Child Language at AILA

[Brian MacWhinney]

AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language
Annick DE HOUWER and YAMAMOTO, Masayo, Co-Convenors

Symposium announcement: 'The Early Acquisition of More than One Language
from Infancy with Special Reference to Chinese', at AILA2002 (13th World
Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Singapore,
Dec. 16-21, 2002)


Monday, December 16, 3:30-5:30 pm

3:30-4 pm

Welcome - YAMAMOTO Masayo (Chair), Japan

Bilingual First Language Acquisition and research on children's acquisition
of Chinese in addition to another language - Annick DE HOUWER, Belgium

4-4:30 pm

Self and other pronominal reference in a Mandarin-English bilingual child -
Ruying QI, Bruno DI BIASE, Stuart CAMPBELL, Australia

4:30-5 pm

Cross-linguistic influence in Hong Kong children's bilingual development:
Integrating input ambiguity and dominance - Virginia YIP, Stephen MATTHEWS,
China (Hong Kong)

5-5:20 pm

Discussion and Conclusion


Business Meeting

Monday, December 16, 5:30-6:30 pm

Open floor: Future directions for the AILA Scientific Committee on Child
Language

Anyone interested in the AILA Scientific Committee on Child Language is
cordially invited to the Open Floor session even if they weren't at the
symposium.