Coming up in February is the Interfaces of Bilingualism and SLI (Specific Language Impairment) workshop. The workshop will take place in Jerusalem, Israel between February 1st and 5th.
Workshop website:
http://www.as.huji.ac.il/workshops/isf/bilingualism/
Also upcoming this summer the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7) will take place at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The Symposium will be the 8-11 of July of 2009.
The International Symposium is a bi-annual conference which last took place in Hamburg in 2007. Keynote speakers for the Symposium will include Shyamala Chengappa from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing in Mysore, India; Guss Extra from the University of Tilburg, Netherlands; Pieter Muysken from Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Nuria Sebastien-Galles from the Universitat de Barcelona in Catalonia; Antonella Sorace from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and Sarah Thomason from the University of Michigan.
For more information, visit the website at http://cms.let.uu.nl/isb7/index.php
The UIC department of Spanish French Italian and Portuguese is hosting a Bilinguilism Forum in the spring. The call for abstracts went out earlier this month for the forum which is to be held on April 30th & May 1st at the Institute for the Humanities located in Stevenson Hall.
The Bilinguilism Forum will consist of three sections–Theoretical Bilingualism, Heritage Learner/Sociolingusitic Study, and Second Language Acquisition–with keynote speakers as yet to be officially announced. The deadline for abstract submission is January 31st.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Erin O’Rourke will be giving a workshop on Praat on December 2nd at 10am in the Bilingualism Research Lab (1700 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan St., Chicago). If you are unfamiliar with Praat, on its website http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Sidney Wood describes it in the following manner:
All are welcome to participate in the workshop and are encouraged to download Pratt on their laptop beforehand.
On the 11th and 12th of December the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong will be hosting the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. This conference on childhood bilingualism is organized by the newly established Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong & Co-sponsored by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/baec/
Of particular interest at the BAEC is a workshop on Sign Bilingualism in the Asia-Pacific Region. The workshop itinerary can be viewed at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/baec/signlang.html
On December 1st Patrick Wong from Northwestern University will give a talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk is entitled “Effects of Long- and Short-Term Auditory Experiences on the Auditory Pathway: Speech, Voice, and Music”.
The talk will take place at 2pm in 1700 University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street in Chicago.
The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Talks in Linguistics is proud to be hosting Anastasia Giannakidou from the University of Chicago. Tomorrow she’ll be presenting a talk entitled “Negative polarity in natural language: Variation, scalarity, and dependent reference.” The talk will take place in the Language Oasis in Grant Hall on UIC campus at 2pm.
For further information visit our UIC TiL homepage:
The Bilingualism Research Lab, BRL, was founded this summer here at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Professors Luis Lopez Carretero and Kay Gonzalez Vilbazo. Current student members of the lab are doctoral students Brad Hoot, Shane Ebert, and Laura Bartlett. Current masters students who are part of the lab are Mirta Lee, Sarah Downey-Gimenez, and Jeanne Heil.
The BRL works in theoretical bilingual research, with a particular interest in code-switching phenomena.
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