LINGUIST List 23.4045: Confs: Applied Ling, Language Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, General Ling/Canada

LINGUIST List 23.4045
Mon Oct 01 2012 Confs: Applied Ling, Language Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, General Ling/Canada Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Sep-2012 From: Joanne Markle LaMontagne <heritage.conf.2012gmail.com> Subject: The Road Less Travelled E-mail this message to a friend The Road Less Travelled Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Contact: Olivia Marasco Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 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 Preliminary Program The Road Less Travelled: International conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition October 26-27, 2012 Victoria College, Alumni Hall and Old Chapel University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html Registration: Pre-registration is free and ends Monday October 15, 2012. On-site registration will be $20. To pre-register please email to heritage.conf.2012gmail.com with your name and affiliation. Friday, October 26, 2012 9:00 Welcome and opening remarks 9:15-10:15 Plenary: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania 10:15-10:45 Pecha kucha session Linguistics for Heritage Language Learners: A need for revision Maite Correa-Dominguez, Colorado State University Ideological Challenges in Indigenous Heritage Language Education in the Urban Amazon Sarah Shulist, University of Western Ontario 10:45-11:15 Break 11:15-12:15 Plenary: Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto 12:15-12:45 Pecha kucha session Attrition in Geminates in the Iranian-Canadian Community: Across three generations? Yasaman Rafat, University of Western Ontario Speech Rate Across Generations in two Toronto Heritage Languages Marisa Brook & Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto 12:45-2:15 Lunch 2:15-3:15 Plenary: The Consequences of Official Bilingualism on the Status of Non-official Languages in Canada Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary 3:15-4:15 Student testimonials 4:15-4:45 Break 4:45-5:45 Poets in Exile: The language I write in Martha Batiz, Glendon Campus, York University Ricardo Sternberg, University of Toronto 5:45-6:45 Reception (Location: Foyer in Old Vic) Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:30-10:30 Plenary: Heritage Language Acquisition in Childhood Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California 10:30-11:00 Pecha kucha session The Use of Korean Light Verb hay in English Main Verbs: Code-switching by Korean heritage children Sunny Park-Johnson, DePaul University Heritage Language Acquisition and Retention: A study of Canadian-born Romanian-speaking bilingual children Maria Claudi Petrescu & Rena Helms-Park, University of Toronto 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 Pecha kucha session Heritage Languages in the Toronto Linguistic Landscape: Indexing belonging and deviance Phillip Sebastian Angermeyer, York University Going beyond Bilingual in Montreal: Heritage language practices in a context of not one but two dominant languages Mela Sarkar, Alison Crump, Theophano Georgiou, Sumanthra Govender, Katie Green, Diane Emerson, Seong Man Park, Yasuko Senoo, Noor Tamannah McGill University Probing for Productive Capacity in Receptive Bilinguals: Elicited immitation in Labrador Inuttitut Marina Sherkina-Lieber, York University 12:30-2:00 Poster session and catered lunch (See below for poster presentations) 2:00-2:30 Pecha kucha session A Look at the Overt Pronoun Constraint: Polish heritage speakers in Canada Ewelina Barski, University of Western Ontario Canadian and US Spanish Heritage Speakers: The effect of input, language contact and transfer Elena Valenzuela, University of Ottawa Jason Rothman, University of Florida Kristina Borg, University of Ottawa Diego Pascual, University of Florida Manuela Pinto, University of Utrecht 2:30-3:30 Plenary: Access to Childhood Language Memory in Re-learning a Heritage Language Terry Au, The University of Hong Kong 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-4:30 Pecha kucha session Pursuing Heritage Language Maintenance in Japan-What are the Options? Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Sophia University (Japan) Korean Language Maintenance in Canada and the United States: Societal, Contact, and Attitudinal Factors Mihyon Jeon, York University 4:30-5:30 Plenary: Heritage speakers: Learning about them, learning from them Maria Polinsky, Harvard University 5:30 Closing remarks Poster Session, Saturday October 27, 2012, from 12:30-2:00. Bridging Continents: The Indian-American linguistic experience Geeta Aneja, University of Pennsylvania Heritage Languages and Education in China: Untapped potential for theory, research and practice Stephen Bahry & Jia Luo, University of Toronto Preserving a ''Progressive Political Culture'': Language maintenance factors in the context of exile Ava Becker, University of Alberta Morphological Attrition and Phonological Maintenance in a Heritage Speaker of Finnish Emily Cibelli, University of California at Berkeley Discourses Affecting Heritage Language Learners in a Bilingual Program Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary ''…just 'cause you don't speak Spanish at home doesn't mean that you can't be the MVP'': Investigating the Impact of Instructional Stance on Positions Assumed by Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) and Foreign Language Learners (FLLs) in One Heterogeneous Spanish Class Elizabeth Goulette, The State University of New York at Buffalo The Construct of L1 (Heritage Japanese) and L2 (English) Writing Skills among Japanese-Speaking Children in Toronto Kazuko Nakajima, University of Toronto; Misa Fukukawa, The Japanese School of Toronto Shokokai Aiko Sano, Hokkaido University Tomoko Nakano, Brooklyn Nihongo Gakuen Yuko Ikuta, Chubu University Perfect Timing: Child heritage acquisition of the Spanish present perfect in a Francophone context Joanne Markle LaMontagne, University of Toronto Use of Pronouns in Hungarian as a Heritage Language. A Comparative Study Timea Molnár, University of Szeged Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Reading Harry Potter in Nepali and Swedish Rahat Naqvi & Sarah Clark, University of Calgary Heritage Language Instruction in Sweden: A long but threatened (?) tradition Lilian Nygren-Junkin, Gothenburg University, Sweden Modern Hebrew Language as a Heritage Language? And for Whom? Dina Roginsky, Yale University Interrogative Inversion in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Instances of Bidirectional Transfer Nelleke Strik, Dalhousie University Alejandro Cuza, Purdue University Gender Differences in Heritage Learners' Pragmatic Sensitivity Medha Tare, University of Maryland Affinity Identity Analysis of Japanese Heritage Language Learners Naoko Takei, Simon Fraser University Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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