29.639, Calls: Slavic, Language Acquisition/Germany

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Subject: 29.639, Calls: Slavic, Language Acquisition/Germany

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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:46:04
From: Natalia Gagarina [gagarina at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Heritage Slavic Languages in Children and Adolescents

 
Full Title: Heritage Slavic Languages in Children and Adolescents 
Short Title: HeSLA 

Date: 05-Dec-2018 - 07-Dec-2018
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Natalia Gagarina
Meeting Email: gagarina at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/577323.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

Due to migration, the number of children and adolescents who speak a
(minority) language at home different from the societal (majority) language
has increased. Depending on the country and place of residence, speakers of
these minority - Slavic - languages have different possibilities for
maintaining them (Moser & Polinsky, 2013). On the one hand, this increases
diversity wrt acquisition paths, timing, and levels of attainment. On the
other hand, it creates greater potential for instable use of already acquired
categories. Although Slavic languages exhibit rich morphology and are known
for the high speed at which noun and verb inflection are acquired (Xantos et
al. 2011), the multilingual environment does not provide sufficient input for
a 'typical' developmental path in these languages. The crucial role of input
for acquisition and use of language by children and adolescents is accepted by
both UG-based and usage-based theories. Usage-based approaches emphasize the
crucial role of children's linguistic experience and suggest that structural
properties emerge from usage (e.g. Barlow & Kemmer 2000, Langacker 1987) and
communication needs (Tomasello 2003). Formal theories, on the contrary,
outline language in children and adolescents as a system of abstract
categories and formal representations, which children possess from birth. The
goal of the workshop is to compare various theoretical approaches in terms of
how they fare vis-à-vis empirical data from children and adolescents using
Heritage Slavic languages. Additionally, the similarities and divergence in
language development and use by children and adolescents are in need of (more)
explanation.

This workshop suggests (but is not limited to) the following topics:

- Acquisition path and timing of nominal and verbal categories
- Linguistic input and non-linguistic environmental factors in the acquisition
of Heritage Slavic languages
- Age of onset and attainment in the acquisition of Heritage Slavic languages
- Diversity in the adolescents' Heritage Slavic languages

References:

Barlow, M. & S. Kemmer. 2000. Usage-based models of language. Stanford: CSLI
Publications.
Langacker, R. 1987. Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. I. Stanford:
Stanford University  Press.
Moser, M. & M. Polinsky (eds.) 2013. Slavic Languages in Migration. Wien,
Zürich: Lit Verlag.
Montrul, S. 2008. Incomplete acquisition in bilingualism: re-examining the age
factor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Schmid, M. and B. Köpcke (eds.) 2013. First Language Attrition. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
Tomasello, M. 2003. Construction a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language
Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Xanthos, A., Laaha, S., Gillis, S., Stephany, U., Aksu-Koç, A., Christofidou,
A., Gagarina, A. et 
al. 2011. On the role of morphological richness in the early development of
noun and verb inflection. First Language 31(3). 461-479.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute slots (20-minute presentation plus 10
minutes for discussion) on formal aspects of NP semantics in Slavic languages.

Abstracts must be anonymous (nothing in the abstract or the document should
identify the authors) and consist of no more than two pages (margins: 2.5 cm
or 1 inch, character size: 12 points, spacing: single), including references,
figures, and data.

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdsl13).

An individual may submit at most one single and one co-authored abstract or
two co-authored abstracts, but not with the same co-author.

Please make sure you select the Heritage Slavic Languages in Children and
Adolescents Workshop as goal of your submission!

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: May 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2018

Conference homepage: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/fdsl2018




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