In the earlier study “Code-Switching and Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, we present a unified account language use multilingual communities using key insight OPTIMIZATION to capture variations between communities. This paper explores extensions implications our optimality-theoretic model grammars. We provide evidence indicating that vast array empirical facts bilingual (code...

Several investigations report a positive effect of childhood bilingualism on executive control (EC). An issue that has remained largely unexamined is the role of the typological distance between the languages spoken by bilinguals. In the present study we focus on children who grow up with Cypriot Greek and Standard Modern Greek, two closely related varieties that differ from each other on all l...

For a long time categorial grammars were regarded as "toys grammars". Indeed, in spite of a very solid theoretical base, categorial grammars remain rather marginal as soon as it is a question of conceiving concrete applications. However, this model of grammars has an unquestionable advantage compared to the majority of the other grammatical models: it is multilingual; multilingualism becoming, ...

08:30 – 09:30 Registration 09:30 – 10:15 Conference Opening • Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez, Vice-rector of cooperation, international relations and multilingualism, at the University Jaume I • Crhistian Berger-Vachon, General Secretary of AMSE 10:15 – 11:15 Modeling and Simulation in CSR (1) 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 12:30 Modeling and Simulation in CSR (2) 12:30 – 13:45 Lunch 13:45 – 14:...

1 Introduction The work to be presented here was carried out in the project Multilingual Support for