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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Workshop:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Full Title:
Referential Expressions and Text Coherence at the Onset of
School Age <br>
Short Title: Referential Expressions <br>
<br>
Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 <br>
Location: Göttingen, Germany <br>
Contact Person: Dagmar Bittner <br>
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style="" lang="EN-GB">zas.gwz-berlin.de <br>
<br>
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition;
Psycholinguistics <br>
<br>
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010 <br>
<br>
Meeting Description: <br>
<br>
'Referential Expressions and Text Coherence at the Onset of
School Age' <br>
<br>
Organizers: Dagmar Bittner and Nadja Kühn (ZAS, Berlin) <br>
<br>
Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the
German Linguistic <br>
Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February
23-25, 2011 <br>
<br>
Call for Papers <br>
<br>
When starting school, children are expected to produce and
comprehend complex <br>
texts. Psycholinguists, however, argue that children have not
fully acquired
the <br>
target range and functions of discourse cohesive means up to the
age of 8 or <br>
even later. Considerably <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">in</span>c<font
color="#000000">o</font>nsistent claims have been made on when
children <br>
acquire which knowledge and capabilities. At the same time, we
are faced with <br>
great variation in the types of investigated discourse and
research methods. <br>
<br>
Considering referential expressions (RE), there is, for
instance, a debate on <br>
when and how children comprehend the discourse functions of
definite vs. <br>
indefinite noun phrases. Experimental research (e.g. Schafer
& de Viliers
2000) <br>
and studies of narrative data (e.g. Hickmann 2003) report an
overuse of
definite <br>
noun phrases until the age of 7. In contrast, studies of
spontaneous speech do <br>
not report replacement of indefinite by definite noun phrases.
Furthermore, <br>
experimental and narrative studies propose that children up to
age 5 do not
make <br>
anaphoric use of RE (e.g. Karmiloff-Smith 1981, 1985). According
to these <br>
studies, definite noun phrases and demonstrative pronouns are
used only <br>
deictically. This is mainly explained by deficits in theory of
mind: young <br>
children are not able to take into account perspective and
knowledge of their <br>
communication partners. Contrary to this, studies of
pre-linguistic children <br>
(Tomasello 2009, Carpenter 2009) and early spontaneous speech
(Matthews et al. <br>
2006, Bittner 2007) found that children, to some extent, build a
representation
<br>
of their partner's cognitive status and interact appropriately.
<br>
<br>
Focusing on RE, the workshop aims at discussing how to integrate
the different <br>
results and perspectives with a realistic picture of children's
knowledge on <br>
means of text coherence at the onset of school time. We invite
studies dealing <br>
with production and comprehension of RE in mono- and
multilingual acquisition
up <br>
to the age of 6, and especially encourage work focusing on: <br>
- Same type(s) of RE in different types of discourse, e.g.
longitudinal <br>
vs.experimental data <br>
- Same type(s) of RE investigated by different research methods,
e.g. types of <br>
experiments <br>
- Consistency or change of oppositions between RE in different
types of discourse.
<br>
<br>
Papers should contribute to answering the following questions: <br>
- Which knowledge on RE do children process at which
developmental stage? <br>
- Which system of RE do they have at the onset of school age? <br>
- What is the impact of different types of discourse (including
context <br>
situation) on the treatment of RE? <br>
- Are there 'complexity' limits for processing the full
knowledge on a RE? <br>
- Of what type are such limits? <br>
<br>
Bittner, D. 2007. Early functions of definite determiners and
DPs in German <br>
first language acquisition. In: Stark, E., E. Leiss & W.
Abraham (eds.),
Nominal <br>
determination. Typology, context constraints and historical
emergence. <br>
Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins, 215-240. <br>
<br>
Carpenter, M. 2009. Just how joint is joint action in infancy?
Topics in <br>
Cognitive Science, 1, 380-392. <br>
<br>
Hickmann, M. 2003. Children's discourse: person, space and time
across <br>
languages. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press <br>
<br>
Karmiloff-Smith, A. 1981. The grammatical marking of thematic
structure in the <br>
development of language production. In <st1:place w:st="on">W.
Deutsch</st1:place>
(ed.), The child's <br>
construction of language. London: Academic Press. <br>
<br>
Karmiloff-Smith, A. 1985. 'Language and cognitive processes from
a
developmental <br>
perspective.' Language and Cognitive Processes 1: 61-85. <br>
<br>
Matthews, D., Lieven, E., Theakston, A., & Tomasello, M.
2006. The effect
of <br>
perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's
use of
referring <br>
expression. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 403-422. <br>
<br>
Schafer, R. & J. de Villiers. 2000 Imagining Articles: What
a and the can
tell <br>
us about the emergence of DP. BULD 2009. Somerville: Cascadilla
press. <br>
<br>
Tomasello, M. 2009. Why We Cooperate. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:city>,
Mas.: MIT Press <br>
<br>
Abstracts: <br>
<br>
Please send your abstract to one of the organizer's email
address. The abstract
<br>
should not extend one single A4 page (12pt fond, single spaced,
one empty line <br>
between title and text) including references, figures etc.
Please enclose an <br>
extra page with title; name and affiliation of the authors. <br>
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