29.2122, Confs: Language Acquisition/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2122. Wed May 16 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2122, Confs: Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:21:35
From: Theo Marinis [t.marinis at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2018

 
Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2018 
Short Title: Bi-SLI 2018 

Date: 27-Jun-2018 - 28-Jun-2018 
Location: Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact: Theo Marinis 
Contact Email: t.marinis at reading.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://research.reading.ac.uk/bisli2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

Bi-SLI 2018 is the 2nd conference within the Bi-SLI conference series and aims
to bring together researchers who wish to share results of studies on language
development in bilingual children with SLI/DLD compared to bilingual children
with typical development.

Several waves of migration within the past decades have led to an increase in
the number of children worldwide who start pre-school in a language that is
not the language spoken in the home. While speech and language therapists can
successfully identify language impairment in monolingual children, this is far
from obvious when the language they evaluate is the child’s second language.
Numerous studies have documented that bilingual children with Specific
Language Impairment/Developmental Language Disorder (SLI/DLD) are over- or
under-represented in speech-language therapy caseloads.

To address the issues of over- and underrepresentation of bilingual children
with SLI/DLD in speech-language therapy caseloads, the European Cooperation in
Science and Technology (COST) Action IS0804 ‘Language Impairment in a
Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment’
developed the LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings)
tools series that were designed to facilitate the identification of SLI/DLD in
bilingual children. It also started the Bi-SLI conference series with Bi-SLI
2015 at the University of Tours (http://bisli2015.univ-tours.fr/).

The invited speakers for Bi-SLI 2018 are:

Prof Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Prof Lisa Bedore (University of Texas at Austin)

Bi-SLI 2018 is immediately after the Child Language Symposium 2018 (25-26 June
2018) which will also be at the University of Reading
(http://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/events/cls2018/).

Bi-SLI 2018 will be followed by a knowledge transfer workshop for speech &
language therapists and other professionals who support multilingual children.
The knowledge transfer workshop will be on the 29th June.

The Conference is organised by the Centre for Literacy & Multilingualism at
the University of Reading (https://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/).

Organising committee: Theo Marinis, Ludovica Serratrice, Emma Pagnamenta,
George Pontikas

For more information, visit our web-site:
https://research.reading.ac.uk/bisli2018/
 

Programme: 

The programme for the 2nd Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment
(Developmental Language Disorder) at the University of Reading is out.
Registration is still open. Visit the conference web-site for more
information: https://research.reading.ac.uk/bisli2018/

Wednesday 27 June 2018

8:30am - 9:00am:
Registration

9:15am - 10:15am:
Keynote: Ianthi Tsimpli

10:15am - 10:45am:
Anny Castilla-Earls
The Intersection between Language Loss and Language Impairment: The Role of
Grammaticality 

10:45am - 11:15am: Coffee break

11:15am - 11:45am:
Yasmine Ouchikh, Lia Pazuelo, Zhamilya Yerimbetova, Jessica Scheuer and Klara
Marton
Working memory updating and interference control in mono- and bilingual
children with SLI 

11:45am - 12:15pm:
Klara Marton, Jessica Scheuer, Yasmine Ouchikh, Zhamilya Yerimbetova and Lia
Pazuelo
Joint effects of bilingualism and specific language impairment: Interaction
between speed of processing and cognitive control 

12:15pm - 2:00pm:
Lunch and poster

2:00pm - 2:30pm:
Tessel Boerma and Elma Blom
Quasi-universal nonword repetition and narrative performance over time: A
longitudinal study on 5- to 8-year-old children with diverse language skills 

2:30pm - 3:00pm:
Laurie Tuller, Cornelia Hamann, Philippe Prévost, Solveig Chilla, Christophe
Dos Santos, Sandrine Ferré, Racha Zebib, Eléonore Morin and Lina Abed Ibrahim
Identifying language impairment in bilingual children in France and in Germany

3:00pm - 3:30pm:
Natalia Meir: Nonword repetition
A comparison of bilingual children with SLI to younger and unbalanced
bilinguals with typical language development 

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break

4:00pm - 4:30pm: 
Nebiye Hilal San and Solveig Chilla
Identifying Specific Language Impairment in the L1 of bilingual
Turkish-speaking children in Germany and France 

4:30pm - 5:00pm: 
Eleni Peristeri, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli and Despoina Papadopoulou
Bilingualism effects in reference processing in Specific Language Impairment:
Evidence from subject pronoun production and comprehension 

5:00pm - 5:30pm: 
Karen Rose, Carmit Altman and Sharon Armon-Lotem
Using monolingual assessment to distinguish between bilingual children with
and without SLI 

5:30pm - 6:00pm:
Hui Min Low, Julien Mayor, Tze Peng Wong and Jun Ho Chai
Does multiple language exposure increase risks of developmental language
disorder? 

7:00pm: Conference dinner

Thursday 28 June 2018

9:00am - 9:30am:
Sveta Fichman, Joel Walters, Sharon Armon-Lotem and Carmit Altman
A cross-linguistic comparison of referential expressions in narratives of
Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with typically developing language and with
SLI 

9:30am - 10:00am:
Lia Pazuelo, Luca Campanelli, Yasmine Ouchikh, Thorfun Aramridth, Jessica
Scheuer and Klara Marton
Interference During Language Comprehension of Ambiguous Sentences in Bilingual
and Monolingual Children with SLI 

10:00am - 10:30am:
Adelaida Restrepo, Marilyn Thompson, Trina Spencer and Douglas Petersen
Does the CELF-P English and Spanish predict performance on response to
intervention? 

10:30am - 11:00am: Coffee break

11:00am - 11:30am:
Elena Tribushinina, Elena Dubinkina and Nadezhda Rabkina
Can children with DLD acquire a second language with minimal exposure? 

11:30am - 12:00pm:
Angela Grimm and Petra Schulz
Language assessment for bilingual preschoolers: (When) do they catch up with
their monolingual peers? 

12:00pm - 12:30pm:
Theodora Papastefanou and Theodoros Marinis
''Cross-language transfer in bilingual children's phonological awareness and
reading decoding has implications for the identification of bilingual children
with language impairment'' 

12:30pm - 2:00pm: Lunch and poster

2:00pm - 2:30pm  
Magdalena Łuniewska, Marta Wójcik, Joanna Kołak, Karolina Mieszkowska, Zofia
Wodniecka and Ewa Haman
Bilingual and SLI children differ in LITMUS-CLT scores 

2:30pm - 3:00pm:
Linnéa Öberg, Rima Haddad and Ute Bohnacker
Non-word repetition tasks as a screening tool for Language Impairment: Effects
of non-word items, age and exposure patterns in typically developing
Arabic-Swedish speaking bilinguals (4-7) 

3:00pm - 3:30pm:
Stanislava Antonijevic, Clare Carroll, Mary Pat O'Malley, Ruth McMenamin, Rena
Lyons, Laura Loftus, Margaret Rodden, Yvonne Fitzmaurice and Patrick Keane
Language Assessment of Monolingual and Multilingual Children Attending a
Disadvantaged Background School: Using the LITMUS tasks 

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break

4:00pm - 4:30pm:
Natalia Meir, Revital Bazes, Marissa Hartston and Rama Novogrodsky
Language and Theory of Mind abilities of bilingual children with High
Functioning Autism 

4:30pm - 5:00pm:
Mada Alhassan and Theodoros Marinis
Developing a Sentence Repetition Task for children with and without Autism in
Saudi Arabia 

5:00pm - 6:00pm:
Keynote: Lisa Bedore
Developmental Language Disorders in Two Languages: Patterns Typical and
Impaired Language Performance in Spanish English Bilinguals

Alternates:

1. Aviva Soesman
Codeswitching as a Potential Indicator of Bilingual SLI: 
Lexical inaccuracies and Non-Elicited Codeswitching in a Sentence Repetition
Task

2. Lina Ibrahim, István Fekete and Cornelia Hamann 
Identification of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in simultaneous and
successive bilinguals by evaluating Sentence Repetition (SRT) and Nonword
Repetition Tasks (NWRT) Using a Machine Learning Algorithm 

3. Vicky Chondrogianni, Morna Butcher, Maria Garraffa and Thomas Bak 
Developing language assessments for primary school children with and without
Developmental Language Disorder in Gaelic-medium education

Posters Wednesday 27 June 2018:

1. Aviva Soesman:
Codeswitching as a Potential Indicator of Bilingual SLI: 
Lexical inaccuracies and Non-Elicited Codeswitching in a Sentence Repetition
Task

2. Lina Ibrahim, István Fekete and Cornelia Hamann 
Identification of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in simultaneous and
successive bilinguals by evaluating Sentence Repetition (SRT) and Nonword
Repetition Tasks (NWRT) Using a Machine Learning Algorithm 

3. Vicky Chondrogianni, Morna Butcher, Maria Garraffa and Thomas Bak: 
Developing language assessments for primary school children with and without
Developmental Language Disorder in Gaelic-medium education

4. Ingrid Vangen, Camilla Bome and Jan de Jong
The development and pilot of a Norwegian adaption to the Language Impairment
Testing in a Multilingual Setting (LITMUS) Sentence Repetition tasks 

5. Petra Schulz, Angela Grimm and Rabea Lemmer
Are grammatical constraints vulnerable in children with Bi-SLI? Evidence from
finiteness marking in German

6. Daniela Gatt, Ylenia Passiatore and Sabine Pirchio
Profiling the vocabularies of European migrant children attending preschool in
a bilingual and a monolingual country using LITMUS-CLT: methodological
considerations and preliminary outcomes 

7. Atalia Hai Weiss: 
Naming Errors among Hebrew-English Bilingual Preschool Children 

Posters Thursday 28 June 2018:

1. Rima Haddad, Linnea Öberg and Ute Bohnacker
Exploring the lexical abilities and language exposure patterns of
Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (4-7) in Sweden 

2. Ooi Carmen Chia-Wen
Cantonese relative clause comprehension and phonological short-term memory in
children with SLI 

3. Manish Madappa
Identifying Children with Specific Language Impairment Using LITMUS-MAIN- A
Study of Kannada- English Bilinguals in India. 

4. Marie Schnieders and Lina Abed Ibrahim
A Longitudinal Case Study on the Applicability of the German LITMUS-Sentence
Repetition Task (SRT) and Non-Word Repetition Task (NWRT) to Late Successive
Bilinguals 

5. Anna-Lena Scherger
Comparing indicators for SLI in bilingual contexts in German 7-year-old
children using LITMUS tasks 

6. Mariam Komeili, Theodoros Marinis, Parvaneh Tavakoli and Yalda Kazemi
The relationship between internal and external factors on a Farsi-English
Sentence Repetition task for Bilingual children 

Friday 29 June 2018:
Knowledge transfer workshop for Speech & Language Therapists





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