36.2692, Confs: Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts (Czech Republic)

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Subject: 36.2692, Confs: Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts (Czech Republic)

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Date: 10-Sep-2025
From: Egle Mocciaro [egle.mocciaro at mail.muni.cz]
Subject: Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts


Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts

Date: 30-Sep-2025 - 01-Oct-2025
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Contact: Egle Mocciaro
Contact Email: egle.mocciaro at mail.muni.cz

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Language Acquisition

"Developing new languages in migration contexts” will take place from
September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk  University (Czech
Republic), under the framework of OP JAK “LangInLife”
(https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477).
The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second
Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing
additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro &
Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research season in the
1970-90s (Becker et al. 1977; Clahsen et al. 1983; Bernini & Giacalone
Ramat 1990; Klein & Perdue 1992), scholars have in fact focused on
other types of learners or, when working with migrants, have mostly
ignored the specific learning conditions that occur in a migration
context (see Forsberg Lundell & Beaulieu 2022). As repeatedly pointed
out by several scholars in the last two decades (see Andringa 2022;
Bigelow & Tarone 2004; Henrich et al. 2010; Plonsky, 2023), this gap
poses serious problems of sample representativeness and
generalisability of research findings, as the vast majority of those
who develop new languages as adults do so as part of a migration
experience.
There is now an urgent need to promote a transdisciplinary approach to
the study of Second Language Acquisition, narrowing the gap with
sister disciplines by explicitly including in the research variables
hitherto neglected or only summarily observed. These include variables
related to the learners’ sociolinguistic background (also in the light
of the social turn invoked e.g. by Block 2003; Douglas Fir Group 2016;
Ortega 2019), which has only in recent years begun to attract the
attention of scholars (see Young-Scholten et al. 2019). Typological
issues are equally crucial, as recent changes in the geography of
migrations have mobilised a range of source and target languages that
differs from the narrow inventory represented in past studies.
Therefore, a more careful consideration of the starting and ending
point of the acquisition path, their structural properties and
typological distance is essential (see Benazzo et al. 2023). Another
critical point concerns the methodologies used to construct the
acquisitional datum. In recent years, a clear divide has emerged in
the forms of data collection: while Second Language Acquisition
research tends to employ almost exclusively experimental data, the
focus on the naturalistic or communicative data (which characterised
SLA studies in previous decades) has become the preserve of
sociological or sociolinguistic approaches. Combining different data
sources and methodologies could shed new light on how new languages
emerge and are used by adults.
Keynote Speakers:
- Friederike Lüpke (University of Helsinki)
- Ewa Dąbrowska (Univeristy Friedrich-Alexander, Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Programme:
https://romanistika.phil.muni.cz/media/3911780/official-programme_1.pdf
Registration:
https://romanistika.phil.muni.cz/aktuality/developing-new-languages-in-migration-contexts
To participate remotely, please contact Egle Mocciaro
(egle.mocciaro at mail.muni.cz) or Eleonora Zucchini
(256684 at mail.muni.cz).



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