19.3305, Confs: Language Acquisition/France

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Date: 29-Oct-2008
From: Marzena Watorek < marzenawatorek at yahoo.fr >
Subject: Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives

 

	
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Language Acquisition: Comparative Perspectives

Date: 05-Dec-2008 - 06-Dec-2008 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Marzena Watorek 
Contact Email: marzenawatorek at yahoo.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

Language Acquisition : Comparative Perspectives. Homage to Clive Perdue 

Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR 7023 CNRS) & Université de
Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint-Denis

This conference is a tribute to our friend and colleague Clive Perdue, who
passed away in March. It aims at gathering the contributions of researchers
working in the field of language acquisition around themes that were central to
Clive's research.

This two day conference will focus on SLA (day 1) and the comparison between
child L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition (day 2).

1.	SLA : Adult Second Language Acquisition : Crosslinguistic Perspectives (2
half-days)

The implications of various studies on the different steps of L2 acquisition
will be considered in a crosslinguistic perspective:

What does the study of the « basic variety » and of later acquisitional
sequences tell us about the process of language acquisition by adult L2 learners?

What does the study of the adult L2 learner's language teach us about language
processing in general (production, comprehension, interaction)?

How can the study of a L2 learner's language contribute an explanation of the
nature of language (formal and functional properties)?

What do comparisons between languages or language families bring to these
questions (constraints of source and target languages)?

2.	Adult L2 Acquisition / Child L1 Acquisition - Comparisons Between Different
Types of Acquisition : Crosslinguistic Perspectives (2 half-days)

The implications of the comparisons between types of learners (success vs
non-success of acquisition, acquisitional sequences?) will be considered from a
crosslinguistic perspective in order to:

Study acquisition processes (fossilization in L2, role of cognitive maturity in L1?)

Study language in general and the relation between language and cognition
(inneist, cognitivist, typological approaches?) 

General Programme

Day 1 - 
Second Language Acquisition by Adults : Crosslinguistic Perspectives
December 5th 2008
At Pouchet (CNRS)

9h-9h30 - 
Welcoming the participants

Pascal Binczak (President of Université Paris VIII), Michèle Kail (CNRS), Sophie
Wauquier (head of UMR7023) will pay homage to Clive Perdue.

Discussants:
Monique Lambert, Jean-Yves Dommergues et Daniel Véronique

Introductory Session
Wolfgang Klein 

Presentations are grouped around 3 themes :
I.	Acquisitional Invariants
II.	Linguistic Motivation: Structuring Role of Language and Linguistic Diversity
III.	Final State of Acquisition

Cecilia Andorno
Angelika Becker
Giuliano Bernini 
Rainer Dietrich
Anna Giacalone-Ramat 
Marianne Gullberg
Simona Pekarek
Rebekah Rast 
Christiane von Stutterheim

Day 2 - L1 Acquisition / SLA Comparison Between Types 
of Acquisition : Crosslinguistic Perspectives
December 6th 2008
Paris VIII

Discussants : 
Maya Hickmann, Sandra Benazzo and Marzena Watorek

Introductory Session
Dan Slobin 

Communications are grouped around 3 themes :
I. Acquisitional Invariants
II. Linguistic Motivation: Structuring Role of Language and Linguistic Diversity
III. Final State of Acquisition

Mary Carroll
Christine Dimroth
Karen Ferret
Henriëtte Hendriks
Michèle Kail
Natascha Müller
Carme Munoz
Suzanne Schlyter 
David Singleton
Rosemarie Tracy

Final Session : John Lyons

Round Table
President  :  Anne Trévise
Wolfgang Klein, Brenda Laca, Dan Slobin, Sophie Wauquier, and Sandra Benazzo,
Jean-Yves Dommergues, Maya Hickmann, Monique Lambert, Daniel Véronique, Marzena
Watorek







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