32.2856, FYI: Mercator Multilingualism Lecture 2021

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Subject: 32.2856, FYI: Mercator Multilingualism Lecture 2021

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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:57:25
From: Ruth Kircher [rkircher at fryske-akademy.nl]
Subject: Mercator Multilingualism Lecture 2021

 
Lecture title: "We talk, they listen: The role of language exposure in early
multilingual development"

Speaker: Dr Krista Byers-Heinlein (Concordia University, Montreal)

Abstract: Many children around the world grow up bi/multilingual, acquiring
two or more languages from early in life. The specifics of multilingual
language environments vary enormously from child to child, and it is important
to understand how this variation affects children’s acquisition of their
languages. This talk will examine the role of language quantity and language
quality in language acquisition, focusing on children aged 0-5. To understand
the role of quantity, I will present evidence that infants and toddlers are
attuned to the amount that they hear each of their languages, including
studies on in speech perception, online word comprehension, and vocabulary
development in both bilinguals and trilinguals. To understand the role of
language quality, I will focus on how exposure to code-switching affects
language acquisition, including naturalistic studies of the types of
code-switched utterances that parents produce, and laboratory studies on how
code-switched sentences are processed by bilingual toddlers. The talk will
conclude with a discussion of how a better understanding of language exposure
in early multilingual development can inform both policy and practice.

Date: 26th November 2021

Time: 16.15h-17.30h CET 

Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/MercatorMultilingualismLecture2021

Hosted by the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and
Language Learning, which is part of the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden,
Netherlands. All are warmly invited. Attendance is free but registration is
required.

 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition





 



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