VI International Congress on Language Acquisition

It took place in Barcelona on September 8, 9 and 10, 2010.

During the congress, Dr. Ruth Berman and Dr. Dan Slobin were named Honorary Members of the association.

The congress website can be consulted at: http://stel3.ub.edu/cial2010/es/academico

The organizing committee was:

  • Co-chair: Liliana Tolchinsky (Universitat de Barcelona)
  • Co-chair: Aurora Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Members
    • Melina Aparici (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    • Joaquim Arnau (Universitat de Barcelona)
    • Joan Perera (Universitat de Barcelona)
    • Carme Pérez-Vidal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    • Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    • Elisa Rosado (Universitat de Barcelona)
    • Mònica Sanz-Torrent (Universitat de Barcelona)
    • Elisabet Serrat (Universitat de Girona)
    • Olga Soler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

The invited speakers were:

  • Ruth Berman, Emeritus professor, Tel Aviv University. “The Frog Story in Basque, Catalan, Galician, sign language, Spanish and pathology: The contributions of translinguistic research to the study of language development “”
  • Dan Slobin, Emeritus professor, University of Berkeley. “The Frog Story in Basque, Catalan, Galician, sign language, Spanish and pathology: The contributions of translinguistic research to the study of language development “.
  • Naama Friedman, Tel Aviv University. “On the syntactic impairment in SLI”
  • John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania. “Taking control of parsing: The relationship between child sentence processing and cognitive control”

The scientific commitee was composed of:

  • Andoni Barreña (Universidad de Salamanca)
  • Rosa Ana Clemente (Universitat Jaume I)
  • Eliseo Diez Itza (Universidad de Oviedo)
  • Raquel Fernández Fuertes (Universidad de Valladolid)
  • Miguel Galeote (Universidad de Málaga)
  • Virginia Gathercole (Bangor University)
  • Itziar Idiazabal (Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea)
  • Donna Jackson Maldonado (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro)
  • Harriet Jisa (Université de Lyon)
  • Juana M. Liceras (University of Ottawa)
  • Conxita Lleó (Universität Hamburg)
  • Susana López Ornat (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  • María Ángeles Mayor (Universidad de Salamanca)
  • Jürgen Meisel (Universität Hamburg)
  • Gary Morgan (City University London)
  • Terezinha Nunes (Oxford Brookes University)
  • Miguel Pérez Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
  • Joana Rosselló (Universitat de Barcelona)
  • Cristina Sanz (Georgetown University)
  • Miquel Serra (Universitat de Barcelona)
  • Marta Shiro (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
  • Rosa Solé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)