<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div>I include and attach our call for papers once again. I had mistaken the dates. The correct dates are Saturday, April 21 and Sunday April 22.</div><div>We welcome your questions and feedback.</div><div>
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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:27.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">Conference
on</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"> </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:27.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">Formal
Approaches to Heritage Language</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:27.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:27.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">April 21-22, 2012***Corrected dates!</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b>Sponsored by
the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) of the <o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b>University
of Massachusetts Amherst<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b> “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.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></o:p>Invited speakers:</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ana Perez-Leroux, University of Toronto<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Maria Polinsky, Harvard University<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> </o:p>Abstracts for presentations or posters are solicited on both theoretical and acquisition
issues that connect Heritage to L1 or L2 research. </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> </o:p>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.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b> 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></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> </o:p>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>The deadline for
submissions is midnight (EST) February 29, 2012. Notifications of acceptance
will be sent out by March 10.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> </o:p>Abstract deadline: February 29, 2012</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b>For more information about the call or
the conference: <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></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b>Notification of acceptance: March 10,
2012 <o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b>Workshop dates: April 21-22, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Arial Rounded MT Bold'" size="4"><b><o:p> </o:p>ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE: Luiz Amaral, Barbara Z.
Pearson, and Tom Roeper</b></font></p><div><br></div></div></div><br><div>
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