ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR POSTERS: Variation in first and second language acquisition: comparative perspectives

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ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR POSTERS

International Conference

Variation in first and second language acquisition: comparative  
perspectives

Paris, 7-9 June 2011

Université Paris Descartes

Salle du Conseil

12, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine

75006 Paris, France

Conference site on internet: http://adyloc2011.sfl.cnrs.fr

Organized by the Research Group ADYLOC (GDR CNRS 3195)

Linguistic systems, oral language and cognition: Acquisition and  
disorders

Coordinator: Maya Hickmann



Variation in language acquisition is a well-known phenomenon that is  
still not well understood. Variation can take many forms: variations  
among individuals,, variations during development, and/or variations  
across languages or language families at comparable ages or in  
comparable learning situations.

The conference has two main goals. The first one is to examine all  
types of variations during language acquisition in order to show their  
implications for our understanding of the acquisition process and  
their use in various contexts. Variation phenomena will be examined  
mainly for the acquisition of oral or signed languages, and in its  
disorders, in relation to other communicative dimensions (for example,  
context, interaction, co-verbal gestures). The second aim of the  
conference will be to stress the usefulness of comparative approaches  
in the study of variations for language acquisition. Such perspectives  
include various types of comparisons, which are sometimes combined,  
among different languages (including within a typological  
perspective), different types of acquisition (first and second  
language acquisition, by the child or by the adult, early or late  
bilingualism, ...), as well as different populations (autism, aphasia,  
SLI…) whose atypical acquisition paths can shed light on the  
development of more typical children and adult learners.

The study of variation in a comparative perspective can address many  
questions debated in language-related research in the cognitive  
sciences: the relative weight of constraints from cognitive and  
linguistic systems, the impact of specific properties of source and/or  
target languages, endogenous processes underlying the acquisition path  
of particular learners, the existence of a critical period for  
language acquisition. Applied research will also be discussed,  
particularly in teaching contexts (teaching first and second  
languages) and in clinical contexts (helping patients with disorders  
in oral language).

Keynote Speakers:
Clark, Eve (Stanford, USA)
Lieven, Elena (Manchester, UK & Leipzig, Germany)
MacWhinney, Brian (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
Slobin, Dan (Berkeley, USA)
Tager Flusberg, Helen (Boston, USA)
Von Stutterheim, Christiane (Heidelberg, Germany)

Other speakers:
Bardel, Camilla
Hickmann, Maya

Rose, Yvan
Bassano, Dominique
Jisa, Harriet

Salazar Orvig, Anne

Bernicot, Josie
Kern, Sophie

Sanz, Gema
Champagne, Maud
Morgenstern, Aliyah
Van Geert, Paul

Choi, Soonja
Nir-Sagiv, Bracha

Veneziano, Edy
Choi, Jinnam
Noyau, Colette
Véronique, Daniel
Christophe, Anne
Özyürek, Asli
Vihman, Marylin
Dardier, Virginie
Pizzuto, Elena

Volker, Olga
Démonet, Jean-François
Rast, Rebekah

Watorek, Marzena
Garcia-Debanc, Claudine
Reilly, Judy
Wauquier, Sophie

Organizing Committee:

Hickmann, Maya, CNRS &  Université de St Denis Paris 8, France
Jisa, Harriet, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Veneziano, Edy, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Morgenstern, Aliyah, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France

Scientific committee:
Duvignau, Karine ; Hickmann, Maya ; Jisa, Harriet ; Lacheret, Anne ;  
Morgenstern, Aliyah ; Parisse, Christophe ; Rose, Yvan ; Veneziano,  
Edy ; Wauquier, Sophie.
Languages: French and English.

Registration:
Entrance to the conference is free but limited to available space. For  
organizational reasons, registration is necessary before 15 April  
2011.  Please register by filling out the form which you will find on  
the conference site: http://adyloc2011.sfl.cnrs.fr
and then by sending it by email to the following address: adyloc2011 at sfl.cnrs.fr
CALL FOR POSTERS

  There will be two poster sessions, one on 7 June (day 1) and another  
on 8 June (day 2). Proposals are invited on any topic of this  
conference.

  Submission Deadline: 15 January 2011.

  Languages: French or English.

  Abstract maximal length: 300 words

The abstract should include the aim of the study, the methodology,  
results and some discussion.

The review process will be entirely anonymous:

Name(s) and personal information (affiliation, address for  
correspondence and email) of author(s) should figure on a separate page.

Submissions have to be sent to:  adyloc2011 at sfl.cnrs.fr
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2011.

  Contact for any further information: adyloc2011 at sfl.cnrs.fr

  

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