First Cambridge-Paris Workshop on
MULTIMODAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
26-28 November 2009, RCEAL, Cambridge UK
The workshop will be held on the ground floor (rooms GR05, GR06 and GR07) of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics
9 West Road, Cambridge, UK (Faculty of English).
Maps and other information concerning the event venue can be found here
This workshop is funded by RCEAL, by the CNRS ISCC project SCHOLARWEB and by the ANR project COLAJE.
This workshop will assemble a large
community of researchers (especially young researchers) working on
child language acquisition in England and in France. These researchers share the
same objective (get a better understanding of language acquisition
through the study of longitudinal or large experimentally based cross
sectional corpora) from different points of view. The workshop will be a unique
occasion to reinforce the links between teams working on these issues in
France and in England.
Description * Workshop Programme
* Important
Dates * Workshop
Chairs
Workshop Description
The study of language acquisition is of paramount importance for linguistics,
psychology, cognitive science, communication, etc. Children produce forms that
look or sound like sketches of adult forms. Those productions cannot be
analyzed without special attention to gestures, gaze, mimics as well as the
context, the positioning of interlocutors in space, and the specificity of
discourse objects. The child language community shares tools and data through
the Internet (especially, the childes database) that can be used as a basis for
multimodal, multilingual and inter-disciplinary research.
Workshop Programme
The workshop will be organized over four half days, focusing on
different aspects of language acquisition.
- Thursday 26 November (afternoon, room GR06/07) — Corpus, coding and multimodality
- 2-3pm: Corpus, coding and metadata (Christophe Parisse, Modyco-Inserm, CNRS-U. Paris
Ouest Nanterre)
- 3-4pm: Pointing gesture and multimodality (Emmanuelle Mathiot, STL, UMR-CNRS 8163 and Univ. Lille 3; Aliyah Morgenstern, Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle; Marie Leroy, CNRS-MoDyCo and Univ. Paris-Descartes; Fanny Limousin, Univ. Paris 8)
- 4-4:30pm: Coffee break
- 4:30-5:30pm: Discussion
- Friday 27 November (morning, room GR05) — Child Language Argumentation
- 9:30-10:30am: Argumentation as a motive for syntax development: a case study of the
development of "parce que" in child language (Martine Sekali, Univ.
Paris Ouest Nanterre)
- 10:30-11am: Coffee break
- 11:00-12:00am: From repairs to self-repairs in adult-child interactions (Marie Leroy, Univ. Paris Descartes; Stéphanie Caet, Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle; Aliyah Morgenstern, Univ. Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- 12-12:30am: Discussion
- Friday 27 November (afternoon, room GR05) — Contrastive studies
- 2-3pm: Over-informative children: Production/comprehension asymmetry, or tolerance to pragmatic violations? (Cat Davies, Univ. of Cambridge)
- 3:4pm: Acquiring tense and aspect in Tamil (Dr. Lavanya
Sankaran, Univ. of London, Queen Mary)
- 4-4:30pm: Coffee break
- 4:30-5:30pm: Comparing processes in child L1 and child and adult L2 acquisition
(Henriette Hendriks and Helen Engemann, Univ. of Cambridge).
- Saturday 28 November (morning, room GR06/07) — Reformulations
- 10:11am: The acquisition and development of argumentative skills in children from 4-18:
mechanisms underlying deductive and probabilistic reasoning (Jodi Tommerdahl, University of
Birmingham)
- 11:12am: General discussion
Large periods of time will be devoted to discussion, with panelists introducing
comments after paper presentation.
Important Dates and Venue
The workshop is organised from 26 to 28 November 2009, at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, UK. Maps and other information concerning the event venue can be found here
Attendance to the workshop will be free and open to anybody who is interested by the subject.
Workshop Chairs
