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Prof. Dr. Cornelia Hamann
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Books and Monographs
Hamann, Cornelia (1982): Adjektivkomplementierung und andere Aspekte der Grammatik des Englishen Adjektivs. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Freiburg.
Hamann, Cornelia (1992): Late Empty Subjects in German Child Language. Technical Reports in Formal and Computational Linguistics, No.4. University of Geneva.
Powers, Susan and Cornelia Hamann (eds.) (2000): The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticisation.Kluwer, Dordrecht.
Hamann, Cornelia (2002): From Syntax to Discourse: Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects, and Infinitives in Child Language. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
Grimm, Angela, Anja Müller, Cornelia Hamann and Esther Ruigendijk (eds.) (2011): Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language. Sola. De Gruyter/Mouton, Berlin.
Hamann, Cornelia and Esther Ruigendijk (eds.) (2015): Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of Gala 2013. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Di Domenico, Elisa, Hamann, Cornelia and Simona Matteini (eds.) (2015): Structures, strategies and beyond. Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell series.
Articles
Hamann, Cornelia (1987): The Awesome Seeds of Reference Time. In: A. Schopf (ed): Essays on Tensing in English. Vol I. Reference Time, Tense and Adverbs. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1987. pp.27-69.
Hamann, Cornelia (1991b): Semantics and Pragmatics - the Case of Temporal Conjunctions. In:Linguistische Berichte 136/1991. pp. 403-437.
Hamann, Cornelia (1996): Null-Arguments in German Child Language. Language Acquisition 5:3. pp. 155-208.
Hamann, Cornelia (2003): Phenomena in French Normal and Impaired Language Acquisition and their Implications for Theories of Development. Probus 15, 89-120.
Hamann, Cornelia (2009): Parameters, Language Acquisition and Grammar Change. In: A. Kirchhofer and J. Schwarzkopf (eds.): The Workings of the Anglosphere: Contributions to the Study of British and US-American Cultures, Presented to Richard Stinshoff. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier.
Hamann, Cornelia (2011): Binding and Coreference: Views from Child Language. In: J. de Villers and T. Roeper (eds.): Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. Springer, Dordrecht, 247-290. Springer
Hamann, Cornelia (2012): Bilingual Development and Language Assessment. In: A.K. Biller, Chung, E. Y. and A. E. Kimball (eds.): Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 1-28.
Hamann, Cornelia (2014): Specific Language Impairment. Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Hamann, Cornelia (2014). Kiezdeutsch. Anmerkung zu einer affektgeladenen Debatte mit Rückgriff auf African American English. In: Paul Mecherli (ED.): Subjektbildungen. Interdisziplinäre Analysen der Migrationsgesellschaft. Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld. P. 239-249.
Hamann, Cornelia (2015): Language Impairment in German Children. In: Stavroula Stavrakaki (ed.): Specific Language Impairment. Current Trends in Research (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58). John Benjamins Publishing.
Hamann, Cornelia (2017): Phonological working memory and language development: What are the measures and what do they measure? Applied Psycholinguistics 38 (06), 1313-1321
Articles in Collaboration
Hamann, C., J. Nerbonne and R. Pietsch (1980): On the Semantics of Comparison. Linguistische Berichte 67/80,1-22.
Hamann, C., L. Rizzi and U. Frauenfelder (1996): On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French. In: H. Clahsen (ed): Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Hamann, C., O. Kowalski and W. Philip (1997): The French 'Delay of Principle B' Effect. BUCLD 21 proceedings. Cascadilla Press. Somerville, Mass, 205-219.
Hamann, C. and K. Plunkett (1998): Subjectless Sentences in Child Danish. Cognition 69, 35-72.
Hamann, C., M. Arabatzi, L. Baranzini, S. Cronel-Ohayon, L. Chillier, S. Dubé, J. Franck, U. Frauenfelder, L. Rizzi, M. Starke and P. Zesiger (2002): On the Dissociation of the Nominal and the Verbal Functional Domains in French Language Impairment. Proceedings of BUCLD 26. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, 267-277.
Franck, J., S. Cronel-Ohayon, L. Chillier, U. Frauenfelder, C. Hamann, L. Rizzi and P. Zesiger (2004): Normal and Pathological Development of Subject-Verb Agreement in Speech Production: A Study on French Children. Journal of Neurolinguistics 17, 147-180. ScienceDirect
Hamann, C. and A. Belletti (2006): Developmental Patterns in the Acquisition of Complement Clitic Pronouns: Comparing Different Acquisition Modes with an Emphasis on French. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 31 (appeared Jan 2008), 39-78.
Hamann, C., L. Tuller, C. Monjauze, H. Delage, and C. Henry (2007): (Un)successful Subordination in French-speaking Children and Adolescents with SLI. In: H. Caunt-Nutton, S. Kulatilake and I. Woo (eds):Proceedings of BUCLD 31. Cascadilla Press, Somerville.
Delage, H., C. Monjauze, C. Hamann, and L. Tuller, (2008): Relative Clauses in Atypical Acquisition of French. In: A. Gavarró and J. Freitas (eds): Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA2007, Barcelona. Cambrigde Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 166-176.
Hamann, Cornelia and Laurice Tuller: Genuine vs. pseudo-relatives in French: The depth of embedding factor. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa (2014) 36: 146-181.
Hamann, Cornelia and Laurice Tuller (2015): Intervention effects in the spontaneous production of relative clauses in (a)typical language development of French children and adolescents. In: Di Domenico, Elisa, Hamann, Cornelia and Simona Matteini (eds.) 2015: Structures, strategies and beyond. Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Lein, Tatjana, Hamann, Cornelia, Rothweiler, Monika, Abed Ibrahim, Lina, Solveig Chilla and Hilal San (2015): SLI in Bilinguals: Testing Complex Syntax and Semantics in German, In: Proceedings of Gasla 2015, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 124-135.
Hamann, Cornelia, and Abed Ibrahim, Lina, S. Chilla, N. Gagarina (2017): "Syntactic complexity and bilingualism: how (a)typical bilinguals deal with complex structures." E. Di Domenico (Hg.): Complexity in Acquisition, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142-178.
Abed Ibrahim, Lina, and Cornelia Hamann (2017): "Bilingual Arabic-German & Turkish-German children with and without specific language impairment: Comparing performance in sentence and nonword repetition tasks." M. LaMendola and J. Scott (Hg.): Proceedings of BUCLD 41, Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 1-17.
Lein, Tatjana, Rothweiler, Monika & Hamann, Cornelia (2017): "Factors affecting the performance in child heritage Portuguese in Germany." Jiyoung Choi, Hamida Demirdache, Oana Lungu, Laurence Voeltzel (Hg.): Proceedings of GALA 2015, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hamann Cornelia, Abed Ibrahim, Lina & Öwerdieck, David (2018): "Identifying specific language Impairment (SLI) across different bilingual populations: German sentence repetition task (SRT). In Proceedings of BUCLD 42. Somerville: Casscadilla Press, 1-14.
Hamann, Cornelia, Abed Ibrahim, Lina & István Fekete (2020): Language Assessment of Bilingual Arabic-German Heritage and Refugee Children: Comparing Performance on LITMUS Repetition Tasks. Proceedings of BUCLD 44. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 1–17.
Hamann, Cornelia, Chilla, Solveig, Abed Ibrahim, Lina & Fekete, István (2020): Language assessment tools for Arabic-speaking heritage and refugee children in Germany. Applied Psycholinguistics (2020), 1–40.
Öwerdieck, David, Hamann Cornelia & Abed Ibrahim, Lina (2021). Studying a Bilingual Population’s Production and Comprehension of Relative Clauses Longitudinally: Preliminary Results. In Proceedings of BUCLD 45. Somerville: Casscadilla Press.
Chilla, Solveig, Hamann, Cornelia: Sprachliche Heterogenität als Herausforderung und Chance für den inklusiven Fremdsprachenunterricht. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung 32: 1, 2021, S. 105-126.
To Appear
Abed Ibrahim, Lina, Lein, Tatjana, Rothweiler, Monika and Cornelia Hamann. SLI in Bilinguals: Comparing LITMUS-Tasks to a Standardized Test with Bilingual Norms.In: dos Santos. Proceedings of Bisli.
Chilla, Solveig, Hamann, Cornelia, Prévost, Phillipe, Abed Ibrahim, Lina, Ferré, Sandrine, dos Santos, Christophe, Zebib, Racha & Tuller, Laurice: The influence of different first languages on L2 LITMUS-NWR and L2 LITMUS-SRT in French and German: a crosslinguistic approach. In : Kleanthes Grohmann & Sharon Armon-Lotem (eds.), LITMUS in Action: Comparative Studies across Europe, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Selection of Talks
Syntax in the Third Year. University of Reading, March 2000.
Tense Semantics, CP and Language Impairment. University of Paris III. March 2000.
Typical Phenomena of Early French Syntax and of Language Impairment: Infinitives and Omission of Subjects, of Clitic Pronouns and Determiners. XXVII. Romanistentag München, October 2001.
On the Dissociation of the Nominal and the Verbal Functional Domains in French Language Impairment. Corinth, Euresco, Mai 2002.
What French Normal and Impaired Children Do with Functional Categories – and the Implications for Approaches to Language Development. BUCLD 27, Nov. 2002.
On the Production of Wh-Questions (normals and SLI) 2nd Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition, Universidade de Lisboa, June 2004.
The production of Wh-Questions in French Children with SLI, European Group for the Study of Child Language Disorders, Royaumont, May 2005.
Talk in the Framework of the Symposium on Wh-Questions, IASCL, Berlin, July 2005.
What the Production of Wh-Questions Can Tell Us About Early Syntax, GALA Siena, Sept. 2005.
Bilingual Development and Language Assessment. Cornelia Hamann. BUCLD, Boston, MA 2011.
Types of syntactic complexity: How typical and atypical bilinguals deal with complex structures. Cornelia Hamann. MORLANG, Perugia 2015.
Relative Clauses, Passives and Computational Complexity: From linguistic theory to the identification of impairments. Venice, March 2016.
Identifizierung von SSES in bilingualen Kontexten: Grammatische Grundlagen der Sprachdiagnostik oder Warum das Verb nicht flieht. Heidelberg, June 2017.
Methods for Identifying Specific Language Impairment in Bilinguals, Keynote. Experimental Psycholinguistics, Menorca, June 2017.
Identifying specific language impairment in bilinguals: A cross-country comparison of repetition tasks, University of Toronto, OISE, October 2017.
Bilingualism: Educational Policies and Linguistic Assessments, Erasmus exchange. Siena April 2018.
Standardized and newly designed language assessment, German-Canadian Workshop, Frankfurt, August 2018.
Stand 2019 (will be updated soon)
In Collaborations, Speaker
Delayed and Deviant Development in Young French Children with SLI. Together with S. Cronel-Ohayon, T. Deonna, S. Dubé, U. Frauenfelder, L. Rizzi, M. Starke and P. Zesiger. Decolage, Besançon, March, 2001.
Similarities and Differences in the Language Development of young L2/Bilingual Learners of French and French Children with Language Impairment with A. Belletti. DGfS Mannheim, February 2002.
Language Development in Young L2/Bilingual Learners of French and French Children with Language Impairment with A. Belletti. IASCL, Wisconsin, July 2002.
(Un)successful Subordination in French-Speaking Children and Adolescents with SLI. Together with L. Tuller, H. Delage, C.Henry & C. Monjauze. BUCLD, Boston 2006.
Relative Clauses in Atypical Acquisition of French with H. Delage, C. Monjauze & L. Tuller. GALA, Barcelona 2007.
The Interpretation of Pronouns and Reflexives. Evidence from German Kindergarten Children with E. Ruigendijk, C. Kolling & N. Friedmann. BUCLD, Boston 2007.
Linguistic Complexity and Speech Intelligibility with E. Ruigendijk, T. Brand & B. Kollmeier, Oldenburg 2008.
Computational Complexity, Clitics, and the Acquisition of French. Hommage à Celia Jakubowicz, 2009.
Language Production under Fluctuating Noise with M. Hanke, 2. NWLK, Bremen 2009.
DGfS Workshop on Comprehension/Production Asymmetries in Child Language. Focus on Pronominal System. Organization with Anja Müller, Angela Grimm & Esther Ruigendijk.
Article Use in L3 English by L1-Russian Speakers with German as L2. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB), Utrecht 2009.
The German Pronoun Puzzle, 2. NWLK, Bremen 2009. With E. Ruigendijk.
Sentence Production under Fluctuating Noise: Priming and Individual Differences. M. Hanke and C. Hamann. Edinburgh 2010.
Learning the Phonology of German: New Evidence for L2 Phoneme Perception, with D. Genevska-Hanke & R. Carroll. GALA, Thessaloniki 2011.
Production of Number Agreement in Adverse Conditions: Speech-Free Noise Interacts with Processing at the Formulation Stage with M. Hanke & E. Ruigendijk. AMLaP, Paris 2011.
Learning the Phonology of German: New Evidence for L2 Phoneme Perception with D. Genevska-Hanke & R. Carroll. International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo 2011.
Linguistic Theory and its application. Organization and introduction to Workshop. Cornelia Hamann with Adrianna Belletti. International Congress of Linguists, Geneva 2013.
Intervention effects in the acquisition of relative clauses - investigated cross-linguistically and with different experimental methods. Cornelia Hamann with Lina Abed Ibrahim. GIST, Ghent 2014.
Intervention effects in the spontaneous production of relative clauses in typical and atypical language development of French children and adolescents. Cornelia Hamann with Laurice Tuller. DGfS, Marburg 2014.
SLI in Bilinguals: Testing Complex Syntax and Semantics in German. Cornelia Hamann with Tatjana Lein, Monika Rothweiler, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Solveig Chilla and Hilal San. Gasla, Bloomington, Indiana 2015.
Sentence Repetition Tasks for Bilinguals with German as the Majority Language – language assessment and linguistic investigation. With the BiLaD-Team. Thematic Session at ISB 10, Rutgers University, May 2015.
Relative Clauses and Passives: What sentence repetition tasks across acquisition modes can reveal about linguistic theory. Talk held at the 10th ISB (International Symposium on Bilingualism). Hamann, Cornelia, Abed-Ibrahim, Lina, Solveig Chilla and Natalia Gagarina. New Jersey (USA), May 2015.
SLI in bilinguals: Comparing Cost tasks to a standardized test. Talk held at Bi-SLI (Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Conference). Lein, Tatjana, Hamann, Cornelia, Rothweiler, Monika, Abed Ibrahim, Lina, Solveig Chilla and Hilal San. Tours (France). July 2015.
Syntactic complexity, verbal working memory, and executive function in bilingual children with and without SLI : a sentence repetition study in France and in Germany. Rasha Zebib, Cornelia Hamann, Philippe Prévost,1Lina Abed Ibrahim, and Laurie Tuller. DgfS, Konstanz, February 2016.
Diagnostik von SSES bei Mehrsprachigkeit: Satzwiederholungsaufgaben und andere Erhebungsverfahren im Vergleich. Cornelia Hamann, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Solveig Chilla. ISES IX, Heidelberg, November 2016.
Diagnostik von SSES bei Mehrsprachigkeit: Satzwiederholungsaufgaben und andere Erhebungsverfahren im Vergleich. Cornelia Hamann, Lina Abed Ibrahim, Solveig Chilla. NWLK, Oldenburg, Dezember 2016.
How to identify SLI in Bilinguals? Comparing French and German, different tasks, and group assignment methods. Cornelia Hamann (and the BiLaD –Team). Siena 2017.
Syntactic complexity, verbal working memory, and executive function in bilingual children with and without SLI: French and German data. Hamann, Zebib, Prévost, Abed Ibrahim, & Tuller. Siena, March 2017.
Linguistic complexity and language impairment in bilingual children: Sentence repetition and non-word repetition in German. Cornelia Haman, Lina Abed Ibrahim and Marie Schnieders. Tours 2017.
(Un)typische Sprachentwicklung bei bilingualen Kindern, Symposium zum Spracherwerb unter besonderen Bedingungen. Cornelia Hamann and Solveig Chilla, Bremen, February 2018.
Identifying language impairment in bilingual children in France and in Germany. Philippe Prévost, Cornelia Hamann ( Laurie Tuller, Solveig Chilla, Sandrine Ferré, Eléonore Morin, Christophe dos Santos, Lina Abed Ibrahim and Racha Zebib). Bi-SLI II, University of Reading, June 2018.
Erwartungen und Wirklichkeit: Mehrsprachige Kinder und Jugendliche. Solveig Chilla and Cornelia Hamann. Fortbildung für Logopädinnen, Erzieherinnen und Lehrerinnen. Stolberg, June 2018.