26.342, Summer Schools: 4th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism / Barcelona, Spain

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Subject: 26.342, Summer Schools: 4th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism / Barcelona, Spain

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:53:45
From: Istvan Kecskes [ikecskes at albany.edu]
Subject: 4th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism / Barcelona, Spain

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4th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism / Barcelona, Spain

Host Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Coordinating Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Website: http://www.upf.edu/bsbm/en/

Dates: 14-Sep-2015 - 17-Sep-2015
Location: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Focus: The aim of the Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism (BSBM) is to bring together prominent experts in the field who represent different disciplinary approaches and will discuss the latest research on bilingualism and multilingualism. The school is intended for postgraduate students (MA and PhD), researchers and instructors who are interested in a state of the art review of the field.
Minimum Education Level: MA

Description:
Program schedule:

Monday, September 14th:
9:30 – 13:30 Ágnes Melinda Kovács (Central European University, Budapest)
“Learning two languages in the crib: Cognitive effects of bilingualism in
infancy”

Tuesday, September 15th:
9:30- 13:30 Annick De Houwer (University of Erfurt, Germany)
“Studying the input in bilingual acquisition: methodological and theoretical
considerations and implications”

15:00- 19:00  Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany)
“How does bilingualism affect utterance production and interpretation?”

Wednesday, September 16th:
9:30 – 13:30 Lera Boroditsky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“How do the languages we speak shape the ways we think?”

Thursday, September 17th:
9:30- 13:30 Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
“Learning from heritage languages”

15:00 –19:00  Researchers’ Workshop
Chair: Albert Costa, UPF 

BSBM contains a presentation module directed by Dr. Albert Costa for
prospective participants. There will be a workshop held on Thursday afternoon
(September 17th) where selected participants will present their research. All
those who wish to participate should send an abstract to the organizers to the
email address below. Abstracts should contain no more than 300 words
describing the research project. Submissions of abstracts start on January
20th, 2015 and finish on March 20th. Notification of acceptance will be sent
on April 1st.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                      Cognitive Science
                      Discipline of Linguistics
                      Language Acquisition
                      Pragmatics
                      Psycholinguistics

Tuition: 180 EUR

Tuition Explanation: This amount covers tuition only.

Registration: 20-Jan-2015 to 30-Jul-2015

Contact Person: Eloi Puig-Mayenco
                Email: bilingualism.school at upf.edu

Apply by Email: bilingualism.school at upf.edu
Apply on the web: http://www.upf.edu/bsbm/en

Registration Instructions:
Provide name, affiliation, degree, interest.
Select from payment options.

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