23.4045, Confs: Applied Ling, Language Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, General Ling/Canada
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Subject: 23.4045, Confs: Applied Ling, Language Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, General Ling/Canada
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:00:14
From: Joanne Markle LaMontagne [heritage.conf.2012 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Road Less Travelled
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The Road Less Travelled
Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Olivia Marasco
Contact Email: heritage.conf.2012 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
Heritage languages are the ancestral languages of speakers immersed in a dominant language environment. This international interdisciplinary conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition consists of plenaries and short format presentations treating current research on the following topics: heritage language sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, acquisition, linguistic analysis, and education. Additional events include sessions on students' language histories, and a conversation with Toronto writers Ricardo Sternberg and Martha Batiz, Poets in exile: The language I write in.
Invited Speakers
Terry Au, University of Hong Kong
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California
Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary
Preliminary Program
The Road Less Travelled: International conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition
October 26-27, 2012
Victoria College, Alumni Hall and Old Chapel
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html
Registration: Pre-registration is free and ends Monday October 15, 2012. On-site registration will be $20. To pre-register please email to heritage.conf.2012 at gmail.com with your name and affiliation.
Friday, October 26, 2012
9:00
Welcome and opening remarks
9:15-10:15
Plenary: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
10:15-10:45
Pecha kucha session
Linguistics for Heritage Language Learners: A need for revision
Maite Correa-Dominguez, Colorado State University
Ideological Challenges in Indigenous Heritage Language Education in the Urban Amazon
Sarah Shulist, University of Western Ontario
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:15
Plenary: Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages
Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto
12:15-12:45
Pecha kucha session
Attrition in Geminates in the Iranian-Canadian Community: Across three generations?
Yasaman Rafat, University of Western Ontario
Speech Rate Across Generations in two Toronto Heritage Languages
Marisa Brook & Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto
12:45-2:15
Lunch
2:15-3:15
Plenary: The Consequences of Official Bilingualism on the Status of Non-official Languages in Canada
Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary
3:15-4:15
Student testimonials
4:15-4:45
Break
4:45-5:45
Poets in Exile: The language I write in
Martha Batiz, Glendon Campus, York University
Ricardo Sternberg, University of Toronto
5:45-6:45
Reception (Location: Foyer in Old Vic)
Saturday, October 27, 2012
9:30-10:30
Plenary: Heritage Language Acquisition in Childhood
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California
10:30-11:00
Pecha kucha session
The Use of Korean Light Verb hay in English Main Verbs: Code-switching by Korean heritage children
Sunny Park-Johnson, DePaul University
Heritage Language Acquisition and Retention: A study of Canadian-born Romanian-speaking bilingual children
Maria Claudi Petrescu & Rena Helms-Park, University of Toronto
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Pecha kucha session
Heritage Languages in the Toronto Linguistic Landscape: Indexing belonging and deviance
Phillip Sebastian Angermeyer, York University
Going beyond Bilingual in Montreal: Heritage language practices in a context of not one but two dominant languages
Mela Sarkar, Alison Crump, Theophano Georgiou, Sumanthra Govender, Katie Green, Diane Emerson, Seong Man Park, Yasuko Senoo, Noor Tamannah
McGill University
Probing for Productive Capacity in Receptive Bilinguals: Elicited immitation in Labrador Inuttitut
Marina Sherkina-Lieber, York University
12:30-2:00
Poster session and catered lunch (See below for poster presentations)
2:00-2:30
Pecha kucha session
A Look at the Overt Pronoun Constraint: Polish heritage speakers in Canada
Ewelina Barski, University of Western Ontario
Canadian and US Spanish Heritage Speakers: The effect of input, language contact and transfer
Elena Valenzuela, University of Ottawa
Jason Rothman, University of Florida
Kristina Borg, University of Ottawa
Diego Pascual, University of Florida
Manuela Pinto, University of Utrecht
2:30-3:30
Plenary: Access to Childhood Language Memory in Re-learning a Heritage Language
Terry Au, The University of Hong Kong
3:30-4:00
Break
4:00-4:30
Pecha kucha session
Pursuing Heritage Language Maintenance in Japan-What are the Options?
Mitsuyo Sakamoto, Sophia University (Japan)
Korean Language Maintenance in Canada and the United States: Societal, Contact, and Attitudinal Factors
Mihyon Jeon, York University
4:30-5:30
Plenary: Heritage speakers: Learning about them, learning from them
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
5:30
Closing remarks
Poster Session, Saturday October 27, 2012, from 12:30-2:00.
Bridging Continents: The Indian-American linguistic experience
Geeta Aneja, University of Pennsylvania
Heritage Languages and Education in China: Untapped potential for theory, research and practice
Stephen Bahry & Jia Luo, University of Toronto
Preserving a ''Progressive Political Culture'': Language maintenance factors in the context of exile
Ava Becker, University of Alberta
Morphological Attrition and Phonological Maintenance in a Heritage Speaker of Finnish
Emily Cibelli, University of California at Berkeley
Discourses Affecting Heritage Language Learners in a Bilingual Program
Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary
''…just 'cause you don't speak Spanish at home doesn't mean that you can't be the MVP'':
Investigating the Impact of Instructional Stance on Positions Assumed by Heritage Language Learners
(HLLs) and Foreign Language Learners (FLLs) in One Heterogeneous Spanish Class
Elizabeth Goulette, The State University of New York at Buffalo
The Construct of L1 (Heritage Japanese) and L2 (English) Writing Skills among Japanese-Speaking Children in Toronto
Kazuko Nakajima, University of Toronto;
Misa Fukukawa, The Japanese School of Toronto Shokokai
Aiko Sano, Hokkaido University
Tomoko Nakano, Brooklyn Nihongo Gakuen
Yuko Ikuta, Chubu University
Perfect Timing: Child heritage acquisition of the Spanish present perfect in a Francophone context
Joanne Markle LaMontagne, University of Toronto
Use of Pronouns in Hungarian as a Heritage Language. A Comparative Study
Timea Molnár, University of Szeged
Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Reading Harry Potter in Nepali and Swedish
Rahat Naqvi & Sarah Clark, University of Calgary
Heritage Language Instruction in Sweden: A long but threatened (?) tradition
Lilian Nygren-Junkin, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Modern Hebrew Language as a Heritage Language? And for Whom?
Dina Roginsky, Yale University
Interrogative Inversion in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Instances of Bidirectional Transfer
Nelleke Strik, Dalhousie University
Alejandro Cuza, Purdue University
Gender Differences in Heritage Learners' Pragmatic Sensitivity
Medha Tare, University of Maryland
Affinity Identity Analysis of Japanese Heritage Language Learners
Naoko Takei, Simon Fraser University
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