Workshop: Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism
| WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 (Room: UB132) | |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | REGISTRATION |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Leonie Cornips (Meertens Institute; Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Bidialectal children in Dutch Limburg growing up in a standardized world: a cognitive, sociolinguistic and acquisitional perspective abstract presentation Chair: Øystein Vangsnes |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Norwegian diglossia? abstract Karine Stjernholm & Åshild Søfteland (Østfold University College, Norway) |
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| Session 2 (Chair: Guro Busterud) | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Disputed dialects: Dimensionalisation of variation in Burarra abstract Jill Vaughan (NTNU, Norway) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | The Norwegian roleplaying register Bror-Magnus S. Strand (UiT, Norway) |
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| Session 3 (Chair: Merete Anderssen) | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Acquisition of variable input in Brazilian Portuguese: Gradience in the production of number agreement abstract presentation Ana Paula Jakubów & Letícia Corrêa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Acquisition and processing of lexical tone in East-Limburgian dialects of Dutch abstract presentation Stefanie Ramachers, Susanne Brouwer, Carlos Gussenhoven & Paula Fikkert (Radboud University, The Netherlands) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | A phonetic case study of a bidialectal speaker of Lebanese and Palestinian Arabic abstract presentation Niamh Kelly (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts, USA) Variation and Development: The Question about Bidialectalism and Co-Existent Systems in African American abstract Chair: Andrew Weir |
| 19:00 | ~ WORKSHOP DINNER ~ Address: Hildr Gastro Bar (http://www.hildrgastrobar.com) |
| THURSDAY OCTOBER 26 (Room: UB244) | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Laura Wagner (Ohio State University, USA) The Development of the Perception of Dialect Difference abstract Chair: Yulia Rodina |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Using eyetracking to assess separation of grammars in bidialectal speakers Björn Lundquist (UiT, Norway) |
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| Session 6 (Chair: Natalia Mitrofanova) | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Seven factors in ‘dialect’ design abstract Evelina Leivada (Cyprus University of Technology; University of Cyprus; UiT) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Asymmetries in Cross-Linguistic Influences in early bilingual acquisition of extremely closely related languages (Catalan-Spanish): Considering order (age) of acquisition and type of experimental technique employed abstract Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading, UK), David Miller (University of Reading, UK), Ian Cunnings (University of Reading, UK), Susagna Tubau (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), & Jason Rothman (University of Reading, UK; UiT, Norway) |
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| Session 7 (Chair: Bror-Magnus S. Strand) | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | An investigation of bi-dialectal children’s implicature understanding and executive control skills abstract presentation Antoniou, Kyriakos (University of Cambridge, UK; Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Hellenic Open University, Greece), Alma Veenstra (University of Cambridge, UK; Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) & Napoleon Katsos (Hellenic Open University, Greece) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Is there a bidialectal cognitive advantage? abstract Yosiane White (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | The well achieving, but slow responding, bidialectally literate of Norway abstract presentation Øystein Vangsnes (UiT, Norway; Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) & Göran Söderlund (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Closely-Related Systems in the Multilingual Repertoire: Language and Dialect Learning in Switzerland abstract presentation Chair: Björn Lundquist |