AcqVA: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition

AcqVA retreat – UiT, December 4-5, 2017

Program

Tromsø, December 4-5, 2017

Scandic Ishavshotel

MONDAY DECEMBER 4

11:10 – Flight arrival from Trondheim
12:00 – Lunch (for Trondheim and Tromsø groups)
13:30 – Welcome, HUMEVAL, and introduction
             Marit Westergaard & Terje Lohndal
14:30 – Acquisition and variation in ellipsis
             
Anne Dahl, Dave Kush & Andrew Weir
14:50 – Effects of Formal Instruction in Adult Language Acquisition
            Guro Busterud & Kristin Melum Eide
15:10 – Coffee/tea and discussion in self-defined groups
15:40 – Gender marking on possessives in the Tromsø dialect
           
 Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard
15:50 – Gender assignment on nonce words in Russian
             
Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard
16:00 – Gender assignment on nonce words in German
             Tanja Kupisch & Miriam Geiß
16:10 – Gender assignment on nonce words in Norwegian
             Olga Urek, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard
16:20 – Coffee/tea and discussion in self-defined groups
17:20 – GenBiLex: Gender at the crossroads
             
Rachel Klassen
17:40 – Grammatical gender in Icelandic: A case study of learning transparency
             
Sigridur Björnsdóttir
18:00 – Discussion in self-defined groups
18:30 – Downtime before dinner
19:00 – Sparkling wine in the bar
19:25 –
Walk from hotel to dinner location
19:30 – Dinner at Fiskekompaniet Sjøsiden

TUESDAY DECEMBER 5

09:00 – An ongoing Indo-Norwegian cooperation project: Mixing and variation in dialects of Meeteilon and Norwegian
             
Tor A. Åfarli (with Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
09:20 – Mind the gap: A list of 30 inaccurate, ambiguous, and misused terms in linguistic research
             
Evelina Leivada
09:40 – The inflection of adjectives in Scandinavian
             
Øystein A. Vangsnes & Tor A. Åfarli
10:00 – Coffee/tea and discussion in self-defined groups
10:40 – Different Types of Definites Across Languages and in Acquisition
             
Roumyana Slabakova
11:00 – Acquisition and attrition in the SALT project
             
Martin Krämer & Olga Urek

11:20 – Word order in L3 acquisition
             
Guro Busterud, Anne Dahl & Kjersti Listhaug
11:40 – Coffee/tea and discussion in self-defined groups
12:30 – Summaries and the road ahead
13:00 – Lunch (for Trondheim and Tromsø groups)
15:00 – Departure for the airport
16:30 – Flight departure from Tromsø