Conference Information

Full Title:	The Road Less Travelled

Location:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Start Date:	26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012
Contact:	Olivia Marasco
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting URL:	http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html
Meeting Description:	Heritage languages are the ancestral languages of speakers immersed in a dominant language environment. This international interdisciplinary conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition consists of plenaries and short format presentations treating current research on the following topics: heritage language sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, acquisition, linguistic analysis, and education. Additional events include sessions on students’ language histories, and a conversation with Toronto writers Ricardo Sternberg and Martha Batiz, Poets in exile: The language I write in. Invited Speakers Terry Au, University of Hong Kong Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto Maria Polinsky, Harvard University Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary
Linguistic Subfield:	Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
LL Issue:	23.4045


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