31.1489, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Psycholing/Norway

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Subject: 31.1489, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Psycholing/Norway

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:50:24
From: Nadine Kolb [nadine.kolb at uit.no]
Subject: MiMS 2021

Full Title: MiMS 2021 

Date: 16-Sep-2021 - 17-Sep-2021
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Nadine Kolb
Meeting Email: nadine.kolb at uit.no
Web Site: http://site.uit.no/acqva/call-for-papers/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Russian (rus)

Call Deadline: 15-May-2021 

Meeting Description:

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this event is postponed until September 2021.

We are inviting proposals for the workshop Micro-variation in Multilingualism
hosted by the AcqVA (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition) research group and
the project MiMS (Microvariation in Multilingual acquisition & attrition
Situations), funded by the Research Council of Norway 2016-2020. 

Keynote speakers: 
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) 
Cristina Flores (University of Minho) 
Michael Putnam (Penn State University) 
Lydia White (McGill University) 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
micro-variation in bi- and multilingual populations on topics that are
(directly or indirectly) related to the questions investigated in MiMS. Topics
that extend the focus of the project, e.g. to different language combinations,
different linguistic phenomena or different populations, are especially
welcome. The following is a brief project description (more information may be
found on the MiMS project website): 

The MiMS project addresses central issues in linguistics within a new approach
to language acquisition and attrition, the Micro-Cue Model (MCM,) which has
been developed in a number of publications in recent years (e.g. Westergaard
2009, 2014) based on data from monolingual acquisition. The fundamental claim
of the model is that young children do not learn language by setting
large-scale parameters, but that they are sensitive to fine linguistic
distinctions from early on. The MiMS project extends this theoretical approach
to multilingual situations, and new data are collected from several
populations of bi- and multilingual children and adults, e.g. German-Russian
bilingual children, Norwegian-American heritage speakers, and bilingual
children learning a third language. The focus is on (morpho-)syntactic
micro-variation in Norwegian, Russian, German and English, related to word
order and certain aspects of nominal structure (grammatical gender, determiner
use). These languages and these syntactic constructions represent interesting
combinations of challenges, both for children acquiring and adults maintaining
these systems in multilingual contexts. According to the MCM, both acquisition
and change take place in small steps. The MiMS project investigates to what
extent these small steps and fine distinctions are also operative in
multilingualism, as cross-linguistic influence. By identifying the small steps
(referred to as micro-cues), the project increases our understanding of the
human language faculty and the building blocks of language. It also
investigates the effect of more general factors such as complexity, frequency
and economy in the acquisition and attrition processes. Some of the results of
the project may be found in Westergaard et al. (2017), Anderssen et al.
(2018), Mitrofanova et al. (2018) and Westergaard (2019).

Call for Papers: 

The deadline for abstract submissions is May 15, 2021. Abstract should be
submitted here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mims2020 

We welcome both paper and poster presentations. We also encourage junior
researchers to submit their work. Length of presentations is 20 minutes
followed by 10 minutes for Q&A. 

We also plan to publish a special issue in Linguistic Approaches to
Bilingualism (LAB) after this workshop. 

Length of abstracts: max. 1 page; references, examples, charts and tables may
be provided on an additional page. 

Travel grants: PhD and MA students may apply for three travel grants of NOK
5,000 each. Please indicate your interest when submitting your abstract. 

We look forward to welcoming you to Tromsø in September 2021!

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