24.4242, Calls: Romance, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, General Linguistics/Canada

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Subject: 24.4242, Calls: Romance, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, General Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:18:11
From: Silvia Perpiñán [sperpina at uwo.ca]
Subject: Romance Languages as Minority and/or Heritage Languages

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Full Title: Romance Languages as Minority and/or Heritage Languages 

Date: 02-May-2014 - 04-May-2014
Location: London, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Silvia Perpiñán
Meeting Email: sperpina at uwo.ca

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2013 

Meeting Description:

Heritage speakers, or early bilingual speakers of minority languages
(typically 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants), have not received much attention
in linguistic research until recently. Most of these studies have shown that
heritage speakers attain different degrees of command of their first or family
language, but on average they do not reach native-like attainment in
adulthood. There is a longer tradition of research on minority languages, for
example, minority French in Ontario, which examines minority language
restriction as one factor in language variation.


Call for Papers:

The purpose of this special session is to bring together researchers who work on Romance heritage languages and on Romance languages acquired in minority contexts to compare and contrast results of studies on these understudied populations. This encounter will contribute to the recent body of research on heritage languages, allowing for crosslinguistic comparisons. Submissions on the acquisition of Romance languages as minority languages not in contact with English are particularly encouraged.

Some of the theoretical topics that may arise in this session include:

- The issue of transfer from the majority language
- Directionality of change. Do minority and heritage languages tend to simplification?
- The causes of non-native-like achievement. Incomplete acquisition vs. attrition vs. qualitatively different input
- Language attrition in 1st (and subsequent) generation immigrants
- To what extent do long-established minority languages and immigrant heritage languages have similar or distinct linguistic patterns?

Abstracts should not exceed two pages in length (including data, references, etc.), in 12-point type. All margins should be at least one inch wide (2.5 cm). Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. 

Abstracts should be submitted in PDF form via EasyAbs (please specify in your abstract document whether your submission is for a presentation in the main session, a poster, or the special session).







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