ISBPAC 2018

The 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2018) took place at the Campus Nord of Technische Universität Braunschweig on May 24th-25th, 2018.

On this page you will find the relevant information about ISBPAC 2018.

  1. Keynote speakers of ISBPAC 2018
  2. The Organization
  3. Important Dates
  4. Program

Keynote Speakers of ISBPAC 2018

  • Vicky Chondrogianni, University of Edinburgh
  • Ian Cunnings, University of Reading
  • Janet van Hell, The Pennsylvania State University

The Organization of ISBPAC 2018

  • Alla Abrosimova
  • Henrike Comes-Koch
  • Ivana Cvekić
  • Claudia Flohr
  • Vera Heyer
  • Holger Hopp
  • Duygu Şafak
  • Erika Wolf

Important Dates

Abstract SubmissionJanuary, 15th 2018
Conference DateMay, 24th and 25th 2018

Program

All times in Central European Time (CET)

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

15:00-18:00Pre-Conference Workshop:  

Theres Grüter (University of Hawai’i) Eye Tracking in Linguistic Research  

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

08:00-08:45Registration
09:00-09:15Conference opening
9:15-10:15Keynote 1
Chair: Holger Hopp

Sentence comprehension in heritage bilingual children Vicky Chondrogianni
10:15-10:45Coffee break
10:45-12:15

Talks 1: Morphology
Chair: Bilal Kırkıcı  

T01 The time-course of verbal morphology anticipation: When interpreting experience makes a difference Christina Lozano-Argüelles, Nuria Sagarra & Joseph Casillas

T02 The nature of derivational priming in L2 learners: Surface form or lexical effects? Vera Heyer  

T03 Persistent differences between native speakers and late bilinguals: Evidence from inflectional and derivational processing in older speakers Kirill Elin, Jana Reifegerste & Harald Clahsen  
12:15-13:15Lunch
13:15 – 14:15Talks 2: Neuroscience
Chair: Edith Kaan  

T04 (Re)exploring the effect of bilingual experience on brain structure Vincent Deluca, Christos Pliatsikas, Jason Rothman & Ellen Byalystok  

T05 ERP evidence for attrition in L1 lexicon and morpho-syntax Karsten Steinhauer & Kristina Kasparian
14:15-15:15Poster session 1
15:15-15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:30Poster session 2
16:30-18:00Talks 3: Code Switching
Chair: Jorge Valdés Kroff  

T06 When switching language is cost-free Michela Mosca, Chaya Manawamma & Kees de Bot  

T07 Code-switching from Dutch to Frisian requires more cognitive control than code-switching from Frisian to Dutch Evelyn Bosma & Elma Blom  

T08 Individual differences in bilingual grammars Clara Cohen, Catherine Higham, Syed Waqar Nabi, Lara Schwarz, Mike Putnam, Gerrit Jan Koostra & Janet van Hell  
19:00Conference dinner

Friday, May 25th, 2018

9:00-10:00Keynote 2
Chair: Vera Heyer   

Parsing and working memory in non-native sentence processing Ian Cunnings
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00Talks 4: Morpho-Syntax & Artificial Languages
Chair: Marit Westergaard  

T09 Language production practice improves comprehension performance on grammatical dependencies in early L2 learning Elise Hopman & Maryellen MacDonald  

T10 Reanalysis processes in non-native sentence comprehension Hiroki Fujita & Ian Cunnings

T11 The use of case marking to predict an upcoming thematic role in L1 and L2 processing Judith Schlenter & Claudia Felser
12:00-13:00Lunch
13:00-14:30Talks 5: Agreement
Chair: Sol Lago  

T12 Gender attraction in native and heritage Greek Anastasia Paspali  

T13 Gender representation and processing in Russian-German bilinguals Oleksandra Gubina & Johannes Gerwien  

T14 How classifiers facilitate processing in L2 Chinese Theres Grüter, Elaine Lau & Wenyi Ling
14:30-15:00Coffee break
15:00-16:00Talks 6: The Early Bilingual Lexicon

Chair: Sharon Unsworth  

T15 Lexical access in auditory and visual word recognition: An eye tracking study with monolingual and bilingual children Christina Schelletter  

T16 Language detection in the early stages of the bilingual lexicon Pauline Schröter & Sascha Schroeder
16:15-17:15Keynote 3
Chair: Henrike Comes-Koch  

Code-switching in bilingual speakers: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence Janet van Hell
17:15-17:30Conference closing