This acquisition seminar will give an introduction to central work carried out in the LAVA research group, mainly focusing on bilingualism/second language acquisition. The seminar will be organized as three two-day meetings, taught by Tanja Kupisch, Marit Westergaard and Jason Rothman.
Schedule and readings
MEETING 1: October 10/11, Tanja Kupisch
MONDAY, October 10, 12:15-14:00 (Room C1003) and 14:15-16:00 (Room SVHUM A3019)
Topic 1: Cross-linguistic influence in heritage bilinguals, children and adults; focus on DPs
Kupisch, T. 2014. Adjective placement in simultaneous bilinguals (German-Italian) and the concept of cross-linguistic overcorrection. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17(1), 222-233.
Kupisch, T. 2012. Generic subjects in the Italian of early German-Italian bilinguals and German learners of Italian as a second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(4), 736-756.
Kupisch, T. 2007. Determiners in bilingual German-Italian children: What they tell us about the relation between language influence and language dominance. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10(1), 57-78.
TUESDAY, October 11, 10:15-12:00 and 14:15-16:00 (Room SVHUM A3019)
Topic 2: Cross-linguistic influence in heritage bilinguals; focus on phonology
Kupisch, T., D. Barton, K. Hailer, T. Lein, I. Stangen & J. van de Weijer. 2014. Foreign accent in adult simultaneous bilinguals? Heritage Language Journal 11(2), 123-150.
Lloyd-Smith, A., H. Gyllstad & T. Kupisch. In press. On L3 transfer when the L2 becomes the dominant language: Global accent in Turkish heritage learners acquiring English as an L3. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Kupisch, T. & C. Lleó. 2016. Voice Onset Time in German-Italian simultaneous bilinguals: Evidence on crosslanguage influence and markedness. In M. Yavas, M. Kehoe & W. Cardono (eds), Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology. Studies in Phonetics and Phonology. Equinox.
Stangen, I., T. Kupisch, A.L. Proietti Ergün, & M. Zielke. 2015. Foreign accent in heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany. In H. Peukert (ed.), Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development (pp. 87-108). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
MEETING 2: November 14/15, Marit Westergaard
MONDAY, November 14, 12:15-16:00 (Room SVHUM C1002)
Topic 1: Cue based learning – L1 and L2
Westergaard, Marit R. 2003. Unlearning V2: Transfer, Markedness and the Importance of Input Cues in the Acquisition of Word Order in English by Norwegian Children. EUROSLA Yearbook 3, 77-101.
Westergaard, Marit. 2014. Linguistic variation and micro-cues in first language acquisition. Linguistic Variation 14.1, 26-45.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. Usage-based vs. Rule-based Learning: The Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-Questions in English and Norwegian. Journal of Child Language 36.5, 1023-1051.
TUESDAY, November 15, 12:15-16:00 (Room SVHUM A3012)
Topic 2: Norwegian DP phenomena in bilingual acquisition/attrition
Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. 2015. Grammatical gender in bilingual Norwegian-Russian acquisition: The role of input and transparency. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Lohndal, Terje & Marit Westergaard. 2016. Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or attrition? Frontiers in Psychology.
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. Complexity and frequency in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
MEETING 3: November 21/22, Jason Rothman
MONDAY, November 21, 12:15-16:00 (Room SVHUM C1003)
Topic 1: Generative SLA
Rothman, J. & Slabakova, R. (invited, under revision) Generative SLA and Its Place in Modern SLA Studies. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Roberts, L., González Alonso, J. & Pliatsikas, C., Rothman, J. (in press, 2016). Evidence from Neurolinguistic Methodologies: Can it Actually Inform Linguistic/ Language Acquisition Theories and Translate to Evidence-Based Applications? Second Language Research.
Rothman, J. (2008). Why Not All Counter-Evidence to the Critical Period Hypothesis Is Equal or Problematic: Implications for SLA. Language and Linguistics Compass 2(6), 1063–1088.
Rothman, J., & Iverson, M. (2008). Poverty-of-the-stimulus and L2 Epistemology: Considering L2 Knowledge of Aspectual Phrasal Semantics. Language Acquisition 15(4), 270-314.
TUESDAY, November 22, 10:15-14:00 (Room SVHUM C1002)
Topic 2: Interfaces and adult SLA
Rothman, J., & Slabakova, R. (2011). The Mind-Context Divide: On linguistic interfaces and language acquisition. Lingua 121(4), 568-576.
Rothman, J., & Iverson, M. (2013). Strong islands and null objects in L2-spanish of Brazilian Portuguese natives: do you know the learners who drop___? Studies in Second Language Acquisition 35, 589-618.
Slabakova, R., Kempchinsky, P., & Rothman, J. (2012) Clitic-doubled Left Dislocation and Focus Fronting in L2 Spanish: A case of successful acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface. Second Language Research 28 (3), 319-343.
Rothman, J. (2009). Pragmatic Deficits with Syntactic Consequences: L2 Pronominal Subjects and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Journal of Pragmatics 41, 951-973.
