PROGRAM – MultiGender kick-off seminar
Venue: Gabelshus, Oslo
Thursday May 23
09:00-10:00 Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard: Welcome, intro, info
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Greville G. Corbett, Michael Franjie & Alexandra Grandison: The origin and nature of gender: a psycholinguistic perspective
11:00-11:15 Yulia Rodina: Grammatical gender processing in Russian second language learners of Norwegian
11:15-11:30 Holger Hopp: Extracting gender from the input
11:30-12:00 Monika Schmid: What (if anything) happens to grammatical gender in first language attrition?
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:45 Artemis Alexiadou: Nominal morphology in language mixing
13:45-14:00 Olga Urek: The role of probabilistic phonological cues in gender assignment to novel nouns
14:00-14:30 Natascha Müller: The locus of gender in French
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:45 Discussion/collaboration in smaller groups
15:45-16:00 Tor A. Åfarli: On the structural location of gender in the nominal spine
16:00-16:30 Björn Lundquist: Implementing the elsewhere condition via underspecification or overspecification: evidence from variation and processing of gender markers in Germanic.
17:00 Excursion and dinner at Lille Herbern
Friday May 24
09:30-10:00 Maria Polinsky: Gender agreement vs. concord: Two puzzles
10:00-10:15 Hans-Olav Enger: What is so strange about gender?
10:15-10:30 Ingrid Marie Heiene: Inflection classes and gender in Old Norse vs. Middle and Modern Norwegian
10:30-11:00 Jason Rothman: Gender as a window to multilingual transfer: ERPs from an artificial mini-grammar experiment
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Irina Sekerina: Experimental perspectives on acquisition of gender: Corpus, heritage language bilingualism, and typology
12:00-12:15 Guro Busterud: Grammatical gender in the Oslo dialect. Proposal for a study
12:15-12:45 Tanja Kupisch, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard: The acquisition of gender cues in German-Russian bilingual children
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Visit at CAS
15:30-15:45 Merete Anderssen: Two short stories: Gender in recursive indefinite articles in a Norwegian dialect and in the language of a Norwegian dominant bilingual child in English speaking contexts
15:45-16:00 Janne Bondi Johannessen: Gender in urban Oslo
16:00-16:15 Sigridur Mjöll Björnsdottir: Children’s gender assignment wizardry: Experimental findings from Icelandic
16:15-16:30 Natalia Mitrofanova: Interaction of gender and case in the acquisition of heritage Russian
16:30-17:30 Discussion/collaboration in smaller groups
20:00 Dinner at Arakataka