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Workshop: Acquisition at the Interface
Monday October 22 - Tuesday October 23, 2012
Venue: E0101 & E0105
*call for abstracts [closed]*
Organizing committee
Roksolana Mykhaylyk and Merete Anderssen
Workshop description
It has been suggested that language learners might have particular difficulties acquiring linguistic phenomena at some linguistic interfaces (i.e., syntax-pragmatics), but not at others (e.g., syntax-semantics or morphology-phonology). Two influential hypotheses have been advanced in order to explain these difficulties in bilingual and L2 acquisition, i.e., the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011; Tsimpli et al. 2004) and the Cross-linguistic Influence Hypothesis (Hulk & Müller 2000). These accounts have prompted a number of studies testing the general proposals with several language combinations and various linguistic phenomena.
This two-day workshop with the proponents of the main hypotheses and their followers (or opponents) will allow us to discuss a number of questions about the role of interfaces in acquisition: How do various language learners acquire linguistic phenomena pertaining to interfaces? Is there a difference between first language acquisition, child bilingual acquisition and adult second language learning of the same phenomena? Which interfaces are more/less vulnerable? What is the difference between intra-linguistic interfaces (e.g., morphology-semantics) and extra-linguistic interfaces (e.g., syntax-pragmatics)? Could these differences be extended to the general issue of the ‘mind and context’?
Invited speakers
- Holger Hopp (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Natascha Müller (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
- Jason Rothman (University of Florida, USA/University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Elena Tkachenko (Oslo University College, Norway)
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Program:
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Monday, October 22, in E0101 |
Tuesday, October 23, in E0105 |
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09:30-10:00 |
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli & Aafke Hulk Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & University of Amsterdam / NIAS Null objects in child language and the notion of default in syntax and pragmatics |
Holger Hopp University of Mannheim The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in L2 processing |
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10:00-10:30 |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Merete Anderssen & Kristine Bentzen CASTL/University of Tromsø Cross-linguistic influence outside the syntax-pragmatics interface: A case study of the acquisition of definiteness
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Eithne Guilfoyle & Franchesca La Morgia Dublin City University & University of Reading Vulnerability at the interface and the nature of the input: Evidence from post-verbal subjects in Italian-English bilingual children |
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11:30-12:00 |
Jason Rothman University of Florida/University of Ottawa Comparing different types of bilinguals with the same methodology and the Interface Hypothesis: Modality alternations at the syntax-discourse interface |
Gillian Ramchand CASTL What´s an Interface and why should it matter? |
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12:00-12:30 |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:00 |
Katerina Zombolou & Artemis Alexiadou University of Stuttgart Early voice acquisition in German |
Coralie Herve & Ludovica Serratrice University of Manchester Dislocations in French-English bilingual children: A priming study |
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14:00-14:30 |
Antje Sauermann & Barbara Höhle University of Potsdam Language acquisition at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Evidence from German child language and child-directed speech |
Ana Lúcia Santos & Cristina Flores University of Lisbon & University of Minho Comparing child heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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14:30-15:00 |
Elif Bamyaci & Baris Kabak University of Würzburg Non-convergence and optionality in bilinguals at the semantics-morphosyntax interface? |
Tokiko Okuma McGill University L2 acquisition of Japanese null subjects at syntax-discourse interface |
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15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
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15:30-16:00 |
Natascha Müller University of Wuppertal Variation in bilingual children’s input |
Elena Tkachenko Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Processing of verbal morphology in adult L2 learners and bilingual children compared to L1 acquisition |
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16:00-16:30 |
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18:30 |
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Workshop dinner at Fiskekompaniet Sjøsiden. |
