28.798, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:58:10
From: Guro Busterud [guro.busterud at ntnu.no]
Subject: Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism

 
Full Title: Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism 

Date: 26-Oct-2017 - 28-Oct-2017
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Øystein Vangsnes
Meeting Email: bidialectalism at list.uit.no
Web Site: http://site.uit.no/acqva/workshop-bidialectalism/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

The AcqVA research group (Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) at University
of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU) is pleased to announce the workshop
Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism, to be held in Tromsø
October 26-27, 2017. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers
who work on structural and developmental aspects of bidialectalism broadly
understood as 'bilingualism involving closely related linguistic varieties'.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts
Professor Leonie Cornips, Meertens Institute
Professor Raphael Berthele, University of Fribourg
Associate Professor Laura Wagner, Ohio State University

Although the focus of the workshop is not to investigate the distinction
between 'bilingualism' and 'bidialectalism', we may remind ourselves about the
notoriously difficult distinction between 'language' and 'dialect'. A pair of
distinct linguistic varieties may end up being categorized as dialects or as
separate languages depending on whether one uses linguistic, historical,
communicative, political or other criteria. For instance, by the communicative
criterion ''mutual intelligibility'' the Mainland North Germanic varieties
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish should presumably be categorized as different
dialects - which also squares with the largely common linguistic properties of
the varieties - yet they are, for political and historical reasons, more
commonly thought of as different languages.

In turn, Övdalian, a variety of North Germanic spoken in Central Sweden, is
linguistically speaking much further from Standard Swedish than Norwegian is
and it is furthermore not comprehensible to the average Swede. Nevertheless
the official Swedish view is, for political reasons, that Övdalian is a
dialect of Swedish. In a similar vein, the two written standards of Norwegian,
Bokmål and Nynorsk, are by many considered different codified versions of the
same language, although they have different historical origins and although
there are linguistic differences between them similar to those found across
the Mainland North Germanic varieties.

What is important about situations like these is that many speakers, both
individuals and groups, end up with linguistic competencies whereby they use
and/or deal with two closely related linguistic varieties on a daily basis. We
wish to explore the characteristics of such situations, be it from a
structural, developmental acquisition, societal or cognitive perspective.

A lot of research has been done on different types of bilingual groups (second
language learners, successive bilinguals, heritage speakers etc.), but there
is much less research on speakers who have extensive knowledge on two or more
typologically very proximate languages. Many, or even most, speakers grow up
speaking a certain variety in their home and community that on one or several
levels may differ from other varieties or a national standard language that is
later encountered in e.g. school and media, but yet little is known about
these speakers' representations of a (mutually intelligible) closely related
spoken variety. Do we find the typical phenomena of bilingualism in
bidialectalism? Do we see transfer, attrition and general influence from one
variety to the other in bidialectal speakers? Is bidialectalism qualitatively
different from bilingualism, or is there only gradual difference, possibly
measurable in terms of typological proximity?

Organizers:

Guro Busterud (NTNU)
Björn Lundquist (UiT)
Natalia Mitrofanova (UiT)
Yulia Rodina (UiT)
Jason Rothman (University of Reading, UiT)
Bror-Magnus S. Strand (UiT)
Øystein A. Vangsnes (UiT)
Andrew Weir (NTNU)


Call for Papers:

When: October 26-28, 2017
Where: Tromsø, Norway

We invite paper abstracts for 30 minute presentations (incl. discussion) in
all areas of research on bidialectalism including, but not limited to,
structural linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, education,
psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and clinical linguistics. Topics
addressed at the workshop may include for instance:

- Linguistic constraints and structural variation
- Code-switching
- Acquisition and learning of closely related linguistic varieties
- Bidialectal comprehension and production
- Bidialectalism across the lifespan
- Language processing in bidialectal speakers
- Bidialectal education
- The role of literacy and formal instruction
- Methodological issues

The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2017. Abstract submissions must fit on
one A4 page, written in Times New Roman script, 12 point font. A second,
optional page can be used for references, charts/tables of data and for
examples of experimental methodology only. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. We
expect to inform authors of the outcome of the peer review by early June 2017.

Submit abstract:
http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/customabssub.cfm?emeetingid=6302J
A44585E7E58406840441

Conference website: http://site.uit.no/acqva/workshop-bidialectalism/




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