28.3907, Confs: Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax/Norway

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Subject: 28.3907, Confs: Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:19:29
From: Guro Busterud [guro.busterud at ntnu.no]
Subject: Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism

Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism 

Date: 25-Oct-2017 - 26-Oct-2017 
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact: Øystein Vangsnes 
Contact Email: bidialectalism at list.uit.no 
Meeting URL: http://site.uit.no/acqva/workshop-bidialectalism/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The AcqVA research group (Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) at University
of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU) is pleased to announce the workshop
Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism, to be held in Tromsø
October 25-26, 2017. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers
who work on structural and developmental aspects of bidialectalism broadly
understood as 'bilingualism involving closely related linguistic varieties'.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts
Professor Leonie Cornips, Meertens Institute
Professor Raphael Berthele, University of Fribourg
Associate Professor Laura Wagner, Ohio State University

Although the focus of the workshop is not to investigate the distinction
between 'bilingualism' and 'bidialectalism', we may remind ourselves about the
notoriously difficult distinction between 'language' and 'dialect'. A pair of
distinct linguistic varieties may end up being categorized as dialects or as
separate languages depending on whether one uses linguistic, historical,
communicative, political or other criteria. For instance, by the communicative
criterion ''mutual intelligibility'' the Mainland North Germanic varieties
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish should presumably be categorized as different
dialects - which also squares with the largely common linguistic properties of
the varieties - yet they are, for political and historical reasons, more
commonly thought of as different languages.

In turn, Övdalian, a variety of North Germanic spoken in Central Sweden, is
linguistically speaking much further from Standard Swedish than Norwegian is
and it is furthermore not comprehensible to the average Swede. Nevertheless
the official Swedish view is, for political reasons, that Övdalian is a
dialect of Swedish. In a similar vein, the two written standards of Norwegian,
Bokmål and Nynorsk, are by many considered different codified versions of the
same language, although they have different historical origins and although
there are linguistic differences between them similar to those found across
the Mainland North Germanic varieties.

What is important about situations like these is that many speakers, both
individuals and groups, end up with linguistic competencies whereby they use
and/or deal with two closely related linguistic varieties on a daily basis. We
wish to explore the characteristics of such situations, be it from a
structural, developmental acquisition, societal or cognitive perspective.

Program: 

Thursday October 26 (Room:Aud Max):

9:30 - 10:30:
The Development of the Perception of Dialect Difference abstract
Keynote Speaker: Laura Wagner (Ohio State University, USA)
Chair: TBA

10:30 - 11:00:
Using eyetracking to assess separation of grammars in bidialectal speakers
Björn Lundquist (UiT, Norway)

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break

Session 5 (Chair: TBA):

11:30 - 12:00:
Seven factors in ‘dialect’ design abstract
Evelina Leivada (Cyprus University of Technology; University of Cyprus; UiT)

12:00 - 12:30:
Asymmetries in Cross-Linguistic Influences in early bilingual acquisition of
extremely closely related languages (Catalan-Spanish): Considering order (age)
of acquisition and type of experimental technique employed abstract
Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading, UK), David Miller (University of
Reading, UK), Ian Cunnings (University of Reading, UK), Susagna Tubau
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), & Jason Rothman (University of Reading,
UK; UiT, Norway)

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break

Session 6 (Chair: TBA):

13:30 – 14:00:
An investigation of bi-dialectal children’s implicature understanding and
executive control skills abstract
Antoniou, Kyriakos (University of Cambridge, UK; Université libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium; Hellenic Open University, Greece), Alma Veenstra
(University of Cambridge, UK; Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Mikhail
Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) & Napoleon Katsos (Hellenic
Open University, Greece)

14:00 – 14:30:
Is there a bidialectal cognitive advantage? abstract
Yosiane White (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

14:30 – 15:00:
The well achieving, but slow responding, bidialectally literate of Norway
abstract
Øystein Vangsnes (UiT, Norway; Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)
& Göran Söderlund (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30:
Closely-Related Systems in the Multilingual Repertoire: Language and Dialect
Learning in Switzerland abstract
Keynote Speaker: Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Chair: TBA

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