Tanja Kupisch
I am researcher at the Centre of Language and Literature (SOL), working primarily in various areas of language acquisition (L1, L2, bilingualism and attrition). My research is concerned with the languages French, Italian, English, German, and Turkish.
I also hold a position as Junior Professor in French and Italian linguistics at the University of Hamburg, where I teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in general linguistics and language acquisition and supervise BA, MA and PhD projects in these fields.
I have directed a research project on incomplete acquisition, language attrition and near-native L2-acquisition (German-French and German-Italian), and I am project investigator in the Research Cluster Linguistic Diversity Managaement in Urban Areas (LiMA) in Hamburg, where I investigate the acquisition of a third language by German-Turkish bilinguals.
I am currently working on definiteness effects, gender, genericity and foreign accent.
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Kupisch, T. 2006. The acquisition of determiners in bilingual German-Italian and German-French children. München: Lincom Europa.
Müller, N., T. Kupisch, K. Schmitz & K. Cantone. 2006. Einführung in die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung. Französisch, Italienisch. (=Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Francke.
JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)
White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagström, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özcelik. forthcoming. Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition: affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Kupisch, T. (under revision). Generic subjects in the Italian of early German-Italian bilinguals and German learners of Italian as a second language.
Snape, N. & T. Kupisch. 2010. Ultimate attainment of L2 articles: A case-study of an endstate L2 Turkish-English speaker. Second Language Research 26 (4), 527-548.
Cantone, K, N. Müller, K. Schmitz & T. Kupisch. 2008. Rethinking language dominance. Linguistische Berichte 215. 129-160.
Kupisch, T. 2008. Determinative, Individual- und Massennomen im Spracherwerb des Deutschen: Diskussion des Nominal Mapping Parameters. Linguistische Berichte 214.
Müller, N. & T. Kupisch. 2007. Acquisition des déterminants et des clitiques objet chez des enfants bilingues (français-allemand). AILE 25.
Radford, A., T. Kupisch, R. Köppe & G. Azzaro. 2007. Concord, Convergence and Crash-Avoidance in bilingual children. Bilingualism, Language, and Cognition 10 (3). 239-256.
Kupisch, T. 2007. Determiners in bilingual German-Italian children: What they tell us about the relation between language influence and language dominance. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10 (1). 57-78.
Müller, N & T. Kupisch. 2003. Zum simultanen Erwerb des Deutschen und des Französischen bei (un)ausgeglichen bilingualen Kindern. Vox Romanica 62. 145-169.
Müller, N., K. Cantone, T. Kupisch & K. Schmitz. 2002. Zum Spracheneinfluss im bilingualen Erstspracherwerb: Italienisch–Deutsch. Linguistische Berichte 190. 157-206.
Kupisch, T., N. Müller & K. Cantone. 2002. Gender in Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Comparing Italian and French. Lingue e Linguaggio 1. 107-149.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (REVIEWED)
White, L. A. Belikova, P. Hagström, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özcelik. forthcoming. There arent't many difficulties with definiteness. Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian Speakers. GALANA 4 proceedings (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America).
Belikova, A., P. Hagström, T. Kupisch, Ö. Özcelik & L. White. 2010. Definiteness in positive and negative existentials in the L2 of Russian speakers. J. Costa, A. Castro, M. Lobo & F. Pratas, Proceedings of Gala 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 28-38.
Kupisch, T. & C. Pierantozzi. 2010. Interpreting Definite Plural Subjects: A Comparison of German and Italian Monolingual and Bilingual Children. In K. Franich, K.M. Iserman & L. L. Keil, 34th Boston University Conference of Language Development. Boston, MA (USA), 245-254.
White, L. , A. Belikova, P. Hagström, T. Kupisch & Ö. Özcelik. 2009. Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord & G.-M. Rheiner (eds), 33rd Boston University Conference of Language Development. Boston, MA (USA). 622-633.
Belikova, A., T. Kupisch, Ö. Özçelik & E. Sadlier-Brown. 2009. Monosyllabic fillers as Protosyntactic devices: Evidence from a German-English bilingual child. In J. Crawford, K. Otaki & M. Takahashi, Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (Galana). 1-12.
Kupisch, T. 2008. Cross-linguistic influence from stronger to weaker language in unbalanced bilingual development. In H. Chan, H. Jacob & E. Kaia (eds), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press, 251-262.
Kupisch, T., U. Bohnacker, M. Anderssen & N. Snape. 2008. Article acquisition in German, English, Norwegian and Swedish, In Proceedings of the Georgetown University Round Table of Linguistics. 358-373.
Kupisch, T. & P. Bernardini. 2007. Determiner use in Italian-Swedish and Italian-German bilinguals: A challenge for parameter setting models. In M. Anderssen & M. Westergaard, Nordlyd. Tromsø University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics 34 (3).
Kupisch, T & E. Rinke. 2007. A fresh look at root infinitives from a cross-linguistic perspective: In M. Anderssen & M. Westergaard, Nordlyd. Tromsø University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics 34 (3).
Kupisch, T. 2005. Acceleration in bilingual first language acquisition. In T. Gaerts, I. v. Ginneken & H. Jacobs (eds), Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003. Selected Papers from Going Romance 2003. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 183-203.
Kupisch, T. 2004. On the relation between input frequency and acquisition patterns from a cross-linguistic perspective. In J. van Kampen & S. Baauw (eds.), Proceedings of GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition). LOT Occasional Series 3. 199-210.
Kupisch, T. 2003. Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of determiners by German-Italian bilinguals. In B. Beachley, A. Brown & F. Conlin (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla. 461-472.
BOOK CHAPTERS/ARTIICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES
Stöhr, A., D. Akpinar, G. Bianchi & T. Kupisch. forthcoming. Gender marking in Italian-German heritage speakers and L2-learners of German. Ms., Delaware/Hamburg/Lund. (submitted to K. Braunmueller & C. Gabriel (eds), Multilingual Individuals Multilingual Societies (MIMS). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Kupisch, T. & E. Rinke. 2011. The diachronic development of article-possessor complementarity in the history of Italian and Portuguese. In P. Siemund (ed), Linguistic Universals and Language Variation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter..
Kupisch, T. & N. Müller. 2009. Relating Italian articles and clitic object pronouns in bilingual children acquiring German and Italian. C. Dimroth & P. Jordens (eds), Functional Categories in Learner Language. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 307-342.
Kupisch, T. 2008. Dominance, mixing, and cross-linguistic influence: On their relation in bilingual development. P. Guijarro-Fuentes, P. Larrañaga & J. Clibbens (eds.), First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across Languages and Learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 209-234.
Kupisch, T. 2007. Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian. In I. Gülzow & N. Gagarina (eds), Proceedings of the workshop on input frequencies in acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter: SOLA Series. 83-113.
Kupisch, T. & C. Koops. 2007 The definite article in non-specific noun phrases: comparing French and Italian. In E. Stark, E. Leiss & W. Abraham (eds), Nominal Determination. Typology, context constraints and historical emergence [Studies in Language Companion Series]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 187-210.
Müller, N., K. Schmitz, K. Cantone & T. Kupisch. 2006. Null-arguments in monolingual children: A comparison of Italian and French. In V. Torrens & L. Escobar (eds.), The Romance Turn. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Kupisch, T. 2006. The emergence of article forms and functions in a German-Italian bilingual child. In C. Lleó (ed.), Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition, Representation and Processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 45-109.
Kupisch., T. 2003. The DP, a vulnerable domain? Evidence from the acquisition of French. In N. Müller (ed.) (In)vulnerable Domains in Bilingualism. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-39.
BOOK REVIEWS
Kupisch, T. 2009. The Bilingual Child. Virginia Yip & Stephen Matthews. First Language 29 (3). 443-449.
EDITED BOOKS
Rinke, E. & T. Kupisch. 2011. (eds), Grammatical Development: Language Acquisition and Diachronic Change - Volume in honor of Jürgen M. Meisel. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 420 pages.
NON_REFEREED ARTICLES (manuscripts available)
Kupisch, T. & D. Barton. 2011. How bilinguals deal with variation: Generic reference in adult German bilinguals. (submitted to Special Issue of Studia Linguistica)
Kupisch, T., D. Akpinar & A. Stöhr. Under review. Gender assignment and gender agreement in adult bilingual and second language speakers of French. Ms, University of Hamburg/Lund University/University of Delaware.
Kupisch, T. & G. Bianchi. 2011. Critical periods for language acquisition and language loss: A case study of adjective placement in Italian-German bilinguals and second language learners. Ms, University of Hamburg.
Kupisch, T., D. Barton, G. Bianchi & I. Stangen. Under review. The HABLA-Corpus (German-French and German-Italian). Submitted to T. Schmidt & K. Wörner (eds), Multlingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Eaton, S., T. Kupisch, E. Dewey & C. Fouqueray. 2007. Annotated bibliography on literacy in children.
Kupisch, T. & E. Rinke. 2006. Italienische und portugiesische Possessivpronomina im diachronischen Vergleich: Determinanten oder Adjektive? Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachig-keit.
Kuchenbrandt, I., T. Kupisch & E. Rinke. 2005. Pronominal objects in Romance: Comparing French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish, Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit 67. 1-43.
Kupisch, T. 2001. The acquisition of the DP in French as the weaker language. Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit 31. 1-34.
Müller, N., K. Cantone & K. Schmitz. 2001. Das mehrsprachige Kind: Italienisch – Deutsch. Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit 16.
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
INVITED
2010. The weaker language in simultaneously bilingual adults (German-Italian). Språkinlärningsseminariet, Språk- och Litteraturcentrum, Lund University (Sweden).
2010. Bilingual acquisition in the context of dialectal variation: A study of genericity. The Acquisition of Variation. Workshop at CASTL, Tromsö (Norway).
2010. Childhood acquisition and ultimate attainment in simultaneous bilinguals. Gunma Prefectural University (Japan).
2010. Generic subjects in simultaneously bilingual adults (Italian-German). Workshop on Language Dominance, Wuppertal (Germany).
2008. Input frequency in language acquisition. Språk- och Litteraturcentrum, Lund University (Sweden).
2008. Object omission in German-English bilingual children, April 30th, Workshop on Workshop on Null Arguments and Clitics: Theory and Acquisition, University of Toronto (Canada).
2008. Semantisch motivierte DP-Projektionen. February 1st, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg (Germany).
2007. From Nominal mapping to Prosodic Bootstrapping, December 14th. McGill Colloquium, Montréal (Canada), December 2008.
2006. Seminar on the acquisition of determiners from a cross-linguistic and bilingual view, November 16, University of Tromsø (Norway).
2006. Nominal Mapping in bilingual first language acquisition. November 15, CASTL Colloquium, University of Tromsø (Norway).
2006. Semantic nodes in DP structure and the autonomy of syntax, June 2, Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam (Holland).
2006. Syntax and semantics in the acquisition of the DP: What child data may tell us about modularity, January 18, Department of Scandinavian Languages, University of Lund (Sweden).
2005. On autonomy, influence and dominance in bilingual acquisition, October 5, Department of Romance Languages, University of Lund (Sweden).
2005. What determiners tell us about influence and dominance in bilingual acquisition, March 18, University of Toronto (Canada).
2005. Empirical course work in linguistics: Advantages and Challenges, March 17, University of Toronto at Mississauga (Canada).
2002. Determiners and accusative clitics in Romance: Toward a model of their acquisition among early bilinguals, November 8, French and Italian Departmental Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin (USA).
CONFERENCES (2010 and 2011)
Kupisch, T., D. Barton, K. Hailer, T. Lein, T. Kupisch & Il. Stangen. 2011. Foreign accent in adult simultaneous bilinguals? EUROSLA (European Second Language, Stockholm (Sweden).
Stangen, I., D. Akpinar & T. Kupisch. 2011. Article omission in Turkish-German learners of English as a third language. Accepted for the Seventh International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Warsaw (Poland).
Kupisch, T., D. Akpinar, A. Belikova, P. Hagström, Ö. Ozçelik, I. Stangen & L. White. 2011. Language differentiation and knowledge of the DE in adult German-Turkish bilinguals. International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB 8), Oslo (Norway).
Kupisch, T. & D. Barton. 2011. Evaluating dominance measures for adult bilingual speakers. Symposium on Operationalising and measuring language dominance at the International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB 8), Oslo (Norway).
Kupisch, T., G. Bianchi & I. Stangen. 2010. Adjective placement in German-French and German-Italian heritage speakers, XII Colóquio de Outono, Braga (Portugal).
Bianchi, G., T. Kupisch, D. Akpinar & A. Stöhr. 2010. Gender marking in Italian-German heritage speakers. Conference on Mutilingual Individuals and Mutilingual Societies. Hamburg Germany.
Kupisch, T. & I. Stangen. 2010. Vulnerable domains in heritage speakers and second language learners. 7. Frankoromanistentag, Essen (Germany).
Barton, D., G. Bianchi, T. Kupisch & A. Stöhr. 2010. Complete and incomplete acquisition at Interfaces. Talk at the Workshop on Incomplete acquisition and language attrition in bilingual settings. Hamburg (Germany).
Kupisch, T., D. Barton & G. Bianchi. 2010. Genericity and cross-linguistic influence in adult German-French and German-Italian bilinguals. Galana (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America). Toronto (Canada).
White, L., A. Belikova, P. Hagström, T. Kupisch & Ö. Ozçelik. 2010. There aren't many difficulties with definiteness. Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers. Galana (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America). Toronto (Canada).
Snape, N. & T. Kupisch. 2010. Ultimate attainment of L2 articles: A case-study of an endstate L1 Turkish – L2 English speaker. J-SLA (The Japan Second Language Association), Gifu (Japan).
Stöhr, A., D. Akpinar & T. Kupisch. 2010. Gender in French Heritage Speakers and Adult Second Language Learners. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Hamburg.
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