Conference on Multilingualism 2024

8:00 - 8:45 (45min)

Welcome desk

Welcome desk (no on-site registration)

8:45 - 9:00 (15min)

Welcome to the conference!

Auditorium

Cheryl Frenck-Mestre

9:00 - 10:00 (1h)

KEYNOTE: Artificial Intelligence in Education. Challenges and Opportunities for (Language) Learning & Teaching.

Auditorium

Prof. dr. Piet Desmet

https://multilingualism-2024.sciencesconf.org/data/program/COM2024_keynoteDesmet.pdf

10:00 - 11:00 (1h)

Session 1 - Acquisition

Auditorium

› “Each language opens a whole new world”: Parents' views on multilingualism in early childhood - Sandra El Hadi, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 10:00-10:20 (20min)

› Phonological influences in early bilingual lexical development: A cross-linguistic questionnaire study on cognate knowledge in bilingual toddlers - Katrin Skoruppa, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut des sciences logopédiques 10:20-10:40 (20min)

› Multilingual effects on co-speech gesture comprehension in school-aged children - Pauline Wolfer, Autism, Bilingualism, Cognitive and Communicative Development (ABCCD) Research Group, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg (CH) 10:40-11:00 (20min)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Lobby

11:30 - 12:30 (1h)

Session 2 - Education

Auditorium

› Exploring Disfluency Patterns in Bilingual and Monolingual Children with and without Autism: A Pragmatic Perspective - Marianna Beradze, The Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Natalia Meir, The Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, The Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› Can children in 4th grade learn novel English word pronunciation using a color-code? - Tiphaine Caudrelier, Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - Institut de Psychologie 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› Recognition memory for L1 and L2 words in bilinguals - Kristin Lemhöfer, Radboud University Nijmegen 12:10-12:30 (20min)

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch on site &

Lobby

12:30 - 14:50 (2h20)

Poster session 1

The list of posters is in the PDF program (forthcoming).

15:00 - 16:00 (1h)

Session 3 - Heritage speakers

Auditorium

› Subject and object wh-question comprehension among Farsi-speaking adults, monolingual children, and heritage child speakers of Farsi - Tina Ghaemi, University of Dortmund 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› Priming motion event constructions within and across languages in heritage speakers of Italian living in Germany - Ioli Baroncini, University of Mannheim 15:20-15:40 (20min)

› Examining Accentedness in Russian Heritage Speakers: The Influence of Bilingualism Onset Age - Irina Rubinstein, Bar-Ilan University [Israël] 15:40-16:00 (20min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Lobby

16:30 - 17:50 (1h20)

Session 4 - Lexicon

Auditorium

› The Multilingual Brain on Numbers: Examining the Integration Between Digits, Number Words and Non-symbolic Numbers in German-French Bilingual Adults Using Frequency-Tagged Electroencephalography - Mila Marinova, University of Luxembourg [Luxembourg] 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Impact of Lexical Tone Similarity on Mandarin Word Processing in French Learners - Yen-Lin PAN, Laboratoire Parole et Langage 16:50-17:10 (20min)

› The acquisition of motion events construal by German learners of L2 Italian: Do learners adapt to new lexicalization patterns and semantic constraints? - Anna Michelotti, University of Mannheim 17:10-17:30 (20min)

› Word learning interference in bilinguals: the influence of language proficiency. - Sara Ferman, Tel Aviv University 17:30-17:50 (20min)

18:00 - 20:00 (2h)

Cocktail

Lobby

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