Circulation of this e-mail would be greatly appreciated.
This is to announce the 8th Research Roundtable for Bilingualism as a First Language (BiL1): Focus on bilingual children’s language development
Anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join us.
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The 8th Research Roundtable for Bilingualism as a First Language (BiL1)
“Developing and Maintaining Bilingualism as a First Language”
(I) Date: Oct. 20th 2013 (Sun.) 13:30-16:30
(II) Place: Room 1005, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka Umeda Campus
(K.G. Hub Square Osaka) (10th floor of Applause Tower, 19-19 Chayamachi,
Kita-ku, Osaka city, 530-0013)
(Phone: 06-6485-5611 Fax: 06-6485-5612 Web: http://www.kwansei.ac.jp/kg_hub)
*We have arranged sign language interpreters.
(III) Programme
M.C. NAMBA, Kazuhiko (Kyoto Sangyo University)
1. Opening Address
13:30
YAMAMOTO, Masayo (Kwansei Gakuin University)
2. Special Lecture
13:40-15:00 "Bilingual first language retention and attrition - a three-year longitudinal case study from linguistic and brain-imaging perspectives"
TAURA, Hideyuki (Ritsumeikan University)
Break
15:00-15:10
3. Special Lecture
15:10-16:20 "Cross-linguistic influence in Japanese/English simultaneous development: Argument realization and omission in the two languages"
Mishina-Mori, Satomi (Rikkyo University)
4. Closing address
16:20-16:30 IKARI, Yukio (Osaka City University)
(IV) Fee : 1000 yen (members : free)
(V) Participation: Simply turn up on the day. There is no need to RSVP.
(VI) Dinner party: We're planning dinner after the research roundtable at a restaurant nearby (17:00-19:00 at a cost of about 5,000 yen). Details will be announced later, but let us know by e-mail to tairaeiji (a) kwansei.ac.jpby Saturday, Oct 12th if you'd like to come to the dinner. In the e-mail message, please write 1) your name, 2) affiliation, 3) e-mail address and put the title of the message as “Application for BiL1 dinner party”.