The Slovenian branch of Bilingualism Matters serving bilingual communities, parents raising bilingual children, school teachers, and general public in Slovenia and nearby Italian provinces
BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *Launched 25. November 2014, with the seat at the Center for Cognitive Science of Language at the University of Nova Gorica (www.ung.si/ckzj/en)
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 • Prof. Penka Stateva (director) • Prof. Artur Stepanov • Prof. Franc Marušič • Prof. Rok Žaučer • Dr. Petra Mišmaš • Dr. Sara Andreetta (former director)
• + our great volunteers!
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 • Our website: vecjezicnost.ung.si • Available in: Slovenian, English, Italian
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 • Our Facebook page: Večjezičnost velja
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016. • Our Twitter profile: @VecjezicnostUNG
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016. • disseminating the latest results on research on multilingualism, particularly targeting multilingual families and school teachers; • raising public awareness of the benefits and challenges of multilingualism; • supporting regional languages; • consulting and advising on issues related to raising multilingual children, multilingual teaching practices etc.
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *November 26, 2014: Public lecture of Prof. Antonella Sorace “Dvojezičnost: naložba za družino in družbo / Il bilinguismo: un investimento per le famiglie e la società *organized by VV in collaboration with SLOVIK (an ATHEME stakeholder), Gorizia. *Approx. 60 people attending, mostly bilinguals *
BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *Public presentations in Slovenian secondary schools in Izola (12. October 2015) and Gorizia (11. January 2016) discussing the results of our research on acquisition of pragmatic abilities in bilinguals vs. monolinguals *Audience: teachers and parents
BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 * * June 28. 2016: An international public event “Living with two languages: from childhood to the third age” * organized by VV in collaboration with the Slovene Research Institution (new ATHEME stakeholder) for the bilingual communities in the Primorska region of Slovenia and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia province of Italy in Gorizia. * featured five invited talks on linguistic, sociolinguistic and cognitive aspects of multilingualism, delivered by prominent international researchers, followed by a lively discussion. *
BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *March 2015: interview with prof. Penka Stateva on Radio Koper (Slovenia) on cultural, linguistic and cognitive aspects of multilingualism and the role of VV in public outreach.
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *In 2015, prof. Franc Marušič, dr. Petra Mišmaš and prof. Rok Žaucer coauthored a book entitled “Spletna jezikovna svetovalnica za slovenski jezik” addressing lexical and grammatical features of the Primorska Slovenian regional varieties spoken in Italy.
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *An Iranian woman living in Slovenia and married to a Slovenian has always spoken English to their daughter. Her husband encourages her to use her native language (Farsi) for that purpose.
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *A director of an English language kindergarten in Italy wants to provide scientific support to parents asking information about very young children learning a foreign language (English).
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *A Slovenian mother living in Italy spoke Slovenian to her older child since birth but then stopped doing so. She would like to resume speaking Slovenian to the child again.
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *ATHEME WP 5 Task 3 Pragmatic abilities *D5.3 Stateva, P. , Andreetta, S., Dupuy, L., Cheylus, A., Déprez, V., van der Henst, J.-B., Jayez, J., Stepanov, A., and Reboul, A. 2015. Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures *D5.5 Stateva, P., Andreetta, S. Dupuy, L. Reboul, A. and Stepanov, A. 2016. Children’s development of pragmatic reasoning related to Maximize presupposition *
BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *ATHEME WP 5 Task 1 Impact of age and language distance & ultimate attainment *Stepanov, A., Andreetta, S., and Stateva, P. 2016. The role of language distance in the non-native processing of complex syntax
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *ATHEME WP 2 Regional Languages *Participation in state of the art report on maintenance of regional bilingualism *Participation in the state of the art report on grammatical diversity of regional languages *Marušič, F. and Žaucer, R. 2016. The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016 *CNRS-L2C2 Lyon: joint work on pragmatic abilities of bilingual and monolingual children and L2 adults. *UPV/EHU: advise about experimental design in the article on ultimate attainment in L2
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BM meeting. Trento, 13-14 September 2016