Presentations

Presentations from the past 5 years (2021-2026)

(* = invited talk)

*November 2026: How variation does not necessarily lead to cross-linguistic influence: attributive adjectives in Spanisch en French as heritage languages in Germany. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Multi-Word Units in Heritage Speakers. Universität Regensburg (Germany).

August 2026: When the heritage language accelerates the societal language in early multilingualism: The case of Romance heritage languages and German. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Workshop on Heritage Speakers and their Repertoire. Angenommen.

August 2026: The development of subject clitics in French: Insights from language acquisition in monolingual and multilingual children. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Workshop on Clitics, clitic placement, and cliticisation. Zusammen mit L. D’Aurizio, G. Resmja und N. Müller. Angenommen.

Juni 2026: The null subject property in HL Catalan: Insights from simultaneous Catalan-German children living in Germany. Catalan Linguistics at Oxford Day (Oxford, Großbritannien). Angenommen.

Mai 2026: L’adquisició i l’ús de marcadors discursius en el català com a llengua d’herència a Alemanya. Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena (Wien, Österreich). Angenommen.

*April 2026: Mehrsprachigkeit mit zwei, drei oder mehreren Sprachen – nach 40 Jahren Forschung: why it matters more than ever. Workshop im Rahmen der Sommerschule Mehrsprachigkeit, früher oder später: Wege des Erstspracherwerbs bis zum Erwerb einer L3, experimentelle Perspektiven auf den Erwerb romanischer Sprachen im digitalen Zeitalter. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). 

März 2026: Intrasentential code-switching in Catalan-German(-Spanish) multilingual children. Kick-off Workshop The Architecture of the Multilingual Mind New Perspectives on Subjects within Parameter Hierarchies in the Context of Code-mixing/Code-switching. Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

January 2026: Variation does not always lead to cross-linguistic effects: Attributive adjectives in the early acquisition of Spanish as heritage or majority languages. Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (Reading, Großbritannien).

January 2026: ‘zwei stücke síndria’: Code-switching in multilingual children acquiring Catalan, German and Spanish as heritage/majority languages. Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (Reading, Großbritannien). Accepted.

*November 2025: Code-switching in multilingual children acquiring Catalan, German and Spanish as heritage and/or majority languages. English and German Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).

*November 2025: Syntactic variation and cross-linguistic effects? Spanish and French attributive adjectives in early multilingualism. Research Group ALLENCAM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

September 2025: Geschwister und Eltern für den Erhalt der Herkunftssprachen. HSU-Interregio, University Duisburg-Essen (Essen, Germany).

June 2025: Language choice in children with French as a first foreign language in Germany: A multilingual advantage. RÉAL2 – Réseau en Acquisition des Langues Secondes. Together with L. d’Aurizio, G. Resmja and N. Müller.

June 2025: Variation does not always lead to cross-linguistic effects: Attributive adjectives in the early acquisition of Spanish and French as heritage/majority languages. EUROSLA34, Tromsø (Norway). Accepted.

June 2025: ‘zwei stücke síndria’: Code-switching in multilingual children acquiring Catalan, German and Spanish. EUROSLA34, Tromsø (Norway). Accepted.

June 2025: When schools become multilingual: Enhancing production and receptive heritage language competences. International Symposium on Bilingualism, San Sebastián (Spain).

*June 2025: Panel discussant an dem Workshop Heritage Language Education and Policy, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).

March 2025: Aprendiendo alemán y español de forma simultánea en Alemania o España y cómo influye el input fuera del núcleo familiar: los verbos copulativos ser y estar. Hispanistiktag 2025, Hamburg (Germany).

December 2024: Syntactic variation with no cross-linguistic effects: What Romance attributive adjectives have been telling us. 5. Workshop im Rahmen des DFG-Netzwerkes Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).

December 2024: No cross-linguistic effects in variation: Attributive adjectives in the early acquisition of Spanish and French as heritage/majority languages. Going Romance 2024, Braga (Portugal).

December 2024: On the early acquisition of null subjects in Catalan and German as heritage or majority languages: early multilingualism in Germany and Catalonia. Going Romance 2024, Braga (Portugal). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

*November 2024: Does syntactic variation always lead to cross-linguistic effects? The case of Romance attributive adjectives in early multilingual grammars. Heritage Language Syntax: The Romance Symposium, Hamburg (Germany).

July 2024: On the early acquisition of null subjects in Catalan and German as heritage or majority languages: early multilingualism in Germany and Catalonia. EUROSLA33, Montpellier (France). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

July 2024: Supporting heritage languages outside the family: a cross-sectional study on early German-Spanish bilingualism in Germany and Spain. EUROSLA33, Montpellier (France). Together with J. Stahnke and N. Müller.

April 2024: The multilingual advantage of L1 and L2 learners in the acquisition of French subjects: Insights from a generative perspective. Workshop on Models of Grammar in Language Didactics within the LiDi-Conference. Dortmund (Germany). Together with J. Stahnke, N. Müller, L. Bauke and D. Wegner.

February 2024: Children benefit from linguistic knowledge without transfer. A language-as-resource view for future multilingual education. 4. Workshop within the framework of the DFG-Network Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). Together with D. Wegner and N. Müller.

February 2024: The benefits of acquiring variation across the board: what we learn from multilingual grammars. 4. Workshop within the framework of the DFG-Network Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).

November 2023: Fillers in bilingual children acquiring the non-null-subject property of French: syntactic and prosodic considerations. Going Romance XXXVII, Radboud University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Together with J. Stahnke, L. d’Aurizio and N. Müller.

September 2023: Tapping into linguistic competence in early heritage language acquisition: the receptive vocabulary task as a measure for monolingual and bilingual baselines. Research Unit 'Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations (RUEG) Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

September 2023: The emergence of code-switching in early multilingual acquisition: The role of input quantity and quality factors in Catalan as a heritage language. 38. Romanistentag, University of Leipzig (Germany). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

September 2023: e dis pas ça: Fillers in bilingual French children acquiring the null-subject property. Romance Turn 11, UNED Madrid (Spain). Together with L. d'Aurizio, I. Silva Colaco, N. Müller and J. Stahnke.

July 2023: The role of internal and external factors for code-mixing: A study of early multilingualism in Germany with special reference to Catalan as a heritage language. AILA 23, University of Lyon (France). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

June 2023: Subject omissions in monolingual French- and monolingual English- speaking children: Evidence for parameter hierarchies and consequences for intervention. 29. Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS), Working group on research linguistics and its practical applications, Université Paris-Est-Creteil (UPEC), Paris (France). Together with J. Schneegans, T. Hojati, M. Lutkewitz and N. Müller.

May 2023: No crosslinguistic effects in variation: the case of attributive adjectives in Romance. 3. Workshop within the framework of the DFG-Network Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).

February 2023: Preverbal, postverbal and null-subjects in Spanish: Comparing multilingual speaker groups and methods. XXIII. Deutscher Hispanistentag, University of Graz (Austria). Together with J. Stahnke, J. Cadórniga Martínez, A. Jiménez-Gaspar, E. Scalise and A. Sivakumar.

January 2023: Spanish, Catalan and German as heritage and majority languages in Germany and Catalonia: first results. Research colloquium, Romance Linguistics, University of Hamburg (Germany).

September 2022: Untangling the factors for Spanish and French adjective placement in early multilingual acquisition. 2. Workshop within the framework of the DFG-Network Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).

June 2022: Spanisch als Deutsch als Herkunfts- und Umgebungssprachen: Faktoren für Sprachkompetenz. Research colloquium, Romance linguistics, , Universität Hamburg (Germany).

April 2022: Catalan-German Code-Mixing in early bilingual and trilingual acquisition: Catalan as a heritage language in Germany. 39 International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Universidad de Las Palmas (Spain). Together with Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar.

April 2022: The acquisition of the null subject parameter in Catalan as a heritage language. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. University of Louisiana at Lafayette (USA). Together with Caroline Daniel and Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar.

March 2022: ­­­Interne und externe Faktoren zur Sprachdominanz und Code-Mixing im (früh)kindlichen Alter: eine Studie zum Katalanischen als Herkunftssprache in Germany. LIMES-colloquium. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen (Germany).

*February 2022: Catalan as a heritage language in Germany: past, present and future. Talk given within the research group BIBA (Bidirectional Effects of Bilingualism Across Ages). Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).

January 2022: Katalanisch als Herkunftssprache in Germany. Talk as invited speaker within a seminar on Romance languages and heritage languages and their speakers in Germany. Universität Hamburg (Germany).

January 2022: Attributive Adjectives in Spanish and French: Early multilingual acquisition and syntactic variation. 1st Workshop within the framework of the DFG-Network Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax. Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).

September 2021: Family language policies and family language in early bilingualism: language competence and language use in child-parent-interactions. Second International Symposium on Family Language Policy, Paris. Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar.

June 2021: On null subjects in the acquisition of French by trilingual children. Romance Turn 2020, University of Ibiza (Spain). Together with J. Stahnke & N. Müller.

June 2021: The early acquisition of third-person direct object clitics: Are Spanish and Catalan subject to cross-linguistic influence in multilingual children? Romance Turn 2020, University of Ibiza (Spain). Together with A. Jiménez-Gaspar and N. Müller.

February 2021 [postponed]: Preverbal, postverbal and null-subjects in Spanish: Comparing multilingual speaker groups and methods. Hispanistentag, Universität Graz (Österreich). Together with J. Stahnke, J. Cadórniga Martínez, A. Jiménez-Gaspar, N. Müller, E. Scalise und A. Sivakumar.

*January 2021: Age of Onset, Language Dominance and dialectal Variation: Catalan copula Selection in locative Contexts with (non-)eventive Subjects. Research colloquium, Romance linguistics, Universität Hamburg (Germany).