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Directory         1.    Lastenia Arencibia Guerra, Languages in Contact: Cross-linguistic Influence Message 1: Languages in Contact: Cross-linguistic Influence Date: 14-May-2010 From: Lastenia Arencibia Guerra <arencibiuni-wuppertal.de> Subject: Languages in Contact: Cross-linguistic Influence E-mail this message to a friend Languages in Contact: Cross-linguistic Influence Date: 27-May-2010 - 29-May-2010 Location: Wuppertal, Germany Contact: Lastenia Arencibia Guerra Contact Email: arencibiuni-wuppertal.de Meeting URL: http://www.lic.uni-wuppertal.de Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: In recent years there has been intense interest in examining hypotheses that may account for why in the process of acquiring two languages from birth (2L1) some areas of the grammar are more or less vulnerable to cross-linguistic influence. It has been proposed that influence may be induced by the mapping of universal principles onto language-specific principles, by ambiguity in the input, by an inclination to make the languages converge, by structural competition between the languages, by an unbalanced dominance of the two languages, by frequency factors, by differing conceptualizations, by structural 'locality'. The participants in the proposed colloquium examine the validity of the hypotheses offered to account for cross-linguistic influence, their commonalities and differences, with the aim of contributing to the development of a systematic account of the factors that promote this influence (e.g., grammatical domain, language dominance, language combination). To this end, the participants consider a wide range of studies dealing with cross-linguistic influence and present their own analyses of 'vulnerable structures' in a representative sample of various combinations of typologically different languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. 27th May 9:00- 9:15 Registration 9:15- 9:30 Welcome and opening remarks Cross-lingusitc Influence: ser--estar: 9:30 - 10:30 Introductory talk: Carmen Silva-Corvalán (University of Southern California): ''Cross-linguistic Influence in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Are ser and estar Vulnerable?'' 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:00 Karen Zagona (University of Washington): ''The ser/estar Alternation: Syntactic and Semantic Factors '' 12:00 - 12:30 Laia Arnaus Gil (University of Wuppertal): ''The Acquisition of ser and estar in German-Spanish Children'' 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Cross- linguistic Influence: ser-estar and Grammatical Gender: 13:30 - 14:30 Raquel Fernández Fuertes (University of Valladolid) & Juana M. Liceras (University of Ottawa): ''Subjects and Copulas: the Directionality of Transfer'' 14:30 - 15:00 Nadine Eichler (University of Wuppertal): ''Gender Assignment in Switched DPs: German-Italian, German-French, German-Spanish, Italian-French Children'' 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 - 16:30 'Pascual Masullo (University of Bariloche, Argentinien): ''Variable vs. Intrinsic Features: Gender and Number in Spanish'' 16:30 - 17:30 Elena Nicoladis (University of Alberta): ''Dominance Doesn't Always Predict Cross-linguistic Transfer: Evidence from French-English Bilinguals '' 19:00 - Conference Dinner 28th May 9:00- 10:00 Introductory talk: Aafke Hulk & Sharon Unsworth (University of Utrecht): ''Cross-linguistic Influence Revisited'' 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break Null- subjects in Bilingual First Language Acquisition: 10:30 - 11:30 Francesca Filiaci (University of Edinburgh): ''A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Anaphoric Null and Overt Subjects in Italian and Spanish '' 11:30 - 12:30 Ludovica Serratrice (University of Manchester): ''Bilingual Children's Interpretation of Pronominal Subjects in Italian: the Role of Language of the Community and of Language Combination'' 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Null- subjects in Bilingual First Language Acquisition and Heritage Speakers: 13:30 - 14:30 ''Eugenia Casielles-Suárez (Wayne State University): ''Vulnerable Subjects in Bilingual First Language Acquisition'' 14:30 - 15:00 ''Marisa Patuto (University of Wuppertal): ''The Acquisition of Subjects in Bilingual German-Italian and German-Spanish Children'' 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 - 16:30 Tanja Kupisch (University of Hamburg): ''Generic Subjects in Simultaneously Bilingual Adults (German/Italian)'' 16:30 - 17:30 Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (University of Plymouth): ''Language Transmission in English-Spanish Bilingual Families in the UK'' 17:30 - 18:30 Patrick A. Bolger (University of Alberta): ''Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Processing in Heritage Speakers'' 20:00 - Dinner 29th May Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingual Children and Individual Variation: Word Order: 9:00- 10:00 Petra Bernardini (University of Lund): ''Transfer in the Contact between French and Italian? Evidence from the Acquisition of Object Clitics in L2 and 2L1'' 10:00 - 10:30 Valentina Repetto (University of Naples/ Wuppertal): ''The Interaction between Word Order and Information Structure in Bilingual Italian- German Acquisition: a Case Study'' 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:00 Rosemarie Tracy (University of Mannheim): ''Cross-linguistic (Mis-)alignment: Empirical and Theoretical Challenges'' 12:00 - 13:00 Kay González (University of Illinois): ''Light Verbs in Code-switching'' 13:00 - 13:30 Final discussion and farewell The Organising Committee: Prof. Dr. Natascha Müller (University of Wuppertal) Lastenia Arencibia Guerra (University of Wuppertal) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.