UICM 5 – provisional program
Thursday, 24 September
Registration | 9.00am |
Opening of the conference | 9.45am |
TON DIJKSTRA (keynote lecture 1)
New trends in bilingualism: Extending BIA+ to sentence processing and word learning |
10.00am |
Coffee break | 11.30am |
Evy Woumans
Effect of second language acquisition on cognitive development in preschool children |
12am |
Haifa Alatawi
Bilingual children’s semantic-pragmatic comprehension of quantifiers |
12.30am |
LUNCH | 1.00pm |
ANTONELLA SORACE (keynote lecture 2)
Linguistic and cognitive effects of bilingualism on pronominal use |
2.00pm |
POSTER SESSION (with drinks):
Kyriakos Antoniou & Napoleon Katsos (Does bi-dialectalism confer an advantage on children’s executive control skills?) Sabrina Durante (The Role of Intonation in Irony Comprehension in French native speakers and Italian-French late bilinguals) Francesca Foppolo (Executive functions in monolinguals in the process of becoming bilinguals) Kirsten Van den Heuij, Ryanne Francot, Elma Blom & Leonie Cornips (Does dialect obstruct the acquisition of Dutch vocabulary by young children?) Isabelle Lorge (Exploring the communicative skills of bilinguals: A study of listener-directed speech features) Marie Philippart (The development of socio-pragmatic skills of young bilingual children) Alma Veenstra, Kyriakos Antoniou, Napoleon Katsos & Mikhail Kissine (Cognitive and linguistic development in bilinguals and bi-dialectals) |
3.30pm |
SUE FLETCHER-WATSON (keynote lecture 3)
Bilingualism in Autism: hindrance or help? |
4.30pm |
End Day 1 | 6.00pm |
Conference dinner | 7.30pm |
Friday, 25 September
Coffee | 9.30am |
NAPOLEON KATSOS (keynote lecture 4)
Pragmatics in the interfaces |
10.00am |
Coffee break | 11.30am |
Katarzyna Jankowiak
Bilingual metaphoric language comprehension: An ERP study |
12am |
Evelyn Bosma
Language balance and cognitive advantages in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children |
12.30am |
LUNCH | 1.00pm |
ISTVAN KECSKES (keynote lecture 5)
Indirect reporting in bilingual language processing |
2.00pm |
Tatyana Levari
Ambiguity resolution in online sentence comprehension in monolingual and bilingual children |
3.30pm |
Closing remarks | 4.00pm |
End of the conference | 4.30pm |
Sight-seeing walking tour | 5.00pm |