First MC & WGs Meeting:
Location: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Date: 16-18 November 2009
Program
1st day of Meeting: Monday, November 16th, 2009
9:00-9:30
WG1
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:15
10:15-10:45
10:45-11:15
WG1
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15
12:15-12:45
12:45-13:00
13:00-15:00
WG1
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40
15:40-16:00
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:40
16:40-17:10
WG1
17:10-17:25
17:25-17:45
17:45-18:30
19:30
Coffee & Welcome
Focus on Bilingual SLI
Introduction: overview of the day and goals
Jan de Jong, Antje Orgassa, Anne Baker & Fred Weerman:
Why is verb inflection vulnerable in SLI? Evidence from bilingual children
Jan de Jong, Antje Orgassa, Anne Baker & Fred Weerman:
Why is verb inflection vulnerable in SLI? Evidence from bilingual children
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Focus on Bilingual SLI cont.
Sharon Armon-Lotem: Syntactic and morpho-syntactic abilities of English-Hebrew and Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with SLI
Ianthi Tsimpli & Maria Mastropavlou: Grammatical skills in biSLI: Gender and Clitics in Greek
Seyhun Topbas & Selcuk Guven: TײDIL Project. Assessment of SLI in monolingual and bilingual preschool and elementary school children (2;0-9;0) speaking Turkish as their native language; adaptation of TELD-3 to Turkish: Pilot sampling study
Interim Summary: Bilingual SLI
LUNCH
Focus on Monolingual SLI
Martin Haiden, Laurie Tuller, Philippe Prיvost and Maureen Scheidnes:
SLI in French: What’s complex and why?
Cornelia Hamann: French SLI in young children (3-6)
Naama Friedmann: Wh movement and binding in comprehension and production in monolingual Hebrew SLI
Petra Schulz: Semantic abilities in monolingual German SLI
Napoleon Katsos: The acquisition of quantification: insights from SLI and cross-linguistic research
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Focus on theoretical perspectives and discussion
Interim Summary: Monolingual SLI
Kleanthes Grohmann: Interfaces and architecture: theoretical perspectives on research in language disorders
WG1 - General Discussion
Steering group meeting
2nd day of Meeting: Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
9:00-10:00
WG4
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:00
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:00
13:00-15:00
WG3
15:00-15:05
15:05-15:20
15:20-15:35
15:35-15:45
15:45-15:55
15:55-16:10
16:10-16:25
16:25-17:00
17:00-17:15
WG3
17:15-17:20
17:20-17:35
17:35-17:50
17:50-18:05
18:05-18:30
Invited Speaker – Dr. Mariette Huizinga
Profiling Executive Functions in normal and disordered groups
Presentations
Aude Laloi (UvA, Amsterdam): Studying Executive Function and Language Behaviour in bilingual TD and SLI children learning French
Peri Iluz Cohen (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Language Proficiency, Language Control and Executive Control in Bilingual Children
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Bence Kas (Hungary): Executive functions in Hungarian children with SLI
WG4 - General Discussion
LUNCH
Presentations - Phonological processing
Introduction to phonology studies
Handan Kopkalli Yavuz: Phonological processes in the formation of Turkish words
Sharon Armon-Lotem & Shula Chiat: A Russian-Hebrew NWR task tested with bilinguals with TDL and SLI - rational and findings
Maria Kambanaros: Toddler's phonological acquisition: Normative data from Standard Greek (SG), Cypriot-Greek (CG) and bilingual Albanian (L1)-Greek (L2)
Eva-Kristina Salameh: Assessing phonologies in bilingual Swedish-Arabic children with language impairment
Sandrine Ferre: Studying French complex clusters in spontaneous language in atypical development: SLI and a L2 case
Helen Grech & Barbara Dodd: Phonological language acquisition in Malta: a bilingual language learning context
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WG3: Discussion on phonological issues
Presentations - Lexical processing
introduction to lexicon studies
Maria Kambanaros: Patterns of Object and Action Naming in Cypriot Greek Children with SLI/WFDs
Eva-Kristina Salameh: Learning in two languages. Consequences for lexical development in Swedish and Arabic
Eva-Kristina Salameh: Learning in two languages. Consequences for lexical development in Swedish and Arabic
Discussion on lexical issues & general discussion
DINNER
3rd day of Meeting: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
9:00-09:30
WG2
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:00
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00
13:00-14:30
14:30-16:30
Coffee
Presentations
Five minute presentations by WG2 members and roundtable statements from WG2 members on Theoretical/Conceptual/Methodological approaches
Research questions/hypotheses transcription/coding approaches (CLAN, SALT)
Ilknur Mavis (TK): Use of Frog Story narration in Turkish clinical groups with SALT analysis
Elena Florit (IT): Comprehension and production of Italian as second language in Romanian and Nigerian preschool children.
Peri Iluz-Cohen, Sharon Armon-Lotem & Joel Walters (IL):
Codeswitching data from a bilingual retelling task in Hebrew-English children with TDL and SLI
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Kate Cain (UK): Narrative assessment: comprehension and production
Target tasks
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narratives in response to familiar/unfamiliar with and without picture stimuli
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bilingual retelling task to L1, L2, and bilingual listeners
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interactive discourse task based on a controlled improvisation procedure
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autobiographical/identity narratives
Discussion
LUNCH
MC Meeting & General Discussion