PT Downunder: Regional Research Group on Processability, Second Language Acquisition and Bilingual/Multilingual First Language Acquisition*

The regional PT research group will be holding a seminar on Saturday, 21 March, from 2:00 – 5:30, which will be held at the Australian National University, Baldessin Precinct Building 110, level 3, Room W3.03.

Program

2:00 – 2:10 pm  Welcome

2:10 – 3:00 pm  Processability Theory: The Prominence Hypothesis and the Lexical Mapping Hypothesis: Satomi Kawaguchi and Bruno Di Biase

3:00 - 3.30 pm  Crosslinguistic issues: Questions and Discussion: Chair: Louise Jansen

3:30 - 3:45 pm  Short tea break

3:45 – 4:15 pm  The development of pronouns in L2 at the syntax-discourse interface: the case of Italian clitics: Marco Magnani

4:15 – 4:45 pm  Trilingual first language acquisition of Vietnamese, French and English: A work in progress report: Loan Dao

4:45 – 5:15 pm  Conclusion and closure. Chair: Louise Jansen

* PT Downunder is an informal working group comprising researchers from Australia and New Zealand conducting research in the area of language learning and teaching with a focus on (or incorporating) Processability Theory.

This regional group is part of a wider international network of researchers, which organizes annual Symposia world-wide. The regional PT Group organizes occasional seminars at various locations, mainly at the University of Western Sydney and the Australian National University. The seminars discuss theoretical and methodological issues arising from work in progress.

For further information please contact Dr Satomi Kawaguchi from Western Sydney University S.kawaguchi@uws.edu.au or Louise Jansen from the Australian National University Louise.Jansen@anu.edu.au