CONFERENCE: Formal Approaches to Heritage Language - CORRECTED dates

[Barbara Pearson]

Dear Colleagues,
I include and attach our call for papers once again.  I had mistaken the dates.  The correct dates are Saturday, April 21 and Sunday April 22.
We welcome your questions and feedback.
Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language 

April 21-22, 2012***Corrected dates!

Sponsored by the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) of the

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  “Heritage speakers” have been described by Polinsky and Kagan (2007) as people raised in a home where one language is spoken, but who subsequently switch to another dominant language.  This conference aims to explore the formal properties of Heritage Speaker grammars and where they diverge from both native “baseline” and L2 speaker grammars. The program will also include a workshop on research techniques for heritage languages.

 	Invited speakers:

		Ana Perez-Leroux, University of Toronto

		Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan

		Maria Polinsky, Harvard University

 Abstracts for presentations or posters are solicited on both theoretical and acquisition issues that connect Heritage to L1 or L2 research.        

 Priority will be given to work that addresses specific theoretical domains, such as, but not limited to:  aspect, binding, quantification, and movement and more specifically, agreement, case, tense, and mood.

 Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be one page, font size 12 pt., with one-inch margins. A second page may (optionally) be used for examples, tables or graphs, and references. In order to maintain anonymity during the review process, please do not include your name or otherwise identify yourself anywhere in your abstract.  

 Abstracts should be sent by email in pdf format to bpearson at research.umass.edu. Please use ‘abstract submission’ as subject heading.  The body of the message should include the author’s name(s), title, and contact information.  The deadline for submissions is midnight (EST) February 29, 2012. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by March 10.

 Abstract deadline: February 29, 2012

For more information about the call or the conference: roeper at linguist.umass.edu, amaral at spanport.umass.edu or bpearson at research.umass.edu

Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2012

Workshop dates: April 21-22, 2012

 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:  Luiz Amaral, Barbara Z. Pearson, and Tom Roeper



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Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Depts of Linguistics and   Communication Disorders
c/o 226 South College
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst MA 01003

bpearson at research.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/aae/bp_indexold.htm
http://www.zurer.com/pearson

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