Workshop “Adaptations to Multilingualism/Bilingualism and the Role of Linguistic Proximity”

When

February 13-14, 2025

Where

Center for Theoretical Linguistics (CLT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The CLT group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is pleased to announce the workshop ATOM (Adaptations to Multilingualism/Bilingualism), to be held in Barcelona, February 13-14, 2025.  The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from around the world who approach the topic of neurocognitive adaptations to bilingualism through different perspectives and disciplines. The focus is on the type of effects bilingualism/multilingualism confers to different domains of cognition (e.g., language, executive functions, attention, etc.).

Emphasis will be given to the factors that drive bilingual effects (e.g., degree or type of bilingual experience, degree of language switching, sociolinguistic aspects related to language use). Among these factors, it has been suggested that language proximity/distance stands out for its unclear role. We welcome contributions that address how language distance may affect bilingual adaptations and how this factor is to be measured from an empirical point of view.

Keynote Speakers

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta (New York University)
Anna Gavarró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
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Practical matters

The deadline for submissions is November 15. You may submit an abstract for consideration as a paper, poster or both.  Please indicate in your submission if you would like to be considered as a paper or poster only; all others will be automatically considered for both. Abstract submissions must fit on one A4 page, written in Times New Roman script, 12-point font. A second, optional page can be used for references, charts/tables of data and for examples of experi­mental methodology only. There is no registration fee. ATOM is funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación through the project PID2021-124399NA-I00 (project “Adaptations to Multilingualism and the Role of Linguistic Proximity”. PI: Evelina Leivada).

Submit your abstract here https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/ATOM/

Important dates

Submission: November 15, 2024
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2024
Workshop: February 13-14, 2025

Organizing Committee

Lourdes Aguilar Cuevas
Marina Bolea Centelles
M.Teresa Espinal
Evelina Leivada
Elena Pagliarini
Gemma Repiso-Piugdelliura

Members

Publications

Preprints

Camilla Masullo, Alba Casado, Evelina Leivada & Antonella Sorace. Preprint. Register variation and linguistic background modulate accuracy in detecting morphosyntactic errors. PsyArXiv.

2024

Camilla Masullo, Alba Casado & Evelina Leivada. 2024. The role of minority language bilingualism in spotting agreement attraction errors: Evidence from Italian varieties. PLoS ONE 19(2), e0298648.

Vittoria Dentella, Camilla Masullo & Evelina Leivada. 2024. Bilingual disadvantages are systematically compensated by bilingual advantages across tasks and populations. Nature Scientific Reports 14, 2107.

2023

Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther & Evelina Leivada. 2023. Systematic testing of three Language Models reveals low language accuracy, absence of response stability, and a yes-response bias. PNAS 120(51), e2309583120.

Evelina Leivada. 2023. A classification bias and an exclusion bias jointly overinflated the estimation of publication biases in bilingualism research. Behavioral Sciences 13, 812.

Camilla Masullo, Vittoria Dentella & Evelina Leivada. 2023. 73% of the observed bilingual (dis)advantageous effects on cognition stem from sociolinguistic factors: A systematic review. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 1-15.

Evelina Leivada, Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Maria Carmen Parafita Couto & Sílvia Perpiñán. 2023. Bilingualism with minority languages: Why searching for unicorn language users does not move us forward. Applied Psycholinguistics 44, 384-399.