Thursday, April 4
Nedre Lysthus Auditorium
9:00 – 9:15 – Registration
9:15 – 9:30 – Welcome (Marit Westergaard & Rachel Klassen)
9:30 – 10:30 – Invited speaker (chair: Rachel Klassen)
The challenges of noun class systems for L2 learning and processing: Uniting insights from classifiers and gender
Theres Grüter
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
10:30-11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-12:30 – Session I (chair: Yulia Rodina)
11:00 – 11:30
The semantic, morphological and syntactic dimensions of Spanish grammatical gender in the 2L1 acquisition process
Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Esther Álvarez de la Fuente & Sonja Mujcinovic
University of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab
11:30-12:00
The path of gender acquisition in Spanish: Experimental evidence & previous research
Anastasiia Ogneva
University of A Coruña
12:00-12:30
Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian
Natalia Mitrofanova1, Yulia Rodina1, Olga Urek1 & Marit Westergaard1, 2
1UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
12:30-14:00 – Lunch break
14:00-15:30 – Session II (chair: Sigríður Björnsdóttir)
14:00-14:30
Comparison of the acquisition of two transparent gender systems: Italian and Croatian
Marta Velnić
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
14:30-15:00
The role of L2 learner’s L1 in the acquisition of grammatical gender: Evidence from German and English learners of L2 Spanish
Jessica Diebowski
University of Wuppertal
15:00-15:30
Conjoined noun phrases in Icelandic: The role of conjunct gender and working memory in default agreement
Thorbjorg Thorvaldsdóttir & Anton Karl Ingason
University of Iceland
15:30-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-17:30 – Session III (chair: Tanja Kupisch)
16:00-16:30
Grammatical versus semantic gender agreement and the representation of nouns in the mental lexicon: Superlative partitives in French
Thom Westveer
University of Amsterdam
16:30-17:30 – Invited speaker
Björn Lundquist
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
17:45 – Light informal meal (campus)
Friday, April 5
UB 132 (University Library Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 – Invited speaker (chair: Yulia Rodina)
Enlightening mistakes: L2 gender errors as a window on ‘fossilization’, learning, and the role of correct L2 input
Kristin Lemhöfer
Radboud University
10:30-11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-12:30 – Session IV (chair: Merete Anderssen)
11:00-11:30
Predictive processing of gender in Welsh-English bilinguals
Tesni Galvin & Vivienne Rogers
Swansea University
11:30-12:00
Gender agreement attraction in Spanish sentence comprehension: Evidence for cue-based parsing
Jorge González Alonso1, Ian Cunnings2, Hiroki Fujita2, David Miller3, Jason Rothman1, 4
1UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2University of Reading, 3University of Illinois at Chicago, 4Universidad Nebrija
12:00-12:30
Exploring the gender congruency effect in the context of L1 variation
Rachel Klassen1, Lieve Vangehuchten2 & Almudena Basanta2
1UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2UAntwerpen
12:30-14:00 – Lunch break
14:00-15:30 – Session V (chair: Natalia Mitrofanova)
14:00-14:30
Grammatical gender and declension class in the two-gender system of the Tromsø dialect of Norwegian: A study of indefinites and possessives
Yulia Rodina1 & Marit Westergaard1, 2
1UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
14:30-15:00
Grammatical Gender on English words in American Norwegian
Terje Lohndal
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT The Arctic University of Norway
15:00-15:30
Gender patterns in 2L1 and L2 English-Spanish bilingual grammars: the Spain-Gibraltar connection
Tamara Gómez Carrero1, Raquel Fernández Fuertes1, Alejandro Martínez1, Juana M. Liceras2
1University of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab, 2University of Ottawa (Canada) & Universidad Nebrija (Spain)
15:30-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-17:30 – Session VI (chair: Jason Rothman)
16:00-16:30
Gender in the Spanish/English Determiner Phrase: A new approach and a DM analysis
Rodrigo Delgado
University of Illinois at Chicago
16:30-17:30 – Invited speaker
Switching on and off Spanish grammatical gender in bilingual scenarios
M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Leiden University
19:00 – Workshop dinner (Fiskekompaniet)
