[Corpora-List] CONF: Workshop on Language Acquisition in Cambridge UK

[Thierry Poibeau]

We are pleased to announce a workshop on language acquisition  intitled

MULTIMODAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

26-28 November 2009, RCEAL, Cambridge UK (http://www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/)
Attendance is FREE.

http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/acquisition.html

Please circulate the information.

DESCRIPTION

The study of language acquisition is of paramount importance for 
linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, communication, etc. Children 
produce forms that look or sound like sketches of adult forms. Those 
productions cannot be analyzed without special attention to gestures, gaze, 
mimics as well as the context, the positioning of interlocutors in space, 
and the specificity of discourse objects. The child language community 
shares tools and data through the Internet (especially, the childes 
database) that can be used as a basis for multimodal, multilingual and 
inter- disciplinary research.

PROGRAMME The workshop will be organized over four half days, focusing on 
different aspects of language acquisition.

        Thursday 26 November (afternoon, room GR06/07) - Corpus, coding and 
multimodality
        " 2-3pm: Corpus, coding and metadata (Christophe Parisse, Modyco- 
Inserm, CNRS-U. Paris Ouest Nanterre)
        " 3-4pm: Pointing gesture and multimodality (Emmanuelle Mathiot, 
STL, UMR-CNRS 8163 and Univ. Lille 3; Aliyah Morgenstern, Univ. Sorbonne 
Nouvelle; Marie Leroy, CNRS-MoDyCo and Univ. Paris- Descartes)
        " 4-4:30pm: Coffee break
        " 4:30-5:30pm: Discussion

        Friday 27 November (morning, room GR05) - Child Language 
Argumentation
        " 9:30-10:30am: Argumentation as a motive for syntax development: a 
case study of the development of "parce que" in child language (Martine 
Sekali, Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre)
        " 10:30-11am: Coffee break
        " 11:00-12:00am: From repairs to self-repairs in adult-child 
interactions (Marie Leroy, Univ. Paris Descartes; Stéphanie Caet, Univ. 
Sorbonne Nouvelle; Aliyah Morgenstern, Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle)
        " 12-12:30am: Discussion

        Friday 27 November (afternoon, room GR05) - Contrastive studies
        " 2-3pm: Over-informative children: Production/comprehension 
asymmetry, or tolerance to pragmatic violations? (Cat Davies, Univ. of 
Cambridge)
        " 3:4pm: Acquiring tense and aspect in Tamil (Dr. Lavanya Sankaran, 
Univ. of London, Queen Mary)
        " 4-4:30pm: Coffee break
        " 4:30-5:30pm: Comparing processes in child L1 and child and adult 
L2 acquisition (Henriette Hendriks and Helen Engemann, Univ. of Cambridge).

        Saturday 28 November (morning, room GR06/07) - Reformulations
        " 10:11am: The acquisition and development of argumentative skills 
in children from 4-18: mechanisms underlying deductive and probabilistic 
reasoning (Jodi Tommerdahl, University of Birmingham)
        " 11:12am: General discussion Large periods of time will be devoted 
to discussion, with panelists introducing comments after paper 
presentation.

Workshop Chairs

        " Henriette Hendriks
        (RCEAL, University of Cambridge, UK)
        " Aliyah Morgenstern
        (Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
        " Thierry Poibeau
        (CNRS and Université Paris 13, France)

The workshop will be held on the ground floor (rooms GR05, GR06 and GR07) 
of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics 9 West Road, 
Cambridge, UK (Faculty of English).

More information:
http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/acquisition.html



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