GALA 2025: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

11-13 Sep 2025 Tours (France)

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

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›8:45 (30min)

Registration

8:45 - 9:15 (30min)

Registration

›9:15 (15min)

Welcome

› Agora

9:15 - 9:30 (15min)

Welcome

Agora

›9:30 (1h)

Plenary: Timing in Child Language Acquisition
Petra Schultz

› Agora

9:30 - 10:30 (1h)

Plenary: Timing in Child Language Acquisition

Agora

Petra Schultz

›10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

›11:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 1 - Agora (day1)

› Agora

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 1 - Agora (day1)

Agora

› 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] 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› 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 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› 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 12:00-12:30 (30min)

›11:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day1)

› Gonzague

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day1)

Gonzague

› 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 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› 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 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› The interpretation of restrictive focus in child Cantonese - Margaret Lei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong] 12:00-12:30 (30min)

›12:30 (1h30)

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

›14:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 2 - Agora (day1)

› Agora

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 2 - Agora (day1)

Agora

› 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 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Genuine Relatives vs. Clefts in L1 French: Revisiting the Factor of Depth of Embedding - Tess Wensink, KULeuven 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Using a Truth Value Judgment Task as a Screening Tool for Syntactic Comprehension - Camille BATAILLON, UMR1253 iBrain, Université de Tours, INSERM, Tours, France 15:00-15:30 (30min)

›14:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day1)

› Gonzague

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day1)

Gonzague

› Differential object marking use in heritage Romanian in contact with Dutch: Does linguistic contact accelerate language change? - Bianca-Elena Babei-Popa, University of Bucharest 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Long-distance dependencies in heritage Romanian: Comparing child and adult heritage speakers - Anamaria Bentea, University of Konstanz - Theodoros Marinis, University of Konstanz 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Null and overt subjects in child heritage Romanian in contact with Italian and Dutch - Bianca-Elena Babei-Popa, University of Bucharest 15:00-15:30 (30min)

›15:30 (1h)

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30 (1h)

Coffee break

›15:30 (1h)

Poster session (day1)

15:30 - 16:30 (1h)

Poster session (day1)

› 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 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› Role of working memory in preschool children's production of relative clauses - Xiaoxuan Zhu, Tsinghua University - Peng Zhou, Zhejiang University 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› Children's Acquisition of Negation and Adjective Scales - Sophie Moracchini, Nantes Université - Oana Lungu, Nantes Université 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› 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 (1h)

› A Picture Selection Task for the Acquisition of Japanese Disjunction - Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu, University of Connecticut 15:30-16:30 (1h)

›16:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 3 - Agora (day1)

› Agora

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 3 - Agora (day1)

Agora

› L2 acquisition of English negated disjunction and reconstruction effects - Mayuko Yusa, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa], Hirosaki Gakuin University 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Microvariation in L2 Acquisition: The Acquisition of Spanish Copulas by Portuguese Learners - Silvia Perpiñán, Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona] 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› 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 17:30-18:00 (30min)

›16:30 (1h30)

Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day1)

› Gonzague

16:30 - 18:00 (1h30)

Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day1)

Gonzague

› Evaluating the Tolerance Principle: Overgeneralization of ablaut preterit inflection in Swedish-speaking children aged six to ten - Therese Landh, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala] 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› 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 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Sensitivity to grammatical gender assignment in German: Effects of age, formal cues and vocabulary - Tom Fritzsche, Universität Potsdam 17:30-18:00 (30min)

›18:00 (1h)

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18:00 - 19:00 (1h)

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