37.1985, Confs: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Late Phenomena in First Language Acquisition (Germany)

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Date: 03-Jun-2026
From: Esther Rinke [Esther.Rinke at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Late Phenomena in First Language Acquisition


Workshop at DGfS 2027: Late Phenomena in First Language Acquisition
Short Title: DGfS 2027 (AG Late Phenomena in L1 acquisition)

Date: 02-Mar-2027 - 05-Mar-2027
Location: Jena, Germany

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Linguistic Theories

Submission Deadline: 20-Aug-2026

This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of
the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop organizers:
Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
Workshop Description:
There is a consensus that children are well equipped for the task of
language acquisition, enabling them to master many developmental
milestones in their first language(s) by the age of 3 or 4. The quest
to explain this fascinating capacity of the human mind has led to a
research focus on early acquisition (Guasti 2016). However, the view
that “by age 3 or 4, children have effectively become adults”
(Crain/Thornton 2012) is at odds with empirical findings (see Schulz
2007; Tolchinsky/Berman 2023). This workshop focuses on the question
of which linguistic phenomena are acquired late in first language
acquisition and why.
Studies on late language acquisition remain limited, as phenomena are
often studied in isolation, and explanations have focused narrowly on
specific linguistic or language-external factors, leaving an
integrative perspective largely unexplored. There is a wealth of
studies addressing the late acquisition of object relative clauses
across many languages (Friedmann et al. 2009; Sauerland et al. 2016;
Sanfelici/Schulz 2021), while less is known about other late acquired
phenomena in different languages.
Contributing to a larger picture of late acquisition, this workshop
invites contributions on late phenomena in various linguistic domains
and different first languages, which address a variety of linguistic
and extra-linguistic factors (e.g. cognitive maturity, input). The
workshop will focus on morphological, syntactic, and semantic
phenomena as well as phenomena at the syntax/discourse interface. Late
acquisition is defined as age 5 or older. The overall aim of this
workshop is to reconcile different hypotheses in order to better
capture the relationship between the set of late phenomena and the
range of explanations. In this way, the workshop will contribute to
deriving predictions for lateness in language acquisition and, in
addition, to theoretical accounts of linguistic complexity in general.
It will form a basis for future collaborative research projects
investigating late acquired linguistic phenomena and how they interact
with the development of cognition. We invite contributions addressing
the following aspects:
1.      The interaction of late acquisition and the development of
cognitive abilities
2.      The role of input for late acquisition
3.      The relation between linguistic complexity and late
acquisition
Workshop Format:
30-minute talks (20 min. presentation + 10 min. discussion). The
language of the workshop is English. Presenters must register for the
conference. In accordance with DGfS regulations, each presenter is
allowed to present in one workshop at this conference. They may,
however, be listed as co-authors on talks in other workshops.
Submission:
Please submit your abstract in both .docx and .PDF formats to
esther.rinke at em.uni-frankfurt.de and
esther.ruigendijk at uni-oldenburg.de.
Abstracts should not exceed one page, including references (DIN A4,
2.5 cm margins, 12 pt font). Be sure to include the names and
affiliations of all authors either at the top of the abstract or in
the body of your submission email.
- Deadline for abstract submission: August 20, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: no later than September 10, 202



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