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Description
Modular interactions in morpho-syntactic development
This workshop aims to explore the role of interactions between morphosyntax and other modules of language or cognition in language development and language microvariation. Why are some aspects of grammar learned early, and others late? Why is the acquisition of certain properties delayed in sequential bilingualism? (Schulz & Grimm 2019) Why do languages have properties that are more likely than others to vary across time and space? Much explored as an answer to these questions are frequencies and distributional properties of the relevant forms that vary within and across languages and serve as input to children (Legate & Yang, 2007). Less explored however is the role of the interaction between domains in development. We know that some aspects of the morphosyntax depend on prerequisite knowledge in other aspects of the linguistic system (Pérez-Leroux et al, 2012, Unsworth, 2014) and/or other domains of cognition (Johnston 1985, Pérez-Leroux 1998) and that we can use morphology to learn syntax and semantics (Barbir et al 2023, among many others). We also know from recent work that there are reflexes of the interactions between phonetics and morphosyntactic acquisition in stable environments Davies and Demuth 2023) and also contact environments (Colantoni et al 2020) but much is still left to be explored.
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Contact: [email protected]
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Organizers: Ana T. Alves (University of Azores); Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State); Ana T. Pérez Leroux (University of Toronto)
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