Workshop in Cambridge UK

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Dear Info Childes,

We are pleased to announce a workshop on language acquisition intitled

MULTIMODAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

26-28 November 2009, RCEAL, Cambridge UK
Attendance is FREE.

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
or
aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com


Aliyah MORGENSTERN

Professeur de linguistique
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris





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