GALA 2025: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

11-13 Sep 2025 Tours (France)

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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00	Registration 8:45 - 9:15 (30min) Registration Registration Welcome 9:15 - 9:30 (15min) Welcome Agora Plenary: Timing in Child Language Acquisition 9:30 - 10:30 (1h) Plenary: Timing in Child Language Acquisition Agora Petra Schultz Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Parallel session 1 - Agora (day1) Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day1) 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 - 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) Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 (1h30) Lunch Parallel session 2 - Agora (day1) Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day1) 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 - 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) Coffee break Poster session (day1) 15:30 - 16:30 (1h) Coffee break 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) Parallel session 3 - Agora (day1) Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day1) 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 - 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) Reception 18:00 - 19:00 (1h) Reception reception @Mame	Parallel session 1 - Agora (day2) Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day2) 9:00 - 10:00 (1h) Parallel session 1 - Agora (day2) Agora › 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), Giuditta Smith (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Benedetta Bianchi Janetti (Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano), Camilla Piccioli (University of Siena) 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Using LITMUS-SR and LITMUS-NWR as screening tools: A large-scale population study - Marta Manenti (iBraiN), Carole El Akiki (iBraiN), Sandrine Ferré (iBraiN), Lucie Macchi (University of Lille), Philippe Prévost (iBraiN), Christophe dos Santos (University of Lyon 2), Zinaïda Tamiatto (iBraiN), Laurie Tuller (iBraiN), Racha Zebib (iBraiN) 09:30-10:00 (30min) 9:00 - 10:00 (1h) Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day2) › Transferring islandhood into L1? Locality constraints CLI effects in Chinese L2 learners of French - Caterina Donati (Paris Cité University), Yimin Zhu (Paris Cité University) 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Interpretation of definite and demonstrative descriptions in L2 English - Keisuke Kume (Nagoya University) 09:30-10:00 (30min) Plenary - Improving the replicability of research on language acquisition 10:00 - 11:00 (1h) Plenary - Improving the replicability of research on language acquisition Agora Franck Ramus Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30 (30min) Coffee break Parallel session 2 - Agora (day2) Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day2) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Parallel session 2 - Agora (day2) Agora › Mandarin children interpret declarative but not interrogative disjunction as conjunction - Yixuan Yan (University of Connecticut), Yitong Luo (Yale University) 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language - André Eliatamby (Rutgers University), Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) 12:00-12:30 (30min) › 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) 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day2) Gonzague › Interactions between phonological and lexical processing in children with hearing loss - Bénédicte Grandon (University of Nantes), Esther Ruigendijk (Universität Oldenburg) 11:30-12:00 (30min) › On the delay between phonological and phonetic acquisition of a new contrast: evidence from a longitudinal study of French learners of Korean - Lee Boram (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) 12:00-12:30 (30min) › 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) 12:30-13:00 (30min) Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 (1h30) Lunch Parallel session 3 - Agora (day2) Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day2) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Parallel session 3 - Agora (day2) Agora › Narrative production and Internal State Terms in multilingual autistic and neurotypical children: The role of receptive vocabulary - Alexandra Perovic (University College, London), Kaya Forcellini (University College, London), Phoebe Cousins (University College, London), Carmit Altman (Bar-Ilan Univeristy) 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Passives, Raising, and the Experiencer Externalization Hypothesis - William Snyder (University of Connecticut), Sahil Luthra (Stony Brook University), Nabin Koirala (University of Connecticut), Roeland Hancock (Yale University) 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Can syntactic processing distinguish linguistically gifted children? - Valquíria Luna (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Letícia Sicuro Corrêa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Parallel session 3 - Gonzague (day2) Gonzague › Subject/object asymmetries in nonnative processing of European Portuguese clefts - Xinyi Li (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Joana Teixeira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Maria Lobo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Filler-gap Resolution in Cross-linguistic Wh-questions: L2 English and L1 Japanese - Chie Nakamura (Waseda University), Suzanne Flynn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yoichi Miyamoto (Osaka University), Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University) 15:00-15:30 (30min) › A new perspective on crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition of V2 - Charlotte Englert (Universität Konstanz), Marc Meiserahl (Universität Konstanz), Marit Westergaard (Uit The Arctic University of Norway), Tanja Kupisch (Lund University) 15:30-16:00 (30min) Coffee break Poster session (day2) 16:00 - 17:00 (1h) Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 (1h) Poster session (day2) › 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), Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › 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 (Technical University of Braunschweig), Katie Von Holzen (Technical University of Braunschweig), Holger Hopp (Technical University of Braunschweig) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › The acquisition of wh-ex-situ and in-situ questions in Mandarin - Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca), Sun Yangyu (University of Milano-Bicocca), Zhao Lucy (University of Cambridge), Hu Shenai (Xiamen University), Jie Xiao (Xiamen University) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › The role of syntactic complexity and typological similarity in the ultimate attainment of Italian as a heritage and second language - Francesco Romano (Halmstad University), Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (University of the Balearic Islands), Marta Rivera Zurita (University of the Balearic Islands), Andrea Calpe Alvarez (University of the Balearic Islands) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › Influence of the prosodic structure on phonological productions in French children with autism - Margot Jannot (iBraiN), Anne-Aël Pillet (iBraiN), Emilie Marty (iBraiN), Sandrine Ferré (iBraiN) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › L2 acquisition of Grammatical Aspect in simple vs. complex sentences - Luigi Palumbo (University of Greenwich & University of Groningen), Maria J. Arche (University of Greenwich), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › 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 (1h) › 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 (1h) › Inflection and NP-ellipsis in the acquisition of German: Some insights from a corpus study - Johannes Hein (University of Potsdam & Humboldt University of Berlin) 16:00-17:00 (1h) › Do children use the same grammar for comprehension and production?: A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi - Pravaal Yadav (University of Connecticut) 16:00-17:00 (1h) Plenary - Understanding Language Impairment 17:00 - 18:00 (1h) Plenary - Understanding Language Impairment Agora Laurie Tuller Business Meeting 18:00 - 18:30 (30min) Business Meeting Agora Conference Dinner 18:30 - 22:30 (4h) Conference Dinner Amboise Castle	Parallel session 1 - Agora (day3) Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day3) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Parallel session 1 - Agora (day3) Agora › Children's Understanding of Modal Force: Evidence from French - Oana Lungu (Université de Nantes), Anouk Dieuleveut (Université de Genève), Aurore Paumier (Université de Nantes), Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland), Ailís Cournane (New York University) 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Dutch children's interpretation of ONLY in pre-subject and pre-object position - Jelle Kisjes (Hanze University of Applied Sciences), Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen) 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Italian Sign Language (LIS) comprehension in school-aged Deaf LIS L1 Signers and Hearing LIS L2 Learners - Anastasia Parini (University of Milano-Bicocca), Beatrice Giustolisi (University of Milano Biocca) 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Parallel session 1 - Gonzague (day3) Gonzague › “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) 09:00-09:30 (30min) › 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), Aurora Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 09:30-10:00 (30min) › 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) 10:00-10:30 (30min) Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Parallel session 2 - Agora (day3) Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day3) 11:00 - 12:00 (1h) Parallel session 2 - Agora (day3) Agora › The Role of Animacy and Contrast in Overt Personal Pronoun Subjects in Child Romanian - Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest & University of Vienna), Ekaterina Levina (University of Vienna) 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Distributive or collective interpretations of definite plural subjects: Which one is more basic? - Chiara Saponaro (University of Milano-Bicocca), Desiré Carioti (University of Milano-Bicocca) 11:30-12:00 (30min) 11:00 - 12:00 (1h) Parallel session 2 - Gonzague (day3) Gonzague › 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 & University of Groningen) 11:00-11:30 (30min) › The acquisition of nasal vowels in L2 French as a new phonological category - Laura Hund (Universität Konstanz), Svenja Krieger (Universität Konstanz), Tanja Kupisch (Lund University) 11:30-12:00 (30min) Plenary - Reflections on syntactic complexity, through the lens of adolescent language 12:00 - 13:00 (1h) Plenary - Reflections on syntactic complexity, through the lens of adolescent language Agora Cécile de Cat

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