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

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

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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:00:14
From: Joanne Markle LaMontagne [heritage.conf.2012 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Road Less Travelled

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The Road Less Travelled 

Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012 
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Contact: Olivia Marasco 
Contact Email: heritage.conf.2012 at gmail.com 
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.2012 at gmail.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

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