<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please post the following Call for Papers <div>(A version of the call in Word is also attached. Please post.)</div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="5">Conference
on Formal
Approaches to Heritage Language</font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:27.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="5">April 20-21, 2012</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"> Sponsored by
the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) of the University
of Massachusetts Amherst </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">“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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Invited speakers:<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ana Perez-Leroux, University of Toronto<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Maria Polinsky, Harvard University</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Abstracts for presentations or posters are solicited on both theoretical and acquisition
issues that connect Heritage to L1 or L2 research. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">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.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Abstracts should be sent by email in
pdf format to <a href="mailto:bpearson@research.umass.edu">bpearson@research.umass.edu</a>. Please use ‘abstract submission’ as
subject heading. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The body of the
message should include the author’s name(s), title, and contact
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">For more information about the call or
the conference, contact the organizers: Tom Roeper, Luiz Amaral, or Barbara Zurer Pearson ( <a href="mailto:roeper@linguist.umass.edu">roeper@linguist.umass.edu</a>,
<a href="mailto:amaral@spanport.umass.edu">amaral@spanport.umass.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:bpearson@research.umass.edu">bpearson@research.umass.edu</a> )<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Abstract deadline: February 29, 2012 (midnight EST)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Notification of acceptance: March 10,
2012 <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">Workshop dates: April 20-21, 2012</font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"></font></p></div></body></html>