Conference on Multilingualism 2024

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Welcome desk

Welcome desk - no on-site registration

9:00 - 10:00 (1h)

Session 5 - Phonetics, phonology

Auditorium

› Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience - Olga Kepinska, University of Vienna [Vienna] 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Listening to a foreign friend in a noisy restaurant: Neural correlates of listening to nonnative-accented speech in multi-talker background noise - Janet Van Hell, Pennsylvania State University 09:20-09:40 (20min)

› Neural correlates of lexical alignment in native and non-native interactions - Alice Foucart, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija 09:40-10:00 (20min)

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Lobby

10:30 - 11:50 (1h20)

Session 6 - Cognitive processes

Auditorium

› Overlap in the Cerebral Processing of Language and Executive Control: Effects of Age, Sex, and Bilingualism - Oona Cromheecke, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Cerebral Networks of Bimodal Extreme Language Control - Functional Imaging of Sign-Oral Interpreting - Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Université de Genève = University of Geneva, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich - Idil Gemici, Yeditepe University 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› Working memory affects performance in L1 verbal fluency tasks more than L1 lexical abilities do: Evidence from middle-aged and older multilingual individuals. - Valantis Fyndanis, University of Oslo, Cyprus University of Technology 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› Closing Distances: How Aging Redefines Semantic Connections in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers - Miren Arantzeta, University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea 11:30-11:50 (20min)

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch on site &

Lobby

12:30 - 14:50 (2h20)

Poster session 2

Lobby

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

15:00 - 16:00 (1h)

Keynote

Auditorium

Rachel Bawden, ALMAnaCH INRIA

› Machine Translation and the Challenge of Cross-Lingual Ambiguity - Rachel Bawden, Automatic Language Modelling and Analysis & Computational Humanities 15:00-16:00 (1h)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Lobby

16:30 - 17:30 (1h)

Session 7 - Sociolinguistics

Auditorium

› Adult L2 learners' attitudes towards the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Flanders: a Q-study - Chloé Lybaert, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Teenagers' attitudes towards multilingual literacy and reading in the heritage language at school - Jasmijn Bosch, University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam 16:50-17:10 (20min)

› The use of morphologically unintegrated English-origin verbs in Montreal Hip Hop - Marie-Eve Bouchard, University of British Columbia 17:10-17:30 (20min)

Schedule