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<P><FONT size=2>The Road Less Travelled<BR><BR>Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012<BR>Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada<BR>Contact Person: Olivia Marasco<BR>Meeting Email: < click here to access email ><BR>Web Site: <A href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html">http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html</A><BR><BR>Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;<BR>Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics<BR><BR>Call Deadline: 15-May-2012<BR><BR>Meeting Description:<BR><BR>Heritage languages are the ancestral languages of speakers immersed in<BR>a dominant language environment. This international interdisciplinary<BR>conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition<BR>consists of plenaries and short format presentations treating current<BR>research on the following topics: heritage language sociolinguistics,<BR>psycholinguistics, acquisition, linguistic analysis, and education.<BR>Additional events include sessions on students' language histories,<BR>and a conversation with Toronto writers Ricardo Sternberg and Martha<BR>Batiz, Poets in exile: The language I write in.<BR><BR>Invited Speakers and Topics:<BR><BR>Terry Au, University of Hong Kong - Access to Childhood Language Memory<BR>Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania - Heritage Languages in Education<BR>Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto - Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages<BR>Maria Polinsky, Harvard University - Attrition in Heritage Languages<BR>Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary - Language Policy<BR>Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California - Language<BR>Acquisition in Heritage Contexts<BR><BR>Call for Papers:<BR><BR>Presentation format: poster sessions and Pecha Kucha* presentations<BR><BR>Abstracts: Max. 1 page (12 pt. font)<BR><BR>Email and website: heritage.conf.2012gmail.com;<BR><A href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html">http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html</A><BR><BR>Please submit an anonymous abstract and include the following<BR>information in the body of your email: 1) author's name, contact, and<BR>affiliation, 2) title of presentation, 3) preferred format of<BR>presentation (poster, Pecha Kucha or either)<BR><BR>*Pecha Kucha is a fixed presentation format in which 20 slides are<BR>shown for 20 seconds each for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. All<BR>presenters must follow the time limit. We ask that all accepted<BR>presenters submit a draft of their Pecha Kucha slides by the end of<BR>August. For more information on Pecha Kucha please consult the<BR>following websites:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha">http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha</A><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUg</A><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fils7clg6iU&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fils7clg6iU&feature=related</A><BR><BR><A href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2116.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2116.html</A><BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>