AcqVA: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition

AcqVA Retreat 2019 – Programme

The Edge, Tromsø, June 3-4, 2019

MONDAY JUNE 3

11:10 – Flight arrival from Trondheim

12:00 – Lunch

13:30 – Welcome and introduction
Marit & Terje

14:00-15:15 – Thematic groups: Reports and new ideas/plans (15 minutes each)

14:00 – Group 1: V2 Phenomena (Anne & Kjersti)

14:15 – Group 2: Dialects/Registers (Andrew)

14:30 – Group 3: DP Structure & Meaning (Roumyana)

14:45 – Group 4: Adjectival Inflection (Tor & Øystein)

15:00 – Group 5: CLI (Merete & Kristine)

15:15 Coffee / Tea break

15:45-17:00 Presentations of submitted / planned grant proposals (15 min each)

15:45 – Yulia: L2 Acting (or Bilingual CSI)

16:00 – Kristin & Kjersti: ECOLL

16:15 – Øystein: MultiLit

16:30 – Dave: ENKLL

16:45 – Evelina: PluriLingual Minds

18:00-22:00 Excursion and dinner: Northern Sea Adventure

Departure from Nerstranda (right by the hotel). Fishing equipment (and some instruction) included, as well as a buffet with salmon and seafood (plus vegetarian alternatives).
BRING WARM CLOTHES!!

TUESDAY JUNE 4

09:30 – New CoE application: Discussion

10:00 – Presentations of submitted / planned grant proposals (cont.)

10:00 – Guro, Anne & Kjersti: L3 Acquisition in Scandinavia

10:15 – Natalia: MuMin

10:30 – Terje: GenVAC

10:45 – Yulia, Nadine, Isabel, Merete & Øystein: AcqVA outreach: Language exhibition and network building with municipality officials

11:00 – Coffee / Tea break

11:30-13:00 –  Presentations of ongoing work (15 minutes each)

11:30 – Kristin: Variation in input: Passive and active linguistic repertoires

11:45 – Sirri: Predicting variation: grammatical gender in Icelandic.

12:00 – Nicole: Acquiring L2 English vocabulary – are hobbies getting students through university?

12:15 – Björn: Using large scale elicitation experiments to study the process of regularisation in natural language.

12:30 – Anna: Distracting ‘each other’: antecedent retrieval during the on-line processing of the Dutch reciprocal pronoun ‘elkaar’.

12:45 – Gustavo: Effects of Language Contact and Literacy in Language Variation and Change

13:00 – Lunch

15:00 – Departure for the airport

1630 – Flight departure from Tromsø