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Tuesday, 5.7.2016
| Time | Title | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Opening | Roger Hawkins, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences |
| 10:00-11:00 | Brain signatures of L1 attrition: Evidence from event-related potentials abstract slides |
Karsten Steinhauer |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Prepositions in Western Icelandic: Evidence from map task data abstract slides |
Nicole Dehé |
| 11:45-12:15 | Language attrition in multilingual development: An Austrian perspective abstract slides |
Ulrike Jessner & Manon Megens |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch and posters | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Attrition profiles: What CDST can and can’t tell us about attrition abstract slides |
Conny Opitz |
| 14:30-15:00 | The Role of L1 Literacy in Language Maintenance Among Immigrant Adolescents abstract slides |
Elena Schmitt |
| 15:00-15:30 | Error Rates in L1 Attriters: The Impact of Age at Emigration and of Continued L1 Use abstract slides |
Rasmus Steinkrauss & Monika S. Schmid |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Aging attriters: how methodological challenges can help construct bilingual theories abstract slides |
Merel Keijzer |
| 17:15-18:30 | Reception |
Wednesday, 6.7.2016
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00-10:00 | Language Attrition and Intergenerational Transmission | Silvina Montrul |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Language Attrition in Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Longitudinal Evidence from Preschoolers
abstract slides |
Annick De Houwer, Mark H. Bornstein & Diane Putnick |
| 10:45-11:15 | Language attrition and reactivation in childhood. A case study | Cristina Flores |
| 11:15-11:45 | L1 attrition in a multidialectal setting: Input and Intake in L1 Spanish null and postverbal subjects | Glyn Hicks & Laura Dominguez |
| 11:45-12:15 | An investigation of maturational constraints for L1 attrition: L1 attainment of Turkish-English bilinguals in the UK
abstract slides |
Tugba Karayayla & Monika S. Schmid |
| 12:15-12:45 | Investigating L1 attrition effects in Sylheti-English bilinguals from the London Bengali community
abstract slides |
Kathleen McCarthy & Esther de Leeuw |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch and posters | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Investigating the neurocognitive correlates of L1 attrition: Changes in morphosyntactic processing | Kristina Kasparian, Francesco Vespignani & Karsten Steinhauer |
| 14:30-15:00 | Gender in second language acquisition and first language attrition: an EEG study | Monika S. Schmid, Sanne M. Berends, Christopher Bergmann, Susanne Brouwer, Nienke Meulman, Bregtje Seton, Simone Sprenger & Laurie A. Stowe |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Conflict and attrition between languages and neural consequences
abstract slides |
Jubin Abutalebi |
| 19:00- | Conference dinner |
Thursday, 7.7.2016
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00-10:00 | The consequences of native language regulation for bilingualism and second language learning | Judith Kroll |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15-10:45 | L1 Tone attrition among bilinguals in an L2 speaking environment
abstract slides |
Xiangjie Cao |
| 10:45-11:15 | Immigrants’ speech: is phonetic attrition a necessary precondition for phonological attrition to occur? | Rosalba Nodari, Chiara Celata & Naomi Nagy |
| 11:15-11:45 | Adaptation or attrition? L1 rhoticity in American English-German late bilinguals
abstract slides |
Marie-Christin Himmel & Barış Kabak |
| 11:45-12:15 | Gradient strength of NPIs in Greek attriters
abstract slides |
Anastasios Chatzikonstantinou, Polyxeni Pata & Douglas Saddy |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch and posters | |
| 14:00-15:00 | On the state of the art in language attrition research
abstract slides |
Monika S. Schmid & Barbara Köpke |
| 15:00-15:30 | Closing |
The following submissions have been accepted for a poster presentation at ICLA3:
Transfer of metacognitive reading comprehension strategies in Brazilian Portuguese and in English as a second language
Diane Blank Bencke & Lilian Cristine Hubner
I am not an immigrant, but I still lose my L1: What is lost?
Kiranmayi Nallan Chakravarthi
Individual L1 attrition: Permanent or temporary changes in speakers’ native language?
Gloria Chamorro, Antonella Sorace & Patrick Sturt
The impact of language choice on L1 use and maintenance: The case of Tunisian bilingual speakers
Leila Chargui
The significance of z-scores in language attrition
Marco Chowdhury
Restructuring of L1 competence in Spanish-French late bilinguals: the case of semantic extensions
Lyanne Ahumada Ebratt & Barbara Köpke
Interpersonal Variation in Late L1 Attrition and Its Implications for the Competence/Performance Debate
Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
Attrition at the syntax-discourse interface: the case of heritage speakers of Greek in Chile
Aretousa Giannakou
Effects of attrition on the acquisition of the classifier structure in Cantonese
Rachel Ting Yan Kan
A longitudinal investigation into L1 attrition in Steffi Graf
Esther de Leeuw & Monika Schmid
The attrition of French as a foreign languae (FFL): the case of Greek learners
Kleopatra Mytara, Barbara Köpke & Olga Theophanous
Ab initio language learning and the summer break
Conny Opitz & Sarah Smyth
Cognitive fluency and problem-solving mechanisms in the context of third language attrition
Sandra Reitbrecht
Language Attrition 