The OCP18 will take place entirely as a virtual event. The time zone of OCP18 is Central European Standard Time (GMT+1)


Wednesday 27

11-11:30           Welcome remarks


Session 1:

Chair               Ingo Feldhausen (Université de Lorraine & ATILF-CNRS)
Technical assistants: Esperança Colom and Dídac Martorell (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

11:30-12          The children’s use of tactile and visual information (vs. acoustic information) when learning non-native phonological contrastsNúria Esteve-Gibert, Maria del Mar Suárez, Olena Vasylets, Sara Feijoo and Raquel Serrano

12-12:30          Bridging the gap between prosody and pragmatics: Preschoolers’ prosodic profiles and Theory of Mind abilitiesMariia Pronina, Iris Hübscher, Ingrid Vilà-Giménez and Pilar Prieto

12:30-13          Predicting children’s narrative structure: The value of non-referential beat gestures and their concomitant prosodic prominence in spontaneous interactionsIngrid Vilà-Giménez, Natalie Dowling, Ece Demir-Lira, Pilar Prieto and Susan Goldin-Meadow

13-13:30          Discussion

Breakout room 1 Esteve-Gibert et al.

Breakout room 2 Mariia Pronina et al.

Breakout room 3 Vilà-Giménez et al.

13:30-15          Lunch


Session 2:

Chair                 Maria del Mar Vanrell (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Tecnhical assistants: Pere Garau and Josep Ramon Santiago (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

15-15:30           The processing of Italian nuclear and non-nuclear accents by L1-German-L2-Italian listenersJacopo Torregrossa, Diana Kolev, Martine Grice and Petra Schumacher

CANCELLED      Determiners at the phonology-syntax interface in bilingual first language acquisition of Romance languagesJohanna Stahnke

15:30-16           Referent’s information status, pitch accentuation, and gestural marking in children’s narratives: a longitudinal perspective. Júlia Florit-Pons, Ingrid Vilà-Giménez, Patrick Louis Rohrer and Pilar Prieto

16-16:30           Prosody as the main cue to differentiate wh-in-situ questions in acquisitionAn Nguyen, William Howe and Geraldine Legendre

16:30-17           Coffee break

Breakout room 1 Torregrossa et al.

Breakout room 2 Florit-Pons et al.

Breakout room 3 Nguyen et al.

Chair                 Anna Gavarró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

17-18                 Invited speaker: The acquisition of prosodic focus marking from a cross-linguistic perspective. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői

18-18:30           Discussion

Breakout room 1 Szendrői