Developmental Linguistics Research Group

Activities

Some past and current projects
The syntax-discourse interface in older bilingual children Serratrice, Sorace
Effects of bilingualism in non-linguistic domains Sorace, Della Sala
Divergence and optionality in near-native grammars Sorace
Acquiring the unaccusative-unergative distinction Sorace
Losing the V2 constraint Sorace, Robertson and Bard
The emergence of functional categories in bilingual first language acquisition Serratrice
Syntactic native language attrition Sorace, Heycock and Tsimpli
Language change and variation in Faroese Heycock, Sorace
Prosodic development in early child language Ota
Learnability of the stratified phonological lexicon Ota
The phonology of the L2 lexicon: Representation and encoding Ota, Sorace and Ladd
Cue-weighting in children's perception Mayo, Turk
Comparison of word-learning strategies in monolingual and bilingual children Skarabela, Wilson, Campbell, Healey
Early Child Bilingualism Project Sorace, Argyri, Tsimpli, Cornips, Hulk, Unsworth

Conferences

Members of the group have organised the following conferences:

  • GALA Conference on Language Acquisition (Edinburgh, April 1997)
    Organisers: Antonella Sorace, Caroline Heycock, Richard Shillcock
    Assistant: Ludovica Serratrice
  • EUROSLA 2003 (Edinburgh, September 2003)
    Organizers: Antonella Sorace, Mits Ota, Mike Sharwood Smith
    Assistants: Susie Flett, Froso Argyri
  • 11th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (Edinburgh, July-August 2008)
    Organizers: Antonella Sorace, Mits Ota, Barbora Skarabela