27.1475, Calls: Romance, Language Acquisition/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1475. Tue Mar 29 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1475, Calls: Romance, Language Acquisition/Spain

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:23:52
From: Anna Gavarró [anna.gavarro at uab.cat]
Subject: Romance Turn 8

Full Title: Romance Turn 8 
Short Title: RT8 

Date: 29-Sep-2016 - 30-Sep-2016
Location: Bellaterra (Barcelona, Catalonia), Spain 
Contact Person: Anna Gavarró
Meeting Email: romanceturn2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://filcat.uab.cat/theromanceturn/#home 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Romance Turn brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas
with the aim of sharing results and developing further research on the
acquisition of Romance languages. Language acquisition studies both in
children and adult learners are central to building our understanding of human
language and how it develops in the brain. The field has witnessed a
continuous growth during the past three decades, with empirical evidence
provided by research conducted on the acquisition of Romance languages such as
French, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese. Following the
success of previous Romance Turn conferences (Madrid (2004), Utrecht (2006),
Southampton (2008), Tours (2010), Lisbon (2012), Mallorca (2014), and Venezia
(2015)) the Romance Turn VIII will be held in Bellaterra on 29 and 30
September, hosted by the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica.

Invited speakers for the main session: Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari,
Venezia) and Julie Franck (Université de Genève)

On this occasion, a workshop will also be held on
The acquisition of information structure: a developmental perspective on its
syntax and interface properties
Organised by: Vincenzo Moscati

Invited speakers: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti

In adult speakers, Information Structure is known to influence both syntactic
and phonological phrasing, leading to dedicated word-orders and prosodic
contours. Many recent developments in linguistic theory have been motivated by
the need to integrate these three systems, and the result is now a better and
more cohesive understanding of their interactions. In this sense, a layered
organization of the CP-field (Rizzi 1997) and the identification of the
cartography of functional projections in the left periphery of the clause,
which encode discourse-related categories like Topic or Focus, has proven to
be a useful tool to better characterize different types of constituent
fronting in Romance Languages. This, combined with the identification of the
distinct prosodic contours associated with specific discourse functions,
provides a new vantage point to reconsider previous findings and raise new
empirical questions.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the
study of information structure in children, specifically those aspects related
to syntax and prosody. In a perspective of a cross-linguistic comparison,
contributions from languages outside the Romance family are also welcome.

Final Call for Papers:

Extended deadline: April 15, 2016

Papers are invited for oral and poster presentations in the area of the
acquisition of Romance languages. All topics in the fields of (typical and
impaired) first and second language acquisition from a generative perspective
will be considered. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10
minutes for discussion.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract (in English) for review. No more
than one single-authored and one coauthored abstract may be submitted.
Abstracts must be at most one page long on an A4 with one-inch margins and
typed in 12-point font. An optional second page may include data and
references. Abstracts must be anonymous. 

The submission website is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rt2016

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