Eighth MC & WGs Meeting:
Location: Lisbon (Portugal)
Date: 13–15 February 2013
Program
1st day of Meeting: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
8:00
Registration & Welcome
Parellel Sessions: WG1 and WG3
WG1: Introduction
8:30
WG 1 SR - Theo Marinis: Intro
Guillemette Henry and Selma Saad: Typical versus atypical development of Lebanese Arabic in bilingual children : a pilot study of a sentence repetition task
Topbas, S., Aydin, A., Kazanoglu, D. & Ozkan-Tadihan, E.: Turkish Sentence Repetition Test: Pilot sampling with children with SLI and controls
Fernanda Pratas, João Costa and Maria Lobo: Results from Capeverdean-Portuguese bilingual and Portuguese monolingual TD children
Ianthi Tsimpli, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Vicky Chondrogianni: Pilot data from the short Greek SR task with monolingual and bilingual children
Enkeleida Kapia, Anila Kananaj: Further findings from Sentence Repetition task with Albanian monolinguals and Albanian-speaking bilinguals
WG3: Lexical
8:30
Magdalena Łuniewska et al.: AoA results for 15 languages: new data & new analyses
Jasmina Vuksanovic, Jovana Bjekic: Current issues and perspectives in application of Serbian version of CLT in TD monolingual, TD bilingual and SLI children
Jasmina Vuksanovic, Marko Zivanovic: Sensitivity of Serbian version of CLT to SES
Katarzyna Chyl, Magdalena Łuniewska, Ewa Haman: Comparison of noun and verb knowledge in monolingual and bilingual 5 year old children acquiring Polish as L1
Hanne Gram Simonsen, Pernille Hansen, Magdalena Łuniewska, Ewa Haman: Assessing vocabulary with CLT in Polish-Norwegian children
Ozlem Unal, Muge Tuncer, Pinar Ege: Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task in Turkish-German Bilingual Children
Frenette Southwood; South African English CLT: Preliminary results from monolingual TD children and bilingual children with SLI
10:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:00
Discussion on further studies & publications
Discussion on final conference presentations
11:00
Discussion on further studies & publications
Discussion on final conference presentations
12:30
LUNCH
Parellel Sessions: WG1 and WG4
WG1: Case
13:30
WG: Case - Esther Ruigendijk: Intro Esther Ruigendijk: Pilot data on German
Bibi Janssen & Esther Ruigendijk: Case in Russian-Dutch bilingual children.
Enkeleida Kapia & Anila Kananaj: Developing Case Task For Albanian
Case: Discussion/Publications
WG4
13:30
Tuba Yarbay Duman , Seyhun Topbaş, Anne Baker: The processing of Turkish counterfactuals in SLI: the role of executive functions
İlknur Maviş, Ayşe Aydın: Assessing Executive Functions of Turkish Speaking Monolingual Children with SLI and Normal Language Development
Kristine Jensen de López, Hanne Søndergaard Knudsen, Line Engel Clasen: Assessment of executive functions of Scandinavian (Danish and Norwegian) in typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual children
Marko Zivanovic, Jasmina Vuksanovic and Jovana Bjekic: Differences in executive functions between Serbian TD monolingual, SLI monolingual and Serbian-Hungarian TD bilingual children
15:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00
Agreement:
WG1 Agreement - Jan de Jong: Intro
Dagmar Bittner: Agreement task
Relative clauses:
Peri Iluz-Cohen: Verbal and non-verbal sort-term memory and working memory in bilingual and monolingual children with TLD and with SLI
Maria Kambanaros: Lexical retrieval and cognitive control in multilinguals: Same or different from bilectals
Iris Duinmeijer & Bibi Jansen: Measuring inhibition and visuo-spatial working memory in Dutch children with SLI and typically developing peers using the VIMI Hand–Fist Game and a digitalized version of the odd-one-out
18:00
Assessment committee - how to address the clinical implications in publications
19:00
Reception
20:00
SG meeting
2nd day of Meeting: Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Parellel Sessions: WG1 and WG2
WG1
08:30
WG1 Exhaustivity - Petra Schulz: Intro
Frenette Southwood: Wh exhaustivitiy in Afrikaans-speaking children: Preliminary results with monolingual and bilingual TD children and children with SLI
Petra Schulz: Deficits in pairing as an indicator of SLI? Evidence from German monolingual and eL2-children
Sharon Armon-Lotem, Irena Shnaiderman & Petra Schulz: Exhaustivity in the L2 of Russian-Hebrew children
Exhaustivity: Discussion/Publications
WG2
08:30
Joel Walters & Natalia Gagarina
1. Introduction
2. Bilingual Narrative Assessment Tool – scripts, comprehension/ production scoring: finalization
Evaluation of comprehension questions: doubtful cases Valerie Rechardt and Natalia Gagarina
3. Presentation of general results: 16 languages
SpecificLanguages: results + scripts, comprehension/ production scoring
Afrikaans: Daleen Klop, Monique Visser & Helena Oosthuizen
Croatian: Gordana Hrzica & Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic
10:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:00
WG1 Online Experiments- Vicky Chondrogianni: Introduction
Jovana Bjekic, Vicky Chondrogianni and Jasmna Vuksanovic, On-line processing of case and word order alternations in Serbian-speaking L1-TD children.
11:00
Online Experiments: Discussion/Publications
Finnish:Sari Kunnari &Taina Välimaa: Preliminary results on 5-6-year-old monolingual children
French: Alfred Knapp & Martin Haiden
German:Antje Skerra, Valerie Reichardt, Katrin Reichenbach, Olga Vorobyeva & Natalia Gagarina: Linking of macro- and microstructureas a better cure for SLI
12:30
LUNCH
Parellel Sessions: WG1 and WG4
WG1: Clitics
13:30
WG1 Clitics - Philippe Prévost: Introduction
Maria Andreou, Eleni Peristeri, Ianthi Tsimpli, Katerina Kostantzou, Michaela Nerantzini, Spyridoula Varlokosta: Data from Modern Greek
Enkeleida Kapia: Data from Albanian
Clitics: Discussion/Publications
WG4:
13:30
Ágnes Lukács, Ferenc Kemény, Kata Fazekas and Enikő Ladányi: The effects of individual differences in EF on language abilities in SLI
Pascale Engel-Abreu (presented by Kristine): Exectuive functionning in children with bilingual SLI
Chilla Solveig & Cornelia Hamann (presented by Kristine):
Data on EF and langue from German children
Valerie Reichardt, Olga Vorobyeva & Natalia Gagarina: Piloting COST embedded mouse and odd-one-out tasks with 9 year-old Russian-German bilinguals.
15:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00
WG1: General Discussion about publications and Krakow presentations
16:00
Discussion of publication options and issues
17:00
MC Meeting
18:30
Guided Tour at Ancient Art National Museum
20:00
Dinner at Ancient Art National Museum
3rd day of Meeting: Friday, February 15st, 2013
Parellel Sessions: WG2 and WG3
WG2:
WG3: NWR
08:30
Greek: Eleni Peristeri, Maria Andreou & Ianthi Tsimpli: Macro- and microstructure properties in the narratives of Greek bisli children
Hebrew: Joel Walters
Italian: Maja Roch & Chiara Levorato
Swedish: Ute Bohnacker
08:30
Seyhun Topbaş and Dilber Kaçar Kütükçü: A comparative study: The implementation of a Turkish Nonword Repetition Test and Quasi-Universal Nonword Repetition Test with monolingual Turkish children with SLI
Maja Savić, Darinka Anđelković and Maša Popović: A cross-linguistic quasi-universal nonword repetition task: Evidence from Serbian typically developing children
Jasmina Vuksanovic, Jovana Bjekic and Marko Zivanovic: Application of two nonword repetition tasks in TD Bilingual Serbian-Hungarian children
Rikke Vang Christensen: Developing a Danish nonword repetition task
Eglė Krivickaitė and Ineta Dabašinskienė: Lithuanian nonword repetition test
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:30
Results and Final Discussion
11:30
Publications plan and outlook for Cracow and beyond
Discussion on publications
Discussion on final conference presentations
12:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:00
15:30
16:00
17:00
Inter-task Presentations
Angela Grimm, Magda Wojtecka, & Petra Schulz: Early second language learners’ abilities across linguistic subdomains and implications for the risk of misdiagnosis
Natalia Meir & Sharon Armon-Lotem: NWR and SR in sequential bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking preschool children with typical language development and SLI
COFFEE BREAK
WG 1-4 Presentations
Discussion
The End
18:00
Zofia Wodniecka: Does cognitive control predict language development?