ABSTRACTS 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE STUDY OF CHILD LANGUAGE IN LYON, IASCL FRANCE 2017 WELCOME JULY, 17TH21ST 2017 SPECIAL THANKS TO - 2 - SUMMARY Plenary Day 1 4 Day 2 5 Day 3 53 Day 4 101 Day 5 146 WELCOME! Symposia Day 2 6 Day 3 54 Day 4 102 Day 5 147 Poster Day 2 189 Day 3 239 Day 4 295 - 3 - TH DAY MONDAY, 17 1 18:00-19:00, GRAND AMPHI PLENARY TALK Bottom-up and top-down information in infants’ early language acquisition Sharon Peperkamp Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, France Decades of research have shown that before they pronounce their first words, infants acquire much of the sound structure of their native language, while also developing word segmentation skills and starting to build a lexicon. The rapidity of this acquisition is intriguing, and the underlying learning mechanisms are still largely unknown. Drawing on both experimental and modeling work, I will review recent research in this domain and illustrate specifically how both bottom-up and top-down cues contribute to infants’ acquisition of phonetic cat- egories and phonological rules. - 4 - TH DAY TUESDAY, 18 2 9:00-10:00, GRAND AMPHI PLENARY TALK What do the hands tell us about lan- guage development? Insights from de- velopment of speech, gesture and sign across languages Asli Ozyurek Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Most research and theory on language development focus on children’s spoken utterances. However language development starting with the first words of children is multimodal. Speaking children produce gestures ac- companying and complementing their spoken utterances in meaningful ways through pointing or iconic ges- tures. Secondly, children learning a sign language use the visual modality (i.e., hands, face and body) to fulfill all linguistic functions at different stages of language development. In this talk I will present recent research on the role visual modality plays both in spoken language development accompanied by gestures as well as in development of sign languages- bringing findings from two fields of research together and how tehy inform each other. This broader multimodal view shows that expressive affordances of visual modality, allowing for iconic representations and visible indexicality in gesture or sign, provide, children alternative routes and step- ping stones in language development than speech does alone. I will also show that visual modality might fulfill different functions in language development depending on the language type. - 5 - TH DAY TUESDAY, 18 10:30-12:30, GRAND AMPHI Josie’s contribution to the field of developmental 2 pragmatics in language acquisition. References Bernicot, J. (1992). Les actes de langage chez l’en- fant. Paris: PUF. SYMPOSIUM Bernicot, J. (2014). Bases of linguistic development. In C. Fäcke (Ed.). Manual of language acquisition (pp. 143-161). Berlin: de Gruyter. Matthews, D. (2014). Pragmatic development in first Tribute to Josie Bernicot: language acquisition. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: how her reflection will shape John Benjamins Publishing Company. the future of developmental pragmatics PRESENTATION 1: CONVENER: Michèle Guidetti, CLLE, Université Tribute to Josie Bernicot: Gestures de Toulouse, CNRS & UT2J, France [email protected] and communicative acts in lan- DISCUSSANT: Danielle Matthews, The Univer- guage acquisition sity of Sheffield, U.K. danielle.mat- [email protected] Michèle Guidetti, CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS & UT2J, France [email protected] Josie Bernicot passed away on May 12, 2015, at 59 years old, after having lived for many years with a Children begin to gesture long before talking. Ges- neuromuscular disease. She was a generous and tures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, con- passionate scientist and her enthusiasm for re- stitute the principal means of interacting conven- search was contagious. Her original way of thinking tionally with others before the emergence of the was a source of inspiration to many colleagues and lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start students and her groundbreaking ideas still greatly talking, and through to adulthood. Josie Bernicot contribute to advance the field of pragmatics in lan- never worked on very young children or on gestures guage acquisition. and multimodal development. But she gave me the opportunity from the moment I started working in This symposium aims to be a tribute to the origi- her research team to extend and apply the speech nal perspective she developed in developmental act theory she used a lot to study requests, to ges- pragmatics and to show how her thinking still paves tures and communicative development. the way to future research. Josie Bernicot thought that the key explanation of linguistic knowledge is I will show in this talk how heuristic this perspective not to be found in language itself but in the relation is to study both typical and atypical development in between the structure of language and the charac- cross linguistic environments. I will also show there teristics of communicative situations. In other words, still is a lot to be done in order to better understand language knowledge cannot be reduced to grammar. some key concepts related to gesture and language Mastering a language requires being able to adjust acquisition, both theoretical and methodological, linguistic markings to the social context and the such as gestures and language acquisition and evo- goals of the situation at hand. She noted that such lution, multimodal development, form and function a position, “which corresponds to the scientific field in gestures, and gesture classification and termi- of Pragmatics”, has implications for how language nology. Human communication should therefore acquisition in children -- but also at later ages -- is be regarded as multimodal, incorporating gestures conceived. She applied this perspective not only to from the very outset. Multimodality has recently typically developing children but also to atypical de- become a subject of interest, stressing the impor- velopment in fundamental and applied research. In tance of multidisciplinarity in order to improve our her last years, she became interested in digital writ- understanding of human cognition, in both its typi- ing and she showed that the practice of text messag- cal and pathological aspects. ing has no influence on the spelling of high school References students. This symposium will bring together four researchers, juniors and seniors, who have worked Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2014). The development of with J. Bernicot both on typical and atypical develop- speech acts. In: D., Matthews (ed). Pragmatic de- ment and on digital writing. They will put her work in velopment in first language acquisition (pp. 37-52). perspective and show how inspiring her thinking was Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publish- to their own research. The discussant will celebrate ing Company. - 6 - DAY Guidetti, M. (2015). Gestures and multimodal com- epistemological choices in the field of pragmatics 2 munication: developmental and pathological as- on language conception in the context of an inter- pects. In: C. Astesano & M. Jucla (eds). NeuroPsy- actionist approach. I will follow this thread from choLinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition. her early work on speech acts to her more recent Abigdon: Routledge. studies on repetition through the attention paid to the influence of interactional conditions in structur- Guidetti, M., Fibigerova, K., & Colletta, J.M. (2014). al and functional aspects of language development. GRAND AMPHI GRAND Gestures and multimodal development: some key issues for child language acquisition. In: M. Seyfed- dinipur & M. Gullberg (eds). From Gesture in Con- versation to Visible Utterance in Action. (pp.351- PRESENTATION 3: 370). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins 10:30-12:30, 10:30-12:30, TH Publishing Company. Tribute to Josie Bernicot: Pragmatic Disorders across the life span Dardier Virginie, CRPCC - Université Rennes II, France PRESENTATION 2: TUESDAY, 18 TUESDAY, [email protected] Interactional context, speech acts Josie Bernicot has devoted much of her research and meaning in dialogue: how to the pragmatic aspects of language in the atyp- much are they entwined? ical development. She first focused on the issue of communication for children with degenerative Anne Salazar-Orvig, CLESTHIA, Université Sorbonne diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Nouvelle - Paris 3, France anne.salazar-orvig@univ- Her research has led to the emergence of a neu- paris3.fr ropragmatic approach when people with right and frontal lesions are concerned. These brain-dam- In the French and international scientific landscape, ages are part of their “invisible disability”. Josie Josie Bernicot was an active promoter of the cen- Bernicot’s research has drawn attention to the tral position of pragmatics in the study of language need to take them into account in the reeduca- acquisition. Her enthusiasm, tenacity and deter- tion process. More recently, she has contributed mination allowed the development of a community to refine the pragmatic profiles of children with of scholars, linguists and psychologists. This was Williams syndrome and Specific Language Impair- made possible because of strong theoretical choic- ment. She has built a number of collaborative re- es that made her call, in her book on speech acts, lationships with psychologists, linguists, doctors for a new kind of psycholinguistics which