32.797, FYI: Deadline Extension: Special Issue ''Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing Models and Expanding the Range of Data''

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Subject: 32.797, FYI: Deadline Extension: Special Issue ''Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing Models and Expanding the Range of Data''

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:35:39
From: Christine Shea [christine-shea at uiowa.edu]
Subject: Deadline Extension: Special Issue ''Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing Models and Expanding the Range of Data''

 
Language-specific phonetic/phonological development is fundamentally driven by
innate learning mechanisms and is largely in place within the first year of
life (Werker et al., 1981). This process is necessary for the elaboration of
language-specific perceptual and production abilities that form the basis for
lexical development over time. Such early language-specific specialization
poses interesting questions for phonetic/phonological development in heritage
language speakers, who undergo a dominance shift at some point during early
childhood. Heritage speakers are often judged as closer to the monolingual
norms than late L2 learners, whose spoken language and speech perception
retain L1 influences even after years of exposure to their second language
(Flege & MacKay, 2004; Iverson et al., 2003).

In this Special Issue, we are interested in research focusing on how speech
learning models capture heritage speaker phonetic and phonological
development. While current speech learning models have characterized many
features of L2 (Flege, 1995; Best & Tyler, 2007, Escudero, 2005) and early
bilingual development (Paradis & Genesee, 1996; Fabiano-Smith & Goldstein,
2010; Fabiano-Smith & Barlow, 2010), direct transferability of these models to
the specific case of heritage language phonetic and phonological development
is not necessarily straightforward since in some ways, heritage language
speakers are uniquely positioned on the bilingualism continuum.

In this Special Issue, we call for contributions that focus on three primary
areas of research:

(1) Testing Current L2 Speech Models: How does the role of early
language-specific development play out in heritage speakers whose initial
commitment was to a language that has since become non-dominant? What does
this mean for speech categories and directionality of language influence and
transfer?

(2) Broaden the range of heritage language experiences: In order to test
models across a broader range of languages and contexts, we encourage
submissions that examine heritage speakers of less-studied languages, in
contexts outside of those typically considered (e.g., Chinese or Korean
speakers in Latin America; Nahuatl/Mayan/Zapotec in Mexico and Central
America; Quechua/Aymara in South America; Navajo in the United States;
Aboriginal languages in Australia). It is well-recognized that sociolinguistic
factors such as language prestige and community social cohesion play a role in
heritage language maintenance (Velázquez et al., 2015). How do these factors
affect the production and perception of heritage languages?

(3) Perception and Production links: Finally, because perception and
production are so closely coupled, we also welcome research that covers the
connection between them (Kim, 2020).

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400-600 words summarizing
their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors
(christine-shea at uiowa.edu; jiyoungkim at ucla.edu) and to Languages editorial
office (languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors
for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue.
Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

The tentative completion schedule is as follows:

Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance: 30 April 2021
Full manuscript deadline: 15 August 2021

For more information regarding submissions details, please go to this link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/Heritage_Speaker
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





 



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