Professor Tom Roeper has just returned from a trip to Germany which involved talks in Wuppertal, Dortmund, and Berlin.

In Wuppertal, he gave an invited talk at `The View from the Multilingual Child‘ on October 9. [Program: https://www.presse.uni-wuppertal.de/fileadmin/presse/news/2018/08/Multilingualism.pdf] Tom notes that two of the speakers at this conference [Juan Uriagareka and Pieter Muysken taught at UMass] and two others were visitors [Leah Bauke and Petra Schulz].

In Dortmund, he gave a lecture on October 11 at Dortmund University on `From Recursion to Pragmatics: Challenges to Acquisition Theory‘.

And in Berlin, Professor Roeper was at ZAS where he worked with Nadine Balbach on children’s acquisition of the presuppositional meaning of but and with Artemis Alexiadou and Kazuko Yatsushiro on the acquisition of nominalization. While in Berlin, he contacted Hristo Kyuchukov (University of Silesia) who works with refugee communities in and around Berlin and was a former visitor to our department. Professor Roeper is interested in developing experiments that will involve children growing up in these highly multilingual communities.