31.375, Calls: English; General Linguistics/Cyprus

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-375. Mon Jan 27 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.375, Calls: English; General Linguistics/Cyprus

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:34:02
From: Natalia Pavlou [pavlou.natalia at ucy.ac.cy]
Subject: International Conference on Heritage Languages and Multilingualism

 
Full Title: International Conference on Heritage Languages and Multilingualism 
Short Title: HELM 

Date: 05-Jun-2020 - 06-Jun-2020
Location: Lemesos, Cyprus 
Contact Person: Natalia Pavlou
Meeting Email: helmconference2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://cyprusheritagelanguages.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce the International Conference on Heritage Languages
and Multilingualism (HELM), which will take place at Cyprus University of
Technology in Limassol on June 5–6, 2020. The HELM conference will create an
opportunity for scholars, students, and educators interested in sharing their
knowledge and expertise in the field of heritage languages, language
acquisition, multilingualism, and grammar. The conference is funded by the
University of Cyprus internal grant entitled The Gradience of Lingualities
(GoL): Language Acquisition in Minority Contexts, Incomplete Linguistic
Competence and Theoretical Modeling in Heritage Speakers, and Vernacular
Varieties (PI: Kleanthes K. Grohmann). 

Heritage languages, especially in minority contexts and endangered languages,
have attracted the interest of those working on multilingualism, bilingualism,
and language acquisition as well as language policy makers. Some of the common
questions raised in this research are the exposure and influence on a
particular population by a dominant language, the age of exposure to input
from the dominant language, the grammar properties affected by it, and the
overall competence of the heritage language population when compared to
baseline speakers, i.e. native speakers of the same language (Polinsky 2018).
Heritage languages also raise interesting questions when compared to
multilingual societies where the dynamics between languages define them as
standard and non-standard. Data from multilingual speakers are important since
they involve grammars that often interact in interesting ways that a theory of
possible mental grammars needs to incorporate (Scontras et al. 2015). The need
for identifying the linguistic properties that characterize heritage language
speakers in multilingual societies within a broader concept of ‘comparative
lingualities’ (Grohmann & Kambanaros 2016) explains the focus that is placed
on heritage languages, their recognition, and preservation for the advancement
of linguistic theory. 

References: 
Grohmann, Kleanthes K. & Maria Kambanaros. 2016. The gradience of
multilingualism in typical and impaired language development: Positioning
bilectalism within comparative bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology 7,
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00037.
Polinsky, Maria. 2018. Heritage Languages and Their Speakers. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.ISBN: 9781107047648 
Scontras, Gregory, Zuzanna Fuchs, & Maria Polinsky. 2015. Heritage language
and linguistic theory. Frontiers in Psychology 6,
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01545.

Invited Speakers:
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Maria Kambanaros (Cyprus University of Technology) 
Svetlana Karpava (University of Cyprus)

Organizing Committee: 
Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Cyprus)
Natalia Pavlou (University of Cyprus)


Call for Papers: 

Abstracts for presentations and posters on any field of study relating to
heritage languages will be accepted until March 2, 2020. Presentations will
last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Authors should
indicate whether they prefer an oral or a poster presentation. Abstracts can
be submitted to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=helm2020

Abstracts must be written in English, should be a maximum of two pages
(including references) and anonymized to exclude any identifiable information.
Authors may submit a total of two abstracts, one individual and one joint.

We welcome submissions related to HELM at large, including any of the
following topics:

1)What are common grammar properties across heritage languages?
2)Can we develop diagnostics for heritage language speakers? 
3)How do heritage language differ or look similar to other contexts of
multilingualism?
4)What is the role of input in heritage language acquisition? 
5)How does language contact affect heritage language development?
6)What are the research methods that best apply in heritage language study?
7)How do language policies or identity interact with heritage language
development?




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