Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition,
Processing and Use
PROGRAM
FRIDAY MARCH 20 (Room E-0101)
09:00 – 09:30
Registration and opening remarks
09:30 – 10:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Jason Rothman
Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Looking both ways: Examining bidirectional transfer in third language acquisition
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
Session 1
Chair: Björn Lundquist
11:00 - 11:30
The acquisition of anything by Catalan/Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual learners of English:
Evidence for the Typological Primacy Model of L3 acquisition
Eloi Puig-Mayenco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Heather Marsden (Univ. of York, UK)
11:30 - 12:00
Transfer from nowhere? The unknown factor in L3 learning
Christina Lindqvist (Uppsala University) & Ylva Falk (Stockholm University)
12:00 - 12:30
Investigating the role of cognitive abilities in L3 processing and use
Laura Sanchez (Stockholm University)
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Lunch break
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Antonio Fábregas
Maria del Pilar García Mayo (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
The acquisition of L3 English by Basque-Spanish learners: Looking back and moving forward
Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Yulia Rodina
15:30 - 16:00
Language switching: The role of linguistic relatedness and language status
Michela Mosca, Julia Festman & Harald Clahsen (University of Potsdam, Germany)
16:00 - 16:30
Syntactic transfer from French and Basque to L3 Spanish: the null-subject parameter
Hugues Lacroix (Université de Montréal, Canada)
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:45
Short break
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Roksolana Myhaylyk
Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton, UK / University of Iowa, USA)
The Scalpel Model of Third Language Acquisition
19:30 – late
Informal get-together
Place: Fagerlivegen 5A
SATURDAY MARCH 21 (Room E-0101)
09:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Jason Rothman
Stefanie Wulff (University of Florida, USA)
What corpus linguistics can contribute to multilingualism research
POSTER SESSION
Session 3
Chair: Merete Anderssen
11:30 – 12.00
On pronouns that drop (out of German)
Ylva Falk (Stockholm University, Sweden)
12:00 – 12.30
What accounts for phonetic performance in a third language? A correlational study
Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
12:30 – 13:00
Reflexive binding in Norwegian L2 and L3
Guro Busterud (NTNU, Norway)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
Session 4
Chair: Magdalena Wrembel
14:00 – 14:30
Sensitivity to word order errors in L3 processing: Evidence from self-paced reading and grammaticality
judgments
Ana Stutter Garcia & Claudia Felser (Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, Germany)
14:30 – 15:00
The role of language dominance in German-Turkish heritage speakers of L3 English
Anika Lloyd-Smith (University of Hamburg, Germany), Henrik Gyllstad (Lund University, Sweden) & Tanja
Kupisch (University of Konstanz, Germany)
15.00 – 15:30
Coffee break
Session 5
Chair: Ylva Falk
15:30 – 16:00
Patterns of cognate facilitation effect in trilingual speakers as an index of the structure of the trilingual
mental lexicon
Agnieszka Lijewska & Hanka Błaszkowska (Adam Mickewicz University, Poland)
16:00 – 16:30
Form-to-meaning mapping in multilingual speakers: A test of the predictions of the Revised Hierarchical
Model
Carla A. Pastorino Campos (University of Cambridge, UK)
16:30 – 16:45
Short break
16:45 – 17.45
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chair: Marit Westergaard
David Green (University College London, UK)
Trajectories to L3 proficiency
17:45 – 17:50
19:30 ----
Closing remarks
Conference dinner
Place: Kitchen & Table Tromsø at Clarion The Edge
Posters
• Csaba Szabo (The Open University) - Exploring the Mental Lexicon of the Multilingual: Testing vocabulary knowledge
and cognate recognition in the L2 and L3
• Emel Turker -Van der Heiden & Gözde Mercan (University of Oslo, MultiLing, Norway) - The Acquisition of L3/Ln
Morphosyntax in Norwegian Learners of Turkish
• Felipe Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Jason Rothman (University of Reading /
University of Tromsø) - Persistence of non-facilitative transfer in L3 development
• José Alemán Bañón (University of Reading), Jorge Alonso González (University of the Basque Country) and Jason
Rothman (University of Reading & UiT, the Arctic University of Norway) - Using event-related potentials to examine
transfer source at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
• Marit Westergaard (University of Tromsø, Roksolana Mykhaylyk (Harvard University), Natalia Mitrofanova (University of
Tromsø) and Yulia Rodina (University of Oslo) – Norwegian-Russian bilinguals learning English: The Linguistic
Proximity Model
• Veronique Scheirs (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) - The acquisition of Path in L4 German and the effect of
previous languages (alternate)