27.1143, Calls: Heritage Language, Lang Acq/Norway

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Subject: 27.1143, Calls: Heritage Language, Lang Acq/Norway

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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:49:10
From: Jorge González Alonso [jorge.gonzalez.alonso at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Heritage Language Acquisition

 
Full Title: Workshop on Heritage Language Acquisition 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 20-Sep-2016
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact Person: Jorge González Alonso
Meeting Email: heritage2016 at list.uit.no
Web Site: http://site.uit.no/lava/workshop-heritage-language-acquisition/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

The LAVA research group (Language Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) at UiT
the Arctic University of Norway is pleased to announce the workshop ''Heritage
Language Acquisition: Breaking New Ground in Methodology and Domains of
Inquiry'', to be held in Tromsø September 19-20, 2016. The purpose of the
workshop is to bring together researchers from around the world who work on
heritage language (HL) acquisition and processing from any theoretical
linguistic perspective. All work pertaining to HL development in childhood,
the documentation and explanation of HL ultimate attainment in adulthood and
HL processing at any age is welcome. 

Keynote speakers:

- Professor Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
- Professor Monika Schmid (University of Essex)
- Professor Janne Bondi Johannessen (MultiLing, University of Oslo)
- Dr. Álvaro Villegas (University of Central Florida)
- Associate professor Mike Putnam (Penn State University)

Registration link (deadline September 1st): Coming soon.
Abstract details: See call.


Call for Papers: 

Deadline for submission: 1 June 2016
Notification: 17 June 2016

Workshop website:
http://site.uit.no/lava/workshop-heritage-language-acquisition/

Abstract submission link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/heritage2016

Given that the leitmotifs of the workshop are innovations in (i) methodology
and (ii) domains of inquiry, we are especially interested in submissions that
employ or discuss:

- Cross-sectional and/or longitudinal methodology seeking to chart HL
developmental trajectories over time.
- Behavioral and/or neurolinguistic studies of heritage language processing.
- Methodological issues in heritage language research; e.g. what is and is not
appropriate for empirical methodologies with (subgroups of) heritage speakers
and why.
- The role that L1 attrition plays in heritage language outcomes--whether this
be grammatical changes in individual heritage speaker grammars over time or
links to changes to input heritage speakers hear as a result of L1 attrition
in the generation of speakers who provide their input.
- The understudied domains of HL phonological development and ultimate
attainment.
- The role that variation in input--quantity, quality, variety--plays and how
this can be modelled and documented.
- Foreign language acquisition by heritage speakers.
- The role that literacy and formal instruction plays--whether in(re)-learning
of the standard variety of the heritage language via formal instruction in
adulthood or early access to HL literacy/formal education in childhood.

We seek high quality paper and poster presentations that contribute to the
larger issues mentioned in the conference announcement, but also contributions
that examine specific empirical questions in heritage language processing
and/or heritage language acquisition from a cognitive perspective. The
deadline for submissions is June 1, 2016. You may submit an abstract through
the link above for consideration as a paper, poster or both; please indicate
your preference in your submission. Abstract submissions must fit on one A4
page, written in Times New Roman script, 12 point font. A second, optional
page can be used for references, charts/tables of data and for examples of
experimental methodology only. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. We endeavour
to inform authors of the outcome of peer review by June 17. A limited number
of travel grants will be provided to the highest rated PhD and Masters student
abstracts. Please indicate through the abstract submission system if you are
eligible and would like to be considered for a graduate student travel
bursary.




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