Course modules
The Summer School will include the following five modules:
Albert Costa - Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
Advantages and Costs of Being a Bilingual Speaker
Ton Dijkstra - Radboud University (The Netherlands)
Issues in behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies on cognate processing and models of bilingual processing
Viorica Marian - Northwestern University (USA)
Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing, Language Learning, and Language and Memory
Johanne Paradis - University of Alberta (Canada)
Topics in child bilingual and second language acquisition
Carmen Pérez Vidal - Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
Learning context and contact effects on multilingual development
Doctoral workshop
The doctoral workshop offers students the opportunity to present and discuss their work and receive constructive feedback from the renowned experts present in the summer school.
Workshop Chairs: Dr. Albert Costa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Dr. Istvan Kecskes (SUNY-Albany)
Participants attending the BSBM13 are kindly invited to submit their contributions for the doctoral workshop, which will be held on Thursday afternoon from 15:30 to 19:00. Each contribution should use 15-20 minutes to present Master or PhD research projects either in progress or finished, and it will be followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The workshop chairs will lead the discussion with the audience.
Proposals should be submitted by filling in the online submission form below and they will be reviewed anonymously. Abstracts can have one or multiple authors, and length should not exceed 200 words (excluding references).
Click here to access the online submission system.
A certificate will be provided for each presentation.
Abstract submission deadline: May 31 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 10 2013
Preliminary programme
Monday, September 16
9:00: Opening
9:30-13:30: Albert Costa
Coffee Break 11:30
Tuesday, September 17
9:30-13:30: Viorica Marian
Coffee Break 11:00
13:30-15:30: Lunch break
15:30-19:30: Carmen Pérez-Vidal
Coffee Break 17:00
Wednesday, September 18
9:30-13:30: Johanne Paradis
Coffee Break 11:00
Thursday, September 19
9:30-13:30: Ton Dijkstra
Coffee Break 11:00
13:30-15:30: Lunch break
15:30-19:00: Doctoral Workshop
19:00-19:30 Certificates and closure
English will be the working language of the Summer School