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), Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› The comprehension of sluicing by Italian-acquiring children - Elena Pettenon (University of Padova), Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Padova), Victoria Mateu (University of California) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Do infinitival structures contribute to syntactic complexity in child narratives? - Joana Batalha (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Aida Cardoso (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Maria Lobo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) 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 (University of Milano-Bicocca) Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (University of Nantes), Desiré Carioti (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) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› The interpretation of restrictive focus in child Cantonese - Margaret Lei (Chinese University of 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 am Main) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

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

› Using a Truth Value Judgment Task as a Screening Tool for Syntactic Comprehension - Camille Bataillon (iBraiN), Laurie Tuller (iBraiN), Armelle Foucart (iBraiN), Philippe Prévost (iBraiN) 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), Irina Stoica (University of Bucharest), Larisa Avram (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), Maria João Freitas (University of Coimbra), Ana Margarida Ramalho (University of Lisbon) 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› The syntax-pragmatic interface in bilectal acquisition - Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Padova), Elena Marcati (University of Padova), 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) 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› L2 Acquisition of prosodic cues for disambiguating wh-words in Korean: Evidence from French-speaking learners - Jiyoung Choi (CRLAO), Boram Lee (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› LITMUS-SR-B: A sentence repetition task in Basque to identify Basque-Spanish bilinguals with DLD - Ainhoa Leyarist (University of the Basque Country) 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› Japanese children exhibit wide scope of disjunction under negation: The role of plausible dissent - Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University), Akari Ohba (University of Hawai'i), Mayuko Yusa (EHESS - CESPRA), Kamil Deen (University of Hawai'i) 15:30-16:30 (1h)

› Children's Acquisition of Negation and Adjective Scales - Sophie Moracchini (Nantes Université), Oana Lungu (Nantes Université), Hamida Demirdache (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), Andrea Moro (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), Anna Teresa Porrini (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), Tommaso Sgrizzi (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), Matteo Greco (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), Bonnie D. Schwartz (University of Hawai'i) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Microvariation in L2 Acquisition: The Acquisition of Spanish Copulas by Portuguese Learners - Silvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Ana Espírito Santo (University of Lisbon), Rafael Marín (University of Lille) 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) 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Morphological Productivity in the Acquisition of Plural Inflection in European Portuguese - Joana Miguel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ana Castro (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), Annie Walter (Universität Potsdam), Barbara Höhle (Universität Potsdam) 17:30-18:00 (30min)

›18:00 (1h)

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18:00 - 19:00 (1h)

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