[HERITAGE-LIST] Conference presentation (ACTFL): "The Polyglot Boarding House"

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

The Polyglot Boarding House: Immigrant Language Patterns in America 
 
Sunday, November 23, 11:30am - 12:45pm  
Dolphin Hotel / Europe 10

Chair: Kim Potowski (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Presenters: Maria Carreira (Cal State Long Beach)  
Presenter: Luciana Fellin (Duke University)  
Presenter: Sonia Shiri (University of California-Berkeley)  
Presenter: Yun Xiao (Bryant University)  
Presenter: Scott McGinnis (Defense Language Institute, Washington Office)  
  
 
Abstract:  
The proposed panel will present profiles of ethnolinguistic groups in the United States who made early contributions and continue to be heard widely (Spanish, Italian, and Chinese) and languages which are acquiring an increasingly more important voice today (Arabic).