 16 Friday 6.30–8pm	Naama Friedmann	SLI Has Many Faces: Subtypes of SLI	CAT Lecture (MA in TAAL)
December 17 Saturday 1–5pm	Naama Friedmann	The Types of Dyslexia, Directions for Diagnosis and Treatment	CAT Tutorial (MA in TAAL)

CAT Meetings: Spring 2011

As of January 2011, CAT will gather for two types of irregularly regular activities: CAT Meetings for relatively small groups (research meetings of CAT members) and CAT Lectures for a larger audience (CAT member talks, informal presentations, and invited guest lectures).

CAT Meetings will be held in the CAT Lair (Room 311, Loucas Court, 48 Kallipoleos, Lykavitos, 1678 Nicosia).

The scheduled slot is Tuesdays from 4pm onwards throughout the spring semester 2011, though we will not necessarily meet every week with every CAT member present (though everyone is welcome, of course) and/or we can rearrange the day and time on a needs basis. Basically, CAT Meetings serve the purpose of discussing strategies and plans, sit together in smaller research groups to write papers or prepare testing, meeting for brainstorming purposes, and so on.

CAT Lectures will be held in a UCY Lecture Room (Room E009, UCY Main/Old Campus, 75 Kallipoleos, Lykavitos, 1678 Nicosia).

The scheduled slot is Mondays from 6pm onwards throughout the spring semester 2011, though we will not meet every week. The overarching theme is going to be 'Comparative Syntax' (coinciding with the cponymous seminar ENG 564 taught by Kleanthes), and we will focus in CAT Lectures on the topics most relevant for our participation in COST Action IS0804 ('biSLI'): wh-questions, relative clauses, clitic constructions, and more. Basically, anyone who would like to present something, should get in touch with Kleanthes by email.

Date	Presenter	Topic	Notes
January 17 (6pm, E009)	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	'Comparative Syntax at CAT'	introduction to ENG 564 & CAT Lectures @ Spring 2011
January 18	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CAT Research Agenda: Spring 2011	introduction to CAT Meetings @ Spring 2011
January 25	Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Lena Papadopoulou	CAT Research Projects: List	compilation of what we're doing
February 1	Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Lena Papadopoulou	CAT Research Projects: Tasks	distribution of concrete tasks (abstracts, research, etc.)
February 7 (6pm, E010)	Loukia Taxitari	Gavagai! – or Constraint-Guided Learning during Lexical Development	CAT Lecture
February 8	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CAT Research Projects: Papers	start writing up CAT research papers and discuss issues
February 15	Koula Tantele	CAT Research Projects: Narratives	report from IS0804 Berlin STSM meeting (WG2)
February 22	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CAT Research Projects: Abstracts	organization & preparation of conference abstracts
March 1	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	CAT Research Projects: Leftovers	further issues concerning CAT research activities
March 8	Kleanthes K. Grohmann	Practical Project Proposaling	on how to conceive of and write up research projects
March 15	Panos Pappas	Foundational Concepts of Variationism and the Adger Platform	presentation & discussion of work by D. Adger and others
March 21 (6pm, E009)	Antri Kanikli	Wh-Clefting in Cypriot Greek	CAT Lecture
March 22	Charley Rowe	Sociolinguistic Applications and Implications of CAT Research	presentation & discussion of work by D. Adger and others
March 29		NO CAT MEETING
April 5	Michalis Michaelides	CAT Research Projects: Discussion	experimental design & stats brainstorming
April 12	Panos Pappas	Results of a Magnitude Estimation Test for Cypriot Greek Clitics	conference practice talk
April 14 [THU] (6pm, E 009)	Alexia Galati	*Dialogue Is Collaborative: How Our Conversational Partners Influence How We Think and Speak*	CAT Lecture
April 19		NO CAT MEETING (EASTER BREAK)
April 26		NO CAT MEETING (EASTER BREAK)	WED
May 4 [WED]	Marina Varnava	Exhaustivity in Wh-Questions	AMGL 32 pratice talk
May 10	Esmeralda Garza	Ser or Estar? Copula Preference of L1 CG Learners of Spanish	research report
May 17	Stella Tsigka	Clitic Movement in Cypriot Greek Agrammatic Speakers	research presentation
May 24		NO CAT MEETING	TUE
May 31 [TUE 6pm, CAT Lair]	Sonja Eisenbeiss (with Shorouq Al-Houti)	The Acquisition of Noun-Phrase Internal Agreement in German and Kuwaiti Arabic Child Language	CAT Lecture
June 1 [WED 6pm, CAT Lair]	Sonja Eisenbeiss	Analyses of Child-Directed Speech	CAT Tutorial
June 6–9 [4 days, all day]	Stefan Gries (UCSB)	Statistics Bootcamp — R for Linguists	Statistics Tutorial — intensive course; contact me for participation & details
June 15 [WED 5pm, Limassol]	Elena Theodorou	Discussion of Diagnostic Tools for SLI in CG	SLT–Ling research meeting

CAT Meetings: Fall 2010

From September 8 onwards, CAT Meetings will be held on the UCY Main Campus (75 Kallipoleos, Nicosia) throughout the fall semester. The scheduled slot is Wednesdays from around 5pm to 7pm in room A008. From November onwards, we have a new location -- the CAT Lair! The location is 48 Kallipoleos, Loucas Court, 3rd floor (rooms 310–311).

CAT Meetings: Summer 2010

In between semesters, CAT Meetings will be held at UCY (in the conference room of the Department of English Studies). The meeting dates are limited, Tuesdays from 5pm to 7pm, on these dates:

May 4 (Gen-CHILD Project Meeting)
May 10 (Erasmus Tutorial: Sonja Eisenbeiss)
May 11 (Gen-CHILD Project Meeting)
May 19 (Gen-CHILD Project Meeting)
June 1 (Gen-CHILD Project Meeting)
June 11 (CAT Special Lecture: Alex Provic)
June 14 (Clitics Group Special Meeting)
June 15 (Erasmus Lecture: Arhonto Terzi)
July 6 (summer planning and beyond)

CAT Meetings: Spring 2010

Throughout the semester, CAT Meetings will be held at Oktana, a nice café in the Old Town of Nicosia. The scheduled slot is Tuesdays from 4.30pm to 6pm, but the place and atmosphere will ideally lead to extended sessions for more discussion and socializing. The week-by-week schedule and some downloadable materials will be posted soon. (Details on previous semesters can be viewed here.)