Theme 3 in AcqVA Aurora is organizing a two day workshop exploring and discussing how multilectal knowledge organized in the mental grammar of the language user. As invited speakers the workshop features Alissa Melinger (University of Dundee) and Natalia Kartushina (University of Oslo). After the workshop Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg) will give this semester's first AcqVA Aurora Guest lecture.
Thursday 9th of February
Rom 344, The University Library
https://uit.zoom.us/j/63013895453
10.45–11.00
Opening by Terje Lohndal (NTNU/UiT) & Øystein A. Vangsnes (UiT/HVL)
11.00–12.00
Alissa Melinger (University of Dundee)
Speaking in Dialects: How dialect words are represented and selected for production
12.00–12.30
Maki Kubota (UiT) & Jade Sandstedt (UiT/HiVolda) et al.
The role of grammatical alignment, engagement, and exposure in cross-dialectal influence on bilectal processing
12.30–13.00
Andrew Weir (NTNU)
Aux-contraction and deletion in English dialects and registers: an interface account of variability
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–14.30
Tekabe Legesse Feleke (UiT)
The role of differential crosslinguistic influence and other constriants in L2 predictive gender processing
14.30–15.00
Ragnhild Eik (NTNU)
Feminine gender: elicited production vs. self-reporting
15.00–15.30 Break
15.30–17.00
Presentations from the Multilectal Literacy in Education (MultiLit) project
Anya Vinichenko (UiT) et al.
- Spotting the lect: a study of trilectally literate adolescents in Norway
Maud Westendorp (UiT) & Göran Söderlund (HVL)
- Managing lexical co-activation in closely related varieties of Norwegian
Björn Lundquist (UiT)
- Language separation or speaker separation?
17.00–18.00 Roundtable discussion with drinks and snacks
19.30- Dinner at Nordis (registration required)
Friday 10th of February
Rom 244, The University Library
https://uit.zoom.us/j/63013895453
0900–1000
Natalia Kartushina (University of Oslo)
Coping with Norwegian dialects: Language Development in infants and toddlers growing up in multi-dialectal environments
1000–1030
Bror-Magnus S. Strand (UiT)
The Norwegian role play register and child bilectalism
1030–1100
Elma Blom (UiT/Utrecht University)
Understanding variation in bilingual children’s use of inflection: age, working memory, regularity and cross-linguistic distance
1100–1130 Break
1130–1230 Roundtable discussion
1230–1330 Lunch
AcqVA Aurora Guest lecture
Auditorium E0.101
https://uit.zoom.us/j/61799105009
1430–1600
Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg)
Not all social constructions are evil. A cognitive-linguistic attempt to save multilinguals’ languages from de(con)struction
Affiliation acronyms:
UiT = UiT The Arctic University of Norway
NTNU = The Norwegian University of Technology and Science
HVL = Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
HiVolda = Volda University College