34.1035, Confs: Variation in Language Acquisition 5

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Subject: 34.1035, Confs: Variation in Language Acquisition 5

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From: Laura Rosseel [laura.rosseel at vub.be]
Subject: Variation in Language Acquisition 5


Variation in Language Acquisition 5
Short Title: ViLA5

Date: 01-Jun-2023 - 02-Jun-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Laura Rosseel
Contact Email: ViLA5 at kuleuven.be
Meeting URL: https://www.vila5.be/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language
Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA) is a conference series aiming
to uncover when and how children and other learners produce, perceive
and evaluate socially meaningful language variation. Tackling these
questions, ViLA is dedicated to push both sociolinguistics and
language acquisition research forward. Traditionally, the field of
sociolinguistic research has predominantly focused on variation in
adult speech communities, thereby backgrounding the question how these
variation patterns are acquired. By contrast, in their focus on the
way language learners acquire standard variants, language acquisition
research has understudied language variation in acquisition.

Combining the psycholinguistic focus on acquisition and the
sociolinguistic emphasis on variation, the ViLA conference series aims
to tackle questions such as:

- From what age do children start acquiring the social meaning of
language variation?
- What role do input (of primary caregivers, peers, media …) and
socialization play in the acquisition of the social meaning of
language variation?
- Are social and denotational meanings of language acquired
simultaneously?
- Does the production of socially meaningful language variation
precede its perception and evaluation? Or is it the other way around?
- What mental processes govern the acquisition of social meaning of
language variation?
- How can a better grasp of the acquisition of socially meaningful
language variation help us understand and deal with processes of
inclusion/exclusion and social biases?
- Which theoretical models from which disciplines offer the most
adequate solutions for describing the processes involved in acquiring
socially meaningful variation and its relation to our more general
understanding of language variation and change?
- Which (combination of) methods are most suited to answer the
questions outlined above, taking into account the complexities of
working with young language learners?

These questions are addressed for various acquisition contexts in
which variation takes central stage:

1. Child acquisition of dialectal varieties of the first language;
2. Child multilingual and multidialectal acquisition within
multilingual/multidialectal communities;
3. Acquisition of language-internal variation as well as language
mixing in the case of second language learning in contact with native
speakers (e.g. study abroad, migration), and learning about
sociolinguistic variation in the foreign language classroom;
4. Lifelong second dialect acquisition.

Program Info:

The fifth conference on Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA5) will
take place in Brussels, on June 1-2, 2023. This edition’s conference
theme ‘language, world and mind in acquisition’ is embedded within the
general conference series’ aim to uncover when and how children and
other learners produce, perceive and evaluate socially meaningful
language variation.

KEYNOTES
- Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Queen Mary University London, UK
- Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago, US
- Irmtraud Kaiser, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Gert Storms & Steven Verheyen, KU Leuven, Belgium & Erasmus
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Jack McMartin & Jan Van Coillie, KU Leuven, Belgium

PROGRAM
The conference program is available here:
https://www.vila5.be/programme

REGISTRATION
Registration for the conference is now open. You can register here:
https://www.vila5.be/registration.

IMPORTANT DATES
End of early bird registration: 7/4/23
End of regular registration: 15/5/23
Conference: 1-2/6/203

Details on the conference venue, keynote talks and conference dinner
can be found on the website: https://www.vila5.be/



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