Call for abstracts: DGfS workshop: Specific conditions in language acquisition (deadline August 15th, 2012)

[Flavia Adani]

We are accepting submissions for the following DGfS workshop, which will 
be held at the University of Potsdam on March 12-15, 2013, as part of 
the DGfS annual conference.

Topic:

The investigation of early language acquisition and its development 
under specific conditions has proven to be a powerful tool to learn more 
about the system of different languages and their acquisition 
mechanisms. Several studies have addressed the question of how children 
acquire one or more languages under specific conditions, such as 
developmental disorders, sensory disabilities, or different ages of 
onset in L2-acquisition. This line of comparative research 
(cross-population and/or cross-linguistic) is able to uncover subtle 
aspects of the language acquisition process that only emerge under some 
specific conditions and it also helps in providing a finer-grained 
characterization of language disorders.

The papers in this workshop will focus on three topics: i) the 
comparison between different populations and different languages as a 
way to characterize the language acquisition process under specific 
conditions; ii) the distinction between “typical” and “atypical” 
language development and the discussion of different explanations for 
the latter (such as an impairment of the linguistic system or a 
performance deficit) and their potential interplay; and iii) the 
contribution of experimental data to inform the representation of 
grammar under specific conditions and vice versa.

The workshop gives an opportunity to address also methodological 
questions, e.g. the factors that need to be controlled when discussing 
different groups and the criteria of matching in order to draw 
meaningful comparisons (e.g. matching based on age, length of exposure, 
or linguistic abilities). Towards this end, the workshop aims to bring 
together recent studies that examine two or more groups acquiring one 
language under different specific conditions or cross-linguistic 
research on children acquiring different languages under the same 
specific condition, namely: children with Specific Language Impairment 
(SLI), children with hearing impairment, L2-learners with different ages 
of onset and children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The 
research will include the acquisition of different aspects of language, 
such as phonetics/phonology, inflectional morphology, and syntax.


Please send a one-page abstract (one anonymous version and one version 
with the authors' names and affiliations) by e-mail to Flavia Adani 
(e-mail: adani (at) uni-potsdam.de), Johannes Hennies (e-mail: johannes 
(at) hennies.org) and Eva Wimmer (e-Mail: eva.wimmer (at) uni-koeln.de) 
by August 15th, 2012.

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