12.1818, Confs: Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces

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Subject: 12.1818, Confs: Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces

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Date:  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:48:03 +0200
From:  "B. Hollebrandse" <B.Hollebrandse at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces - Workshop, Utrecht Univ

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Date:  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:48:03 +0200
From:  "B. Hollebrandse" <B.Hollebrandse at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces - Workshop, Utrecht Univ

Workshop: "Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces"
date: September 7 and 8
location: Utrecht Universtiy

organized by: the NWO research program: "Interface Issues in L1
and L2 Acquisition"

registration and information: contact Bart Hollebrandse at
b.hollebrandse at let.rug.nl

web-site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm


The topic of the workshop is a central issue in recent
linguistic research that presupposes  modular structure of the
systems underlying linguistic knowledge and language use.
According to this approach, speakers of a language dispose of a
grammar consisting of several modules: syntax, semantics, and
phonology. Moreover, they dispose of a pragmatic system. The
interaction between the three grammatical modules, as well as the
interaction of these modules with the pragmatic system is referred
to as 'interface'.

In L1 acquisition all modules and the interfaces develop
simultaneously. The first question that will be addressed in the
workshop concerns the way in which, in L1 acquisition, the
pragmatics-syntax interface and the semantics-syntax interface
develop. In L2 acquisition the language-specific modules and
interfaces of the L2 develop next to the L1. However, not all
modules have the same status. Whereas pragmatic and semantic
features are supposed to have a universal character, the syntax
expressing these features is partly language-specific. The second
question the workshop addresses is how, in L2 acquisition, the
pragmatic and the semantic modules that have already been
acquired in the L1 obtain an interface with the L2 syntax. The
third issue that will be addressed in the workshop are the testing
methods that are most appropriate to investigate questions of this
nature for L1 and L2 acquisition


participants:
Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA)
Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University)
Enric Vallduví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Ken Drozd (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Henriëtte Hendriks (Cambridge University, UK)
Martha Young-Scholten (University of Durham, UK)
Anne Vainikka (Cognitive Science, John Hopkins, Baltimore)

Peter Coopmans (Utrecht University)
Ger de Haan (Groningen University)
Roeland van Hout (Tilburg University/Nijmegen University)
Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam)
Peter Jordens (Free University Amsterdam)
Astrid Ferdinands (University of Amsterdam)
Petra Bos (Free University of Amsterdam)
Bart Hollebrandse (Utrecht University/Groningen Universities)


Bart Hollebrandse
Letteren/Dutch Department        UiL OTS
University of Groningen          University of Utrecht
Postbus 716                      Trans 10
9700 AS Groningen                3515 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands                  The Netherlands

phone: +31 50 3635632            +31 30 2538176
fax:   +31 50 3636855            +31 30 2536000


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