30.462, Calls: Language Acquisition/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-462. Tue Jan 29 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.462, Calls: Language Acquisition/Germany

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:11:22
From: Assunta Süss [suess at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: BiALL - Bilingual Acquisition of Language and Literacy

 
Full Title: BiALL - Bilingual Acquisition of Language and Literacy 
Short Title: BiALL 

Date: 22-May-2019 - 24-May-2019
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Assunta Süss
Meeting Email: BiALL-conference at leibniz-zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

BiALL is organized as part of the closure of the DFG-funded project DRUSLI,
investigating early predictors of bilingual children's reading and writing
competence in primary school. Observing the language development of bilingual
children in the transition period from kindergarten to school, we are
interested in the association between the acquisition of literacy and various
domains of the preschool verbal language such as lexicon and grammar.

Attached to the conference will be a satellite workshop on outcomes from
DRUSLI (ZAS) and our partner project SEDRiK (LMU Munich). The following
competences are going to be in the focus there: (a) the phonological
competence (phonological representations measured based on NWRT and on
decision tasks between existing words and non-words), phonological awareness
and rapid automatized naming, and (b) narrative abilities with morphological,
syntactic and semantic components as well as the competence in discourse,
macrostructure and microstructure. All these components are considered as
being predictors for the later ability of reading, writing and spelling.


Call for Papers:

We are happy to announce the BiALL Conference, hosted by the the
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics in Berlin from 22-24 May 2019. BiALL was
created as an opportunity to discuss recent topics in bilingual and heritage
language acquisition and literacy.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta, Canada)
Bernhard Brehmer (Universität Greifswald, Germany) 

We now accept submissions for platform presentations for BiALL (there will be
no poster sessions). The submission deadline is 1 March 2019. 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Bilingual child language acquisition & literacy development
- Early bilingualism, heritage languages & cognitive development
- Written language and bilingualism of languages with different levels of
relatedness/in different modi (spoken/signed/written)
- Narrative ability in bilinguals
- Transition from pre-school to school and its implications on language
development

Papers can report results from one or more of the multi/bilinguals’ languages.
Abstracts reporting results from longitudinal studies are especially welcome.

Deadline and important dates:

1 March: Deadline abstract submission
14 March: Information about acceptance status 
22-24 May: BiALL conference, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Berlin,
Germany

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts for platform presentations addressing at least one of the topics
mentioned above are to be submitted
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biall2019 until March 1st 23:59 CET.
We accept a maximum submission of one abstract as first author per person.
There is no limit with regards to second and last author. 

Abstract guidelines:
- Length: 300 words maximum (excluding references).
- Abstracts must be anonymous

Conference Fee:

Staff: 50 euro, students: 30 euros
The conference dinner is included in the conference fee.

Contact:

BiALL-conference at leibniz-zas.de
BiALL Organising Committee
Assunta Süss, Josefin Lindgren, Natalia Gagarina




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