Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
08:45 - 09:15 | Registration - Registration | |
09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome (Agora) | |
09:30 - 10:30 | Plenary: Timing in Child Language Acquisition (Agora) - Petra Schultz | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:30 | Parallel session 1 - Agora (day1) (Agora) | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Resumption in matrix wh-questions - Elaine Grolla, Universidade de São Paulo - Kazuko Yatsushiro, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] - Andreea Nicolae, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › The comprehension of sluicing by Italian-acquiring children - Elena Pettenon, University of Padova, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) - Emanuela Sanfelici, University of Padova, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) - Victoria Mateu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Spanish and Portuguese | |
12:00 - 12:30 | › Do infinitival structures contribute to syntactic complexity in child narratives? - Joana Batalha, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - FCSH / CLUNL - Aida Cardoso, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - FCSH / CLUNL - Maria Lobo, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - FCSH / CLUNL | |
11:00 - 12:30 | Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day1) (Gonzague) | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › On the acquisition of scalar and additive presuppositions: evidence from Italian persino ‘even' and neppure ‘not even' - Letizia Raminelli, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Revisiting the difficulty with subject-dake ‘only' in Japanese: The impact of visual information on children's comprehension - Akari Ohba, Meiji Gakuin University, JSPS PD | |
12:00 - 12:30 | › The interpretation of restrictive focus in child Cantonese - Margaret Lei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong] | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel session 2 - Agora (day1) (Agora) | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Extending the Growing Trees Hypothesis: The role of structural complexity and featural intervention in older children's syntactic development - Tommaso Sgrizzi, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - Giacomo Presotto, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main - Jacopo Torregrossa, Goethe-University Frankfurt | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Genuine Relatives vs. Clefts in L1 French: Revisiting the Factor of Depth of Embedding - Tess Wensink, KULeuven | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Using a Truth Value Judgment Task as a Screening Tool for Syntactic Comprehension - Camille BATAILLON, UMR1253 iBrain, Université de Tours, INSERM, Tours, France | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day1) (Gonzague) | (+) |
14:00 - 14:30 | › Differential object marking use in heritage Romanian in contact with Dutch: Does linguistic contact accelerate language change? - Bianca-Elena Babei-Popa, University of Bucharest | |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Long-distance dependencies in heritage Romanian: Comparing child and adult heritage speakers - Anamaria Bentea, University of Konstanz - Theodoros Marinis, University of Konstanz | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Null and overt subjects in child heritage Romanian in contact with Italian and Dutch - Bianca-Elena Babei-Popa, University of Bucharest | |
15:30 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
15:30 - 16:30 | Poster session (day1) | (+) |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Tonal alternations in child Mandarin: A view from a morpheme-specific tone sandhi rule - Yuxin Lin, Tsinghua University - Peng Zhou, Zhejiang University | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Number mismatches in the processing of object relative clauses: Does featural Relativized Minimality operate in L2? - Vera Yunxiao Xia, University of Alberta - Lydia White, McGill University | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Role of working memory in preschool children's production of relative clauses - Xiaoxuan Zhu, Tsinghua University - Peng Zhou, Zhejiang University | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › The sounds of silence: further European Portuguese data on the (a)typical nature of the initial consonant omission process - Mariana Castro, University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Influence of the prosodic structure on phonological productions in French children with autism - Margot Jannot, UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, INSERM - Emilie Marty, UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, INSERM - Sandrine Ferré, UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, INSERM | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › L2 Acquisition of prosodic cues for disambiguating wh-words in Korean: Evidence from French-speaking learners - JIYOUNG CHOI, CRLAO - UMR 8563 - Boram LEE, LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018 | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › LITMUS-SR-B: A sentence repetition task in Basque to identify Basque-Spanish bilinguals with DLD - Ainhoa Leyaristi, Universidad del País Vasco [España] / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espainia] = University of the Basque Country [Spain] = Université du pays basque [Espagne] | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Japanese children exhibit wide scope of disjunction under negation: The role of plausible dissent - Tetsuya Sano, Meiji Gakuin University, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] - Akari Ohba, Meiji Gakuin University, JSPS PD | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Children's Acquisition of Negation and Adjective Scales - Sophie Moracchini, Nantes Université - Oana Lungu, Nantes Université | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › Eye-Tracking Insights into Children's Processing of Copular Structures - Veronica D'Alesio, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - Anna Teresa Porrini, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - Tommaso Sgrizzi, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori | |
15:30 - 16:30 | › A Picture Selection Task for the Acquisition of Japanese Disjunction - Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu, University of Connecticut | |
16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel session 3 - Agora (day1) (Agora) | (+) |
16:30 - 17:00 | › L2 acquisition of English negated disjunction and reconstruction effects - Mayuko Yusa, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa], Hirosaki Gakuin University | |
17:00 - 17:30 | › Microvariation in L2 Acquisition: The Acquisition of Spanish Copulas by Portuguese Learners - Silvia Perpiñán, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] | |
17:30 - 18:00 | › Negative Concord and Double Negation in L2 acquisition of Mandarin and Spanish - Jin Yan, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Anna Gavarró, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Elena Pagliarini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |
16:30 - 18:00 | Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day1) (Gonzague) | (+) |
16:30 - 17:00 | › Evaluating the Tolerance Principle: Overgeneralization of ablaut preterit inflection in Swedish-speaking children aged six to ten - Therese Landh, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala] | |
17:00 - 17:30 | › Morphological Productivity in the Acquisition of Plural Inflection in European Portuguese - Joana Miguel, CAIDI - Centro de Apoio e Intervenção no Desenvolvimento Infantil, Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Ana Castro, Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa | |
17:30 - 18:00 | › Sensitivity to grammatical gender assignment in German: Effects of age, formal cues and vocabulary - Tom Fritzsche, Universität Potsdam | |
18:00 - 19:00 | Reception - reception @Mame |
Friday, September 12, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Parallel session 1 - Agora (day2) (Agora) | (+) |
09:00 - 09:30 | › Predictivity of non-word repetition on grammatical development: a longitudinal study on agreement dependencies in Italian typical, bilingual and DLD children. - Moscati Vincenzo, University of Siena | |
09:30 - 10:00 | › Using LITMUS-SR and LITMUS-NWR as screening tools: A large-scale population study - Marta Manenti, UMR 1253 iBraiN, Université de Tours, INSERM, Tours, France | |
09:00 - 10:00 | Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day2) | (+) |
09:00 - 09:30 | › Transferring islandhood into L1? Locality constraints CLI effects in Chinese L2 learners of French - CATERINA DONATI, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle - Yimin Zhu, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle | |
09:30 - 10:00 | › Interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2 English - Keisuke Kume, Nagoya University | |
10:00 - 11:00 | Plenary - Improving the replicability of research on language acquisition (Agora) - Franck Ramus | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
11:30 - 13:00 | Parallel session 2 - Agora (day2) (Agora) | (+) |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Mandarin children interpret declarative but not interrogative disjunction as conjunction - Yixuan Yan, University of Connecticut | |
12:00 - 12:30 | › Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language - André Eliatamby, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science - Lyn Tieu, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | |
12:30 - 13:00 | › Clean, empty, dry, and flat: Do children interpret adjectives in control resultatives as strong telicity markers? - Merle Weicker, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main - Rebecca Willer, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main - Petra Schulz, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main | |
11:30 - 13:00 | Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day2) (Gonzague) | (+) |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Internal structure of French Obstruent-Liquid clusters: a production study “Hey look, that's a pincess! Yes, that's a rincess... Or is it a princess?” - Lucie Quellec, Nantes Université - Antoine COCHARD, Nantes Université, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen | |
12:00 - 12:30 | › On the delay between phonological and phonetic acquisition of a new contrast: evidence from a longitudinal study of French learners of Korean - Lee Boram, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018 | |
12:30 - 13:00 | › Stress assignment in Greek: Evidence from children and adults - Maria Soukalopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Vassiliki Apostolouda, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Anastasia Paspali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Anthi Revithiadou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 16:00 | Parallel session 3 - Agora (day2) (Agora) | (+) |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Narrative production and Internal State Terms in multilingual autistic and neurotypical children: The role of receptive vocabulary - Alexandra Perovic, University College, London | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Passives, Raising, and the Experiencer Externalization Hypothesis - William Snyder, University of Connecticut | |
15:30 - 16:00 | › Can syntactic processing distinguish linguistically gifted children? - Valquíria Luna, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro [Brasil] = Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] = Université catholique pontificale de Rio de Janeiro [Brésil] - Letícia Sicuro Corrêa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro [Brasil] = Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] = Université catholique pontificale de Rio de Janeiro [Brésil] | |
14:30 - 16:00 | Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day2) (Gonzague) | (+) |
14:30 - 15:00 | › Subject/object asymmetries in nonnative processing of European Portuguese clefts - Xinyi Li, Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa | |
15:00 - 15:30 | › Filler-gap Resolution in Cross-linguistic Wh-questions: L2 English and L1 Japanese - Chie Nakamura, Waseda University [Tokyo, Japan] - Suzanne Flynn, Massachusetts Institute of Technoilogy | |
15:30 - 16:00 | › A new perspective on crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition of V2 - Charlotte Englert, Universität Konstanz | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Poster session (day2) | (+) |
16:00 - 17:00 | › A cross-linguistic investigation of children's negative indefinite production - Cory Bill, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] - Imke Driemel, University of York - Kazuko Yatsushiro, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] - Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge [UK] - Uli Sauerland, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft [Berlin] | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › On the early phases of English foreign language learning: The role of lexical processing for the production of subject-verb agreement by German primary school students - Marie Schnieders, English Linguistics, Technical University of Braunschweig | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › The acquisition of wh-ex-situ and in-situ questions in Mandarin - Maria Teresa Guasti, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca - Sun Yangyu, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › The role of syntactic complexity and typological similarity in the ultimate attainment of Italian as a heritage and second language - Francesco Romano, Halmstad University | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › L2 acquisition of Grammatical Aspect in simple vs. complex sentences - Angeliek van Hout, University of Groningen | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › The syntax-pragmatic interface in bilectal acquisition - Emanuela Sanfelici, University of Padova, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) - Gabriele Ganau, University of Siena - Angelapia Massaro, University of Siena - Nicola D'Antuono, University of Padova - Jan Casalicchio, University of Siena - Cecilia Poletto, University of Padova | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › The influence of a sensorineural hearing impairment on the acquisition of verbal agreement inflection in German-speaking children - Berit Sander, University of Cologne - Martina Penke, University of Cologne | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › Let's Delay the Answer! A Novel Method for Eliciting Information Focus in Crosslinguistic Research - Tania Stortini, Università degli Studi di Urbino \'Carlo Bo\' | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › Inflection and NP-ellipsis in the acquisition of German: Some insights from a corpus study - Johannes Hein, University of Potsdam & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin | |
16:00 - 17:00 | › Do children use the same grammar for comprehension and production?: A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi - Pravaal Yadav, University of Connecticut | |
17:00 - 18:00 | Plenary - Understanding Language Impairment (Agora) - Laurie Tuller | |
18:00 - 18:30 | Business Meeting - Agora | |
18:30 - 22:30 | Conference Dinner - Amboise Castle |
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
09:00 - 10:30 | Parallel session 1 - Agora (day3) (Agora) | (+) |
09:00 - 09:30 | › Children's Understanding of Modal Force: Evidence from French - Oana Lungu, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR6310) - Anouk Dieuleveut, Département de linguistique, Université de Genève - Valentine Hacquard, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland - Ailís Cournane, Department of Linguistics, NYU | |
09:30 - 10:00 | › Dutch children's interpretation of ONLY in pre-subject and pre-object position - Angeliek van Hout, University of Groningen | |
10:00 - 10:30 | › Italian Sign Language (LIS) comprehension in school-aged Deaf LIS L1 Signers and Hearing LIS L2 Learners - Anastasia Parini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca | |
09:00 - 10:30 | Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day3) (Gonzague) | (+) |
09:00 - 09:30 | › “Quantum leaps” in grammar acquisition: Evidence from child Russian - Serge Minor, Uit The Arctic University of Norway - Natalia Mitrofanova, Uit The Arctic University of Norway | |
09:30 - 10:00 | › Unraveling development of Spanish locative copulas with event and object subjects: insights from Catalan-Spanish bilingual and monolingual children - Susana Marrón González, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] | |
10:00 - 10:30 | › Grammatical Aspect Processing in Spanish and Russian: Bidirectional Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition - Natalia Mitrofanova, Uit The Arctic University of Norway - Serge Minor, Uit The Arctic University of Norway - Silvia Perpiñán, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Parallel session 2 - Agora (day3) (Agora) | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › The Role of Animacy and Contrast in Overt Personal Pronoun Subjects in Child Romanian - Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest, Universität Wien = University of Vienna - Ekaterina Levina, Universität Wien = University of Vienna | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › Distributive or collective interpretations of definite plural subjects: Which one is more basic? - Chiara Saponaro, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day3) (Gonzague) | (+) |
11:00 - 11:30 | › Interactions between phonological and lexical processing in children with hearing loss - Bénédicte Grandon, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes - Esther Ruigendijk, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg & Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all” | |
11:30 - 12:00 | › The acquisition of nasal vowels in L2 French as a new phonological category - Hund Hund, Universität Konstanz - Svenja Krieger, Universität Konstanz - Tanja Kupisch, Lund University | |
12:00 - 13:00 | Plenary - Reflections on syntactic complexity, through the lens of adolescent language (Agora) - Cécile de Cat |