Research Symposium: Multilingualism, cognition and language acquisition: new findings, new directions

Second language acquisition and the acquisition of multiple languages in varied social contexts continues to be a focus of research in linguistics and beyond. In this symposium we will explore this area considering the interaction between language acquisition and factors as varied as cognition, brain adaptations, heritage languages, cross-linguistic influences and individual differences. This is a good opportunity to hear a group of talks arising from the research programme pioneered by Prof. Jason Rothman and to ask him and his co-researchers questions related to their work.

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Programme

10:30 am – 11:20 am

Individual differences are revealing, relevant and not random in multilingual language acquisition/processing and related adaptations in neurocognition

Jason Rothman

Lancaster University, UK

11:20 am – 11:30 am

Q&A

11:30 am – 11:50 am

Cross-linguistic influence in child heritage bilingualism: the role of overlap and individual differences

Jiuzhou Hao

Edinburgh University, UK

11:50 am – 12:00 pm

Q&A

12:00 pm – 12:20 pm

Multilingual engagement at the individual level and its role in predicting neurocognitive adaptations across the lifespan: Recent and ongoing work for our lab

Jia’en Yee

Lancaster University, UK

12:20 pm – 12:30 pm

Q&A