32.61, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acq, Ling Theories, Socioling/Online

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Subject: 32.61, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acq, Ling Theories, Socioling/Online

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:40:26
From: Arturo Diaz [adiaz at international.ucla.edu]
Subject: Thirteenth Heritage Language Research Institute

 
Full Title: Thirteenth Heritage Language Research Institute 
Short Title: HLRI 

Date: 07-Jun-2021 - 10-Jun-2021
Location: Virtual, USA 
Contact Person: Arturo Diaz
Meeting Email: adiaz at international.ucla.edu
Web Site: https://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/14722 

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

Call Deadline: 22-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

Researchers working on heritage languages and bilingualism more generally
occasionally notice that the degree of heritage language maintenance varies
depending on the dominant language of the bilingual dyad. For example, Spanish
as a heritage language spoken in Germany seems to be weaker than Spanish as a
heritage language with French as the dominant language. While some such
differences in heritage language maintenance are undoubtedly attributable to
societal factors, it is also important to consider the linguistic distance
between the two languages and the role structural and genetic relations
between languages in the bilingual dyad in the maintenance of the heritage
member of that dyad.

Language similarity, however evaluated, has played a prominent role in studies
of L2 and L3 acquisition (Rothman 2011, Montrul et al. 2011, Polinsky 2015,
Benmamoun and Albirini 2016) but has not been systematically considered in
heritage contexts. Further still, in considering language similarities and
distance, it is important to include not only different languages but
different dialects of the same language. For instance, a heritage speaker of
Levantine Arabic may find it easier to accommodate to the Egyptian variety of
Arabic than to a Moroccan variety. Yet another important dimension of language
similarity and distance emerges when we include heritage creole languages.
Being languages in their own right, they are nevertheless largely ignored in
the classroom to the extent that a heritage speaker of Haitian Creole may be
asked to take French as their “home” language.

The 13th Heritage Language Research Institute is designed to address these and
related issues of linguistic distance and language or dialect similarity in
the heritage context, both in relation to linguistic research and
research-based language pedagogy. The Institute will give equal time/coverage
to pedagogical and theoretical-linguistic approaches to heritage languages and
will actively seek new ways to build synergies between these two approaches.


Call for Papers: 

We welcome abstracts for posters that address the following overarching
questions:
1. How does genetic and linguistic distance between the heritage language and
the dominant language affect HL maintenance, grammatical representation, and
pedagogical needs for HL learners?

2. How does dialectal variation within the heritage language impact language
instruction and pedagogy for heritage speakers?

3. Variation can result from intergenerational variation, regional variation,
or other forms of linguistic variation. What implications does dialectal
variation in the Heritage Language have for the study of its grammatical
representation in speakers?

4. What specific needs do heritage speakers/learners of Indigenous languages
have, and how can both the linguistic and education communities support local
heritage and Indigenous communities in language maintenance/revitalization
programs?

If you would like to present a poster at the Institute, please submit your
abstract (max: 500 words) by Friday, January 22, 2021. Submission link:
https://ucla.in/33d5miV




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