32.1425, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Psycholing/Online

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Subject: 32.1425, Confs: Applied Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Psycholing/Online

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:06:26
From: Cristóbal Lozano [cristoballozano at ugr.es]
Subject: The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution

 
The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution 
Short Title: APRAR 2021 

Date: 19-May-2021 - 20-May-2021 
Location: Online, Spain 
Contact: Cristóbal Lozano 
Contact Email: aprarconference at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aprar2020 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: 
Referring to entities is a fundamental aspect of languages since it allows to
refer to things and people in the world. Speakers can opt for different
referential expressions (e.g. overt and null pronouns, noun phrases, proper
names, etc.) to indicate a particular entity in discourse and listeners have
to be able to select the correct referent according to the speaker’s
intention. This is often known as anaphora resolution. The theme of the
conference is to address the acquisition and the processing of reference and
anaphora resolution. When acquiring, processing and resolving reference,
several factors are involved, such as information status (topic/focus), the
syntactic position of the antecedent, the accessibility of the referent, the
number of potential or competing antecedents, the distance between the
referential expression and its antecedent, etc. So, the aim of the conference
is to gain insight into the different mechanisms that shape anaphora
resolution across languages.

The international conference on “The Acquisition and Processing of Reference
and Anaphora Resolution” (APRAR 2021) is a joint initiative of the Department
of English and German Philology at the Universidad de Granada (Spain) and the
Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies (Centre for Linguistics (CLIN))
at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). The theme of the conference ties
in with the research topic of the ANACOR research project (ANACOR: A
corpus-based approach to anaphora resolution in second language acquisition:
beyond the interfaces; PI: Cristóbal Lozano), an international research
project based at the Universidad de Granada.

OBJECTIVES: 
The aim of this conference is to address the acquisition and/or the processing
of reference and anaphora resolution. The following topics will be discussed:
 - The multiple factors that constrain reference resolution / anaphora
resolution (morphosyntactic, semantic, discursive and cognitive and
neuropsychological factors).
 - Its processing and acquisition in different populations (native speakers,
L2 learners, bilinguals, children, heritage speakers, clinical populations,
etc.).
 - Both corpus and experimental approaches to anaphora resolution.
 - The different mechanisms that shape anaphora resolution across
typologically similar/different languages.
The goal of the conference is to deepen our understanding on the acquisition
and processing of reference and to analyse different approaches to this topic.
 

Program Information: 

The full program is available here:
https://sites.google.com/view/aprar2020/programme?authuser=0

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: 
 - Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh): L1 attrition and L2
acquisition: two sides of the same coin
 - Jacopo Torregrossa (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Bilingual
reference use as a window into input effects in bilingual language acquisition
 - Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge): Deviance in anaphora resolution:
the same symptom in different populations

VENUE: Online (Zoom)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10 May 2021

REGISTRATION FEE: Free for non presenters





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