CONFERENCE ON THE ACQUISITION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Location of the meetings: The venue for the conference is Room 229 in the Arts building, on the corner of Merriman Avenue and Ryneveld Street, # 66 on the campus map.Parking: There will be enough parking around the Arts building. We will arrange with security at the Crozier Street entrance to open the gate for delegates attending the AAL conference.
Programme
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DAY ONE (21st January)
RESEARCH ON ACQUISITION
RESEARCH ON ACQUISITION
| 08:30 | Opening and Welcome |
| 09:00 | Introductory Remarks by Prof DS Gxilishe (University of Cape Town) |
| 09:30 | Taelo Qhala and Francina Moloi (University of Lesotho, Lesotho) and Katherine Demuth (Brown University, USA) The acquisition of Sesotho infinitival morphology. |
| 10:00 | Francina Moloi (University of Lesotho, Lesotho) and Katherine Demuth (Brown University, USA)
The acquisition of Sesotho causatives. |
| 10:30 | Jean Crawford and William Snyder (University of Connecticut, USA) On the relationship between causatives and applicatives: evidence from child Sesotho. |
| 11:00 | TEA |
| 11:30 | Melissa Bortz (University of Witwatersrand, RSA) The acquisition of the passive in Tswana-speaking children. |
| 12:00 | Maggie Tshule (University of Witwatersrand, RSA) Setswana-speaking three- to five-year-old childrenŐs comprehension and production of questions. |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 | Denis Bukuru (University of Burundi, Burundi) Some observations on early acquisition of verb morphology by Kirundi-speaking children between 12 to 36 months. |
| 14:30 | Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawaii, USA) Subject agreement in indicative and subjunctive clauses: the acquisition of Swahili. |
| 15:00 | TEA |
| 15:30 | Britta Zawada (University of South Africa, RSA) The lexical and conceptual development of pre-school children: implications for the study of African languages. |
| 16:00-16:45 | Invited Address Prof Neville Alexander (University of Cape Town) The African Renaissance and the African Academy of Languages. A New Era for African languages. |
DAY TWO (22nd January)
APPLICATIONS
APPLICATIONS
| 09:00 | Mantoa Rose Smouse (University of Cape Town) Childhood bilingualism: A study of the morphology and syntax of a Sesotho-English bilingual child. |
| 09:30 | Sandile Gxilishe (University of Cape Town, RSA), Claire Denton-Spalding, Peter de Villiers, and Jill de Villiers (Smith College, USA) Towards the development of norms for the acquisition of Xhosa as a first language. |
| 10:00 | GENERAL DISCUSSION ABOUT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON ACQUISITION led by Prof Jill de Villiers (Smith College) |
| 10:30 | TEA |
| 11:00 | Sithembinkosi Dube (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) Observations on the developmental patterns of phonology in an Ndebele-speaking child with phonological disorders: implications for speech remediation. |
| 11:30 | Nombulelo Constance Zwane, Manono Angeline Mdluli and Paula Gains (The Molteno Project, Braamfontein, RSA) 33 years of early literacy development in 48 African languages--challenges, rewards andÉ still learning after all these years. |
| 12:00 | Daleen Klop (Stellenbosch University, RSA) Comparison of the narratives of lower socio-economic Afrikaans speaking preshool children following two different shared reading intervention approaches. |
| 12.30 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide (University of South Africa, RSA) Polyglotta. |
| 14.30 | Henriette Langdon and Gloria Weddington (San Jose State University, USA) The role of the interpreter/translator in the field of speech and language pathology. |
| 15:00 | TEA |
| 15.30-16.30 | WRAP-UP DISCUSSION--WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? led by Prof. Peter de Villiers (Smith College) |