9.15: Introduction
9.30: Ingrid Lossius Falkum: Explaining the development of nonliteral uses of language
10.10: Claire Prendergast: Losing the thread: How 3- and 5-yearolds predict the outcome of a story when non-literal language is used to update events.
10.50 - 11.00: Ten minute break
11.00: Mary Beth Neff: Exploring the parallels between children's 'reality' and 'literal' biases in their referential communication development
11.40: Line Sjøtun Helganger: Children's production of Polarity Focus and the answer particle jo
12.20 - 13.20: Lunch
13.20: Biu Rainey: Innovation, Convention, and Grammatical Class: young children’s understanding of deverbal nouns
14.00: Emma Krane Mathisen: Processing differences between single and extended metaphors and similes
14.40 - 14.50: Ten minute break
14.50: Camilo R. Ronderos: When children are more pragmatic than adults: the case of imprecision
15.30: Nicholas E. Allott: The U-shaped curve: Why do 5-yearolds have more difficulty with figurative use than younger children?
16.10 - 16.20: Closing remarks