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SUMMARY:Discrete bilectalism\, multilingualism\, and (a)typical language d
 evelopment - Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyp
 rus and Cyprus Acquisition Team)
DTSTART:20121101T170000Z
DTEND:20121101T183000Z
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CONTACT:Alison Biggs
DESCRIPTION:Across the globe\, multilingualism is already the norm in many
  societies. Nevertheless\, research into language acquisition\, developmen
 t\, and breakdown still predominately considers monolingual speakers. Our 
 research into language development focuses on multilingual and multicultur
 al speaker communities — and apparent monolingual language use with a tw
 ist. In this talk\, we will present a small portion of our ongoing researc
 h activities by focusing on two varieties of Greek (Cypriot and Standard M
 odern Greek)\, their role in language development (in a diglossic society 
 like Cyprus)\, and some findings from atypical language development (speci
 fic language impairment). We will also report additional data collected fr
 om truly multilingual children and address the relevance of the local dial
 ect. One of the upshots of this research is to take language acquisition a
 nd development in diglossic contexts to be different from both mono- and b
 ilingual acquisition\; we introduce the term "(discrete) bilectalism" on t
 he basis of the evidence we have established so far. While much of this is
  still ongoing research in many ways\, our talk will make the attempt to p
 ortray the fruitful combination of two perspectives for investigating thes
 e matters\, a theoretical take from linguistics and an empirical view from
  speech pathology.
LOCATION:Erasmus Room\, Old Court\, Queens' College
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