(Psycho)linguistic approaches to language contact, bilingualism and code switching

This course is designed for PhD students in linguistics. It is a part of the PhD course program within the National Research School in Linguistics and Philology, but open to all PhD students. It is a 5 ECTS course, with 3 ECTS to be granted on the basis of regular and active participation, and 2 ECTS on the basis of a ca. 10-page essay.

Lecturers

Marianne Gullberg, Professor of psycholinguistics, Lund University, Sweden

Rosemarie Tracy, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Mannheim, Germany

In her four lectures, Marianne Gullberg will introduce two methodological approaches to bilingualism studies in order to discuss theoretical issues of ‘knowledge’ vs. real-time use of that knowledge, multimodality, and the status of monolingual, native norms. She starts by discussing online vs. offline methods for studying bilingualism more generally. In the second lecture, Gullberg focuses on online approaches to code-switching in particular looking both at mind and brain. In the third lecture, she turns to multimodal approaches to bilingualism. She first introduces gestures to show how they can shed light on linguistic issues. She then discusses bimodal bilingualism in sign language. In the last lecture, she focuses on crossmodal and crosslinguistic influences, to discuss the status of the monolingual native speaker norm.

Rosemarie Tracy's series of four lectures focuses on theoretical and empirical issues in language contact research. Tracy will first identify a range of typical phenomena (borrowing, loan translation, code-switching, attrition as a result of language contact) and discuss the theoretical challenges, both from a typological perspective (taking into account similarities and differences between languages) and from a sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic point of view (functions of mixing, what does mixing tell us about speech production, competition and monitoring?). The data discussed stem from naturalistic case studies with German immigrants in the U.S. (oral and written data) and from children growing up with English and German as two simultaneous first languages.

Marianne Gullberg is Professor of Psycholinguistics and Director of the Humanities Lab at Lund University, Sweden. She studied Linguistics, Latin, and Ancient Greek at Lund University where she also obtained her PhD. She received her ‘Qualification de Professeur des Universités en Sciences du Langage’ from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Her research interests include adult second language (L2) acquisition and use, L2/bilingual processing, and gesture production and comprehension in L1 and L2 acquisition. She headed the Multilingualism group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands for eight years. She is the cofounder of the Nijmegen Gesture Centre which she coordinated until 2010. She currently leads two major research projects (‘Multilingualism through the lifespan: The effects of first exposure to an unknown language’ and ‘Swedish word order processing in L2 learners and native speakers: A psycholinguistic and neurocognitive approach’).

Rosemarie Tracy is Professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Mannheim, Germany. She studied English, Romance Languages and Psychology at the Universities of Mannheim, Göttingen and in the U.S. Tracy obtained her PhD from the University of Göttingen and did her 'Habilitation' at the University of Tübingen. Her research interests include monolingual language acquisition, the simultaneous acquisition of two first languages, early second language acquisition, and language contact phenomena (language mixing, code-switching) in children and adults. In 2002 she founded what is now the Mannheimer Zentrum für empirische Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung (mazem, Mannheim Center for Empiricial Multilingualism Research), and she is currently involved in various language intervention and evaluation projects with pre-school institutions and schools. She recently published a book on language acquisition and bilingualism in children, written for lay audiences.

Preliminary programme

Programme 24. - 26. August 2011

Reading list

Reading list 24.- 26. August 2011

REGISTRATION

If you wish to register for the course or have any other questions, please contact Dagmar Haumann or Rune Røsstad as soon as possible, but no later than July 1, 2011. If possible, specify whether you aim at collecting 3 ECTS or 5 ECTS credits.

ACCOMMODATION

In Kristiansand, there are a number of hotels at variable prices. The Norge Rica Partner Hotel, Dronningens gate 5, tel. +47 3817 40 00, has reserved (until August 1) a few rooms for our course period (agreed-on price NOK 890 incl. breakfast per night, ref. nr. 104002). The hotel is centrally located in Kristiansand with the airport bus stop right in front of the hotel. The hotel is within walking distance from the campus at Gimlemoen (30 mins brisk walk). Busses commute regularly between campus and the city center See the map (pdf).

Kristiansand map

Course leaders:
Professor Dagmar Haumann
dagmar.haumann@uia.no
Institutt for fremmedspråk og oversetting
Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk
Universitetet i Agder
Sørvisboks 422
NO-4604 Kristiansand S
tlf. (+47) 38 14 15 59

Associate Professor Rune Røsstad
rune.rosstad@uia.no
Institutt for nordisk og mediefag
Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk
Universitetet i Agder
Sørvisboks 422
NO-4604 Kristiansand S
tlf. (+47) 38 14 20 60

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