Seminar

Children and youth multilingualism

The international online seminar, Tallinn University, Tallinn 28.11.2022

11/28/2022 - 10:00 - 16:00

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Moderator: Anna Verschik

 

10.00 -10.30 Kapitolina Fedorova (Tallinn University) and Vlada Baranova (Das Nordost-Institut – IKGN)

Accents of Russian in performative use: ethnic styles, language attitudes, and identities of young non-native speakers

10.30 -11.00 Antje Quick (University of Leipzig)

Data-driven approaches to pattern finding in bilingual utterances

11.00 -11.30 Geidi Kilp (Tallinn University)

The insertion of person references motivated by pragmatic differences in Estonian-English-Japanese Facebook communication

11.30 -12.00 Dorota Gaskins (King’s College London)

Metaphor production in young bilingual speakers of Polish and English

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

Moderator: Reili Argus

13.00 -13.30 Natalia Siereda (Tallinn University)

Introduction to Arabic-English code-switching in Egyptian female vlogs

13.30 -14.00 Natalia Gagarina (Leibniz-Zentrum, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)

Multilingualism and diversity in the kindergarten and school. Myths and facts

14.30 -15.00 Elena Antonova-Ünlü (Hacettepe University) and Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek (Middle East Technical University)

Bilingual child acquisition of Turkish: some insights from cross-linguistic research

15.00 -15.30 Anna Verschik (Tallinn University) and Helin Kask (Tallinn University)

English discourse markers in Estonian blogs and vlogs

15.30 Discussion