Using Diversity in Multilingual Experience as a Model to Study Neural Plasticity: workshop 2
This is the second workshop hosted by the Young CAS-project "Diversity in Multilingual Experience as a Model to Study Neural Plasticity". This workshop is open for invited participants only. On 6 March, a public workshop will take place, see "Understanding bi-/multilingualism as a life experience" for programme and more information.
The aim of this workshop is to map factors that pertain to diversity of experience within multilingualism and how certain factors (e.g., various environmental, sociocultural, and other factors, and their interaction) may carry more or less influence on language control demands across the lifespan. Specific topics will include: 1) theoretical and empirical insights to individual differences in (multilingual) language experience; 2) context-specific (e.g., sociolinguistic) factors that influence the context-general mechanisms of adaptation; and 3) understudied factors in multilingualism and neurocognition (e.g., relative linguistic distance).
Day 1, 6 March
9:30
Introductions and workshop goal outlines
10:30
Individual meetings
12:00
Lunch
13:00-17:30
Public workshop (UiT- SVHUM B1005, also streamed via Teams)
Day 2, 7 March
Morning session- Language distance- Marco as discussant, Christos as session lead
Coffee break
Mid-morning session- language experience- Ad Backus as presenter/discussant (joining online), Merel as session lead
Lunch
Afternoon session- Language development- Ewa as discussant, Gigi as session lead
Coffee break
Late afternoon/evening session - Language learning- Patrick as discussant, Zofia as session lead
Day 3, 8 March
Morning session: Synthesis of discussion/presentations,
Discuss plans for workshop 3 and research stay at CAS