Working Memory Resources in Language Processing and Acquisition

Programma:

9:30 – 9:40              Introduction to the Workshop

9:40 – 10:30            Keynote Speaker:
Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University)
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10:30 – 11:00         Stephanie Durrleman and Anamaria Bentea (University of Geneva)
Memory Resources and the Processing of Abar Dependencies in Child French

11:00 – 11:15        Coffe break

11:15 – 11:45         Maria Varkanitsa (UCL), Dimitrios Kasselimis (University of Crete),
Ioannis Evdokimidis, Constantin Potagas (University of Athens),
Judit Druks (UCL) and Hans Van de Koot (UCL)

Working Memory and syntactic dependency resolution in Broca’s aphasia

11:45 – 12:15        Kazuko  Yatsushiro (ZAS ),
Uli Sauerland (ZAS/MIT) and Heather van der Lely (Harvard University)

Is SLI All About Memory? Evidence from Wh-Questions in German

12:15 – 12:45        Stéphanie Durrleman and Hélène Delage (University of Geneva)

SLI, dyslexia, autism: How do their syntactic profiles relate to working memory?

12:45 – 13:15        Francesca Volpato (University of Ca’ Foscari)

Working memory and comprehension of relative clauses in cochlear-implanted and hearing children

13:15 – 13:30             General discussion

Alternates

Frank Domahs (University of Marburg)

The direction of word stress assignment in German: Evidence from a working memory paradigm

Hélène Delage and Ulrich Frauenfelder (University of Geneva)

How to link components of working memory and complex syntax in children with SLI?