31.1615, Confs: Lang Acquisition/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1615. Thu May 14 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1615, Confs: Lang Acquisition/Spain

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Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 20:59:22
From: Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch [mm.vanrell at uib.cat]
Subject: Satellite Workshop First and second language acquisition of phonology and its interfaces

Satellite Workshop First and second language acquisition of phonology and its interfaces 

Date: 27-Jan-2021 - 27-Jan-2021 
Location: Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain 
Contact: Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch 
Contact Email: mm.vanrell at uib.cat 
Meeting URL: https://ocp18.uib.cat/front-page-features/satellite-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

During the last decade there have been enormous steps forward in our
understanding of the L1 and L2 acquisition of phonology and its interfaces
(such as the phonology-syntax and phonology-pragmatics interfaces).

In L1 acquisition research, studies have concentrated both on the acquisition
of focus and, more recently, on the acquisition of propositional attitudes
including belief and incredulity. Chen (2018), for example, proposed that the
acquisition of focus marking is influenced by four typological differences –
based on evidence from languages such as Dutch, English, Finnish, German,
Korean, Mandarin and Swedish. The differences concern: 
– the reliance on phonetic cues of prosody,
– the transparency or form-function match between phonological cues and focus,
– whether in the language tone is used for lexical purposes, and
– the importance of prosody relative to word order for focus marking.
The first two differences affect the rate of acquisition and the last two
differences imply a related effect on the route of acquisition (see Chen 2018
for details).

Regarding the early acquisition of propositional attitudes, it has been
reported that the ability to detect meanings related to speaker beliefs
quickly develops from 3 to 6 years of age (see Moore et al. 1993, Armstrong
2014, Armstrong et al. 2014, Hübscher et al. 2017, Armstrong & Hübscher 2018),
with some differences depending on the specific meaning. However, Armstrong et
al. (2018) also found that the ability to detect disbelief through intonation
was very much dependent on the acquisition of Theory of Mind abilities
measured through a false belief task.

In the field of L2 acquisition of phonology and its interfaces, focus has also
attracted much interest. Researchers tend to attribute attested learner
problems (non-target productions, failure to acquire certain structures, etc.)
to the difficulty of integrating information coming from different linguistic
submodules, which has led to the postulation of the Interface Hypothesis (e.g.
Sorace 2011). The Interface Hypothesis bases itself on the assumption that not
all interfaces are equally relevant for L2 acquisition. External interfaces
are particularly vulnerable because they imply coordination between the
syntactic module and external, non-linguistic modules. Among the many factors
causing this vulnerability are underspecification of interpretable features
having to do with interface mappings between syntactic structure and
interpretation, cross-linguistic influence in representations, quantity and
quality of the input received by speakers, etc. (Sorace & Serratrice 2009:
198-199).

When it comes to L2 acquisition of the interface between phonology and
pragmatics, different pragmatic meanings (certainty, disagreement, differences
in illocutionary force, sentence types) have been explored from a variety of
theoretical frameworks (see Savić 2014 for a thorough review). However, they
all conclude that even in later stages of language acquisition particular
difficulties are encountered, such as those involving pitch accent choice and
pitch range amplitude.

Call for Papers: 

This workshop is primarily intended to serve as a forum for both empirically
and theoretically oriented papers on either first or second language
acquisition of phonology and its interfaces, especially the phonology-syntax
and phonology-pragmatic interfaces. Submissions on understudied languages are
particularly welcome. We therefore invite contributions related to (but not
limited to) any of the following questions:

1. Are there cross-linguistic differences in the rate and route of early
acquisition of interface phenomena depending on how they are encoded in the
language, be it phonologically, morphologically or by means of word order?
2. In the event that a time lag between comprehension and production abilities
occurs in early acquisition of phonology and its interfaces, to what can it be
attributed?
3. Can the acquisition of Theory of Mind abilities be matched with the
acquisition of specific aspects of the phonology-pragmatics interface?
4. How do the different modules involved in L2 acquisition of focus or speech
acts interact? Is there any evidence in favour of the Interface Hypothesis?
5. To what extent are there differences in the outcome between the L1 and L2
acquisition of interface phenomena? Is L2 acquisition necessarily
non-nativelike?
6. To what extent are there differences in the outcome between different types
of L2 acquisition (such as early child acquisition [eL2], late child L2
acquisition [cL2] or adult L2 acquisition) of interface phenomena?
7. To what extent does the contextual setting (such as explicit instruction in
a language pedagogical setting, type of exposure, previous linguistic
abilities or degree of socialization) have an influence on L2 acquisition?

We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks (to be followed by 10 minutes of
discussion). Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as first
author (or sole author). Abstracts must not exceed two pages of A4 paper
including references, examples, tables and figures, and they must be sent
anonymously and in pdf format. Please use 12 pt Times New Roman font and 2.54
cm (one inch) margins on all sides. Abstract submission, reviewing and
notification of acceptance will be handled using EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=9pEDKVGd1TLAzyOebVyeqt). The deadline
for abstract submission is 15 September 2020. Notification of acceptance will
be in late October.

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