International Symposium on Language Processing in Bilingual Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic and Educational Perspectives

The International Symposium on Language Processing in Bilingual Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic and Educational Perspectives, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) is a one-day symposium organized by the ELC (English Linguistics Circle), in cooperation with the Psycholinguistics Research Group, School of Psychology, which will be held on June 19, 2015, at the University of Minho. 

Featured speakers:

Walter van Heuven, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: "Cross-language interactions in bilingual visual word recognition" [abstract]

Ana Fernández-Dobao, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Washington: "Code switching among bilingual learners of Spanish: social and cognitive functions" [abstract]

Rosa Alonso, Dept. of English, French and German, University of Vigo: "Spatial configuration and construal in L2 English" [abstract]

Ana Paula Soares, Center for Research in Psychology, University of Minho: "On the lexico-syntactic dynamics of second language sentence processing: The role of cognate status, proficiency and task demands on relative clause attachment preferences" [abstract]

Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Dept. of Spanish and Modern and Classical Languages, University of the Balearic Islands: “When ‘errors’ become innovations in the grammar of multilingual adults” [abstract]

Symposium Chair:

Montserrat Comesaña, Center for Research in Psychology, University of Minho

Organising and Scientific Committee:

J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Dept. of English and German, University of Santiago de Compostela

Rosa Alonso, Dept. of English, French and German, University of Vigo

Ana Paula Soares, Center for Research in Psychology, University of Minho

Teresa Fanego, Dept. of English and German, University of Santiago de Compostela

Isabel Fraga, Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela

Ignacio Palacios-Martínez, Dept. of English and German, University of Santiago de Compostela

Javier Pérez-Guerra, Dept. of English, French and German, University of Vigo

Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Dept. of Spanish and Modern and Classical Languages, University of the Balearic Islands