Feb. 13, 2025 - Feb. 14, 2025
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please register here: https://forms.gle/NFHLRLnQBgGVccuJ9
The CLT group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is pleased to announce the workshop ATOM (Adaptations to Multilingualism/Bilingualism), to be held in Barcelona, February 13-14, 2025. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from around the world who approach the topic of neurocognitive adaptations to bilingualism through different perspectives and disciplines. The focus is on the type of effects bilingualism/multilingualism confers to different domains of cognition (e.g., language, executive functions, attention, etc.).
Emphasis will be given to the factors that drive bilingual effects (e.g., degree or type of bilingual experience, degree of language switching, sociolinguistic aspects related to language use). Among these factors, it has been suggested that language proximity/distance stands out for its unclear role. We welcome contributions that address how language distance may affect bilingual adaptations and how this factor is to be measured from an empirical point of view.
Keynote speakers
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta (New York University)
Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus)
Maria Kambanaros (Cyprus University of Technology)
Sílvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Practical matters
You can register for the workshop through the following link: https://forms.gle/NFHLRLnQBgGVccuJ9. There is no registration fee. The extended registration deadline is January 14, after which registration will not be possible.
The workshop will take place in Aula 02 of Casa Convalescència-UAB (Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171, 08041 Barcelona).
Program
Thursday, February 13
[session chair: Evelina Leivada]
9.30-10.30 -- Grounds, evidence, and implications of a unified bilingual mind (Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta)
10.30-11.10 -- An Italian perspective on receptive vocabulary: monolingual vs. bilingual preschoolers across contexts (Elena Pagliarini, Alessia Vit, Eduardo Navarrete Sanchez)
11.10-11.40 -- Coffee break
[session chair: Masaya Yoshida]
11.40-12.20 -- Is the resolution of ambiguous pronouns influenced by code-switching? Insights from Italian-English bilinguals (Camilla Masullo, Beatrice Giustolisi)
12.20-13.00 -- Exploring the role of language proximity in language and domain-general control in multilinguals (Anna Meliksetian, Agata Wolna, Teresa Kulej, Zofia Wodniecka)
13.00-15.00 -- Lunch break
[session chair: Raquel Montero-Estebaranz]
15.00-15.40 -- Processing effects of code-switching (Marina Sokolova)
15.40-16.20 -- Linguistic development in unimodal and bimodal bilingual children: the role of distance in the morpho-syntactic richness of known languages (Martina Riva, Carlo Cecchetto, Beatrice Giustolisi)
16.20-16.50 -- Coffee break
[session chair: Elena Pagliarini]
16.50-17.30 -- Phonetic effects of inhibitory control in bilingual connected speech (Kyle Wolff, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura, Rachel Williams, Alexia Hernandez, Christian Ruiz, Bryan Jaquez, Iva Ivanova)
17.30-18.30 -- Investigating the development and grammar of bilectal speakers (Invited speaker: Kleanthes Grohmann)
20h -- Dinner at Pomarada (Passeig de Gràcia, 78 Principal)
Friday, February 14
[session chair: Camilla Masullo]
10.00-11.00 -- Unravelling disorders of communication and cognition in the context of heritage languages (Invited speaker: Maria Kambanaros)
11.00-11.40 -- Coffee break
[session chair: Natalia Moskvina]
11.40-12.20 -- Attach me if you can (Marina Sokolova, Ingrid Oyervides Gaytán)
12.20-13.00 -- CLI in possessive constructions of Norwegian-Italian bilinguals: production and judgment data (Marta Velnić)
13.00-15.00 -- Lunch break
[session chair: Shengyu Liao]
15.00-15.40 -- Young and older bilinguals’ use of multiple cues in word segmentation (Patricia Fuente-García, Julián Villegas, Irene de la Cruz-Pavía)
15.40-16.20 -- Syntax-discourse properties of clefts in non-native acquisition of EP: the role of input and L1 influence (Xinyi Li)
16.20-17.00 -- Coffee break
[session chair: Gemma Repiso-Piugdelliura]
17.00-18.00 -- How do bilingual children acquire optionality? Linguistic adaptations in Catalan-Spanish bilingualism (Invited speaker : Sílvia Perpiñán)
Important dates
Submission: November 23, 2024
Notification of acceptance: December 4, 2024
Registration (EXTENDED): January 14, 2025
Workshop: February 13-14, 2025
Organizing Committee
Lourdes Aguilar Cuevas
Marina Bolea Centelles
M. Teresa Espinal
Evelina Leivada
Elena Pagliarini
Gemma Repiso-Piugdelliura
Adriana Soto-Corominas
ATOM is funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación through the project PID2021-124399NA-I00 (project “Adaptations to Multilingualism and the Role of Linguistic Proximity”. PI: Evelina Leivada).
Submissions open: Oct. 17, 2024 - Nov. 23, 2024
Abstract review period: Nov. 24, 2024 - Dec. 3, 2024
Contact Email: [email protected]