Happy final day of #GALA15FFM! See you all in IG-Farben-Haus at 9:30 for our first parallel sessions.

Starting in 15 minutes, we’re rounding out the program in IG 311 with a session on phonological acquisition. Sounds like fun, right? 👂🏼🗣️

Evan Zysman & William Snyder will be presenting some work on ellipsis, then Caterina Tasinato & Emanuela Sanfelici will too. Tune in for more in IG 411 at 9:30 AM! #gala15ffm

Rowena Garcia and Natalie Boll-Avetisyan shared corpus findings regarding the type and token frequency of CCV clusters in adult- vs. infant-directed speech in Russian and German. Pretty striking results!

Babies can’t climb trees… or can they? 🤔 In the case of syntactic trees, the answer is yes! Find out how in our fourth and final plenary talk by Naama Friedmann🎗️, today at 11:30!

Kangzheng Gao (IG 411) and Miguel Meira & Elaine Grolla (IG 311) are currently presenting for our last parallel session of #gala15ffm

Age is not necessarily a good predictor of language abilities; however, the progression through stages is quite uniform! Naama Friedmann🎗️, Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi have crafted a convincing explanation of these findings based on the cartographic framework.

That’s a wrap on #gala15ffm! Thank you to all the participants for such a great three days. See you in Lisbon for GALA16!

We took the opportunity after closing remarks to present the Best Student Presentation awards and to thank our two fearless leaders Petra Schulz and Esther Rinke for their tireless efforts organizing #GALA15FFM. None of this would have been possible without your dedication ❤️

Did you know that deaf🧏 children with cochlear implants or hearing aids may not perceive (and thus produce) certain German tense markers due to the differing frequencies of /s/, /t/, and /n/? Martina Penke shared her team’s findings at our second poster session of #gala15ffm.

We loved to see this blue square poster on Friday at #gala15ffm, with findings from Lydia Grohe’s PhD research on adjective ordering preferences.

If I were you, I’d be glad we got the chance to see Ailis Cournane and Ioana Grosu’s poster on event mutability and counterfactuals last week at #gala15ffm

Plenary speaker Cristina Flores dazzled us all with findings from several studies on the longevity of verb placement constraints in various German-speaking populations at #gala15ffm. Thank you all for your helpful questions and comments!

Catching up with old friends and colleagues was one of our favorite things about #gala15ffm. Who did you most enjoy seeing? 👀 What kind of discussions did you have?

Does anyone else feel like #gala15ffm was over too soon? 😭 Here’s a throwback to our second poster session last week for those who empathize 💕 #ThrowbackThursday #languageacquistion

Plenary speaker Jacopo romoli gave a thought-provoking presentation on the semantics of free choice last week at #gala15ffm. Looking forward to seeing the continuation of his work and its implications for acquisition theory!

It takes a lot to plan a conference, but #gala15ffm would not have been the success it was without the enthusiastic participation of all its audience members. Thank you all for your rapt attention, your lively discussions, and your contributions to #languageacquisition research

Plenary talk by Petra Schulz on the question "Which linguistic phenomena are difficult and for whom?" at the workshop "Advanced Language Acquisition" at the University of Oldenburg.

What predicts comprehension of temporal conjunctions in bilingual children? Age of onset, length of exposure, or something else? These questions are part of the talk by Christos Makrodimitris, Petra Schulz & Ianthi Tsimpli at #BUCLD47.

We're happy to announce the third talk for today by Merle Weicker. Merle Weicker will talk to us about "The construal of telicity: Experimental evidence from adjectival resultatives in German". #WONDo22