On May 14, at 1:30 pm (Spanish time) will be the sixteenth research seminar Irie: Grammatical Development in Early Multilingualism: Evidence from Heritage Russian in Spain by Anastasiia Ogneva . The seminar will be carried out electronically through the Zoom platform.
About the speaker:
Anastasiia Ogneva is a linguist and doctor in psychology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher Marie Skłodowska-Curie at the UIT-The Arctic University of Norway and an assistant doctor in the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His research focuses on how bilingual children acquire and process language, with special attention to morphosyntactic structures, such as grammatical genre. He has published several articles and chapters that deal with children's language, the acquisition of second languages and linguistic development in premature children, and has presented his work at international congresses. In addition to language processing and acquisition, their research interests include language disorders (TEL/TDL) and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Seminar summary:
Recent research emphasizes the need for a deeper understanding of linguistic competence and its development in bilingualism and multilingualism in inheritance languages. Inheritance languages speakers ( Heritage Speakers , HSS) have a wide range of language skills, influenced by various experiences. The Multilingual Acquisition and Processing Project (MAP): Russian inheritance in Spain explores Russian grammar as a language of inheritance (Le) in the Spanish sociolinguistic context, which is poorly studied, focusing on the early and unstable stages of multilingual development and on the patterning patterns of interaction. MAP investigates how children from 5 to 10 years old acquire and process language, in particular how they use grammatical knowledge in development and access the morphosyntactic mechanisms of the two coexisting languages, Russian and Spanish. The study includes production and processing tasks designed to examine the effects of linguistic proximity, experiential factors, and inter -linguistic influence. This presentation describes the methodological framework of the MAP project and shares the preliminary findings. In theory, MAP promotes models of grammar of inheritance language and contributes to research on the acquisition of inheritance languages on considering both minority and majority languages. At the social level, the findings will support educational strategies based on evidence and inform relevant policies for the communities of inheritance speakers throughout Europe. By approaching an existing crack in bilingualism studies, MAP offers a crucial perspective on the mechanisms of early multilingualism development.
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