LINGUIST List 23.359 Fri Jan 20 2012 Calls: Language Acquisition, General Linguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Barbara Pearson , Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language Message 1: Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language Date: 19-Jan-2012 From: Barbara Pearson <bpearsonresearch.umass.edu> Subject: Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language Date: 20-Apr-2012 - 21-Apr-2012 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Contact Person: Barbara Pearson Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2012 Meeting Description: 'Heritage speakers' have been described by Polinsky and Kagan (2007) as people raised in a home where one language is spoken, but who subsequently switch to another dominant language. This conference aims to explore the formal properties of Heritage Speaker grammars and where they diverge from both native 'baseline' and L2 speaker grammars. The program will also include a workshop on research techniques for heritage languages. Invited Speakers: Ana Perez-Leroux, University of Toronto Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan Maria Polinsky, Harvard University Call for Papers: Abstracts for presentations or posters are solicited on both theoretical and acquisition issues that connect Heritage to L1 or L2 research. Priority will be given to work that addresses specific theoretical domains, such as, but not limited to: aspect, binding, quantification, and movement and more specifically, agreement, case, tense, and mood. Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be one page, font size 12 pt., with one-inch margins. A second page may (optionally) be used for examples, tables or graphs, and references. In order to maintain anonymity during the review process, please do not include your name or otherwise identify yourself anywhere in your abstract. Abstracts should be sent by email in pdf format to bpearsonresearch.umass.edu. Please use 'abstract submission' as subject heading. The body of the message should include the author's name(s), title, and contact information. The deadline for submissions is midnight (EST) February 29, 2012. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by March 10. For more information about the call or the conference, contact roeperlinguist.umass.edu, amaralspanport.umass.edu or bpearsonresearch.umass.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.