37.3454, FYI: Making Waves Oct 2026 Meeting

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Subject: 37.3454, FYI: Making Waves Oct 2026 Meeting

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Date: 21-Oct-2026
From: Mariia Pronina [mariia.pronina at uib.cat]
Subject: Making Waves Oct 2026 Meeting


The first meeting of the second season of Making Waves will take place
on Wednesday 28th October at 3pm CET (2pm British Winter Time, 8am
Central Time). Rajiv Rao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will give a
talk titled “Heritage language prosody: What we know and where to go”.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively
discussion.
Abstract:
Heritage speakers are those who grow up with a minority language at
home before transitioning to school, at which point the societally
dominant language begins to gradually play more of a role, often
resulting in unbalanced bilingualism in favor of the latter in
adulthood. Within the field of heritage language linguistics, studies
on phonetics and phonology lagged behind other areas (e.g.,
morphosyntax) for many years because it was assumed that heritage
speakers “sound native” or “have a good accent.” Over the last
decade-plus, studies on sound systems have taken off, with key
discussions emerging about linguistic and extralinguistic factors that
contribute to a so-called “heritage accent”; however, to date, the
bulk of this body of work deals with segmental phenomena rather than
prosody, even though it has been suggested that suprasegmental
features carry more weight than segmental ones when characterizing a
heritage accent.
In this talk, using examples of intonation, tone, rhythm, and stress
from heritage Spanish in the US (due to its relatively large
representation) and other languages/bilingual dyads/geographies, I
highlight our existing knowledge of heritage prosody through
methodological (e.g., participant groups, data elicitation and
analysis techniques, surveys, etc.), theoretical (e.g., ToBI, L2
Intonation Learning Theory, Developmental L2 Intonational Hypothesis,
Attention & Drift in Access, Production, and Perception Theory, etc.),
social (e.g., cross-generational changes, source input variety, age
and density of speakers in given regions, etc.), and pedagogical
(e.g., effects of classroom experience) lenses. While encouraging
prosodists to continue moving beyond heritage Spanish in the US, I
will show that the relative over-representation of this context can be
seen as a “testing ground” that can provide useful points of departure
for expansions with different language pairings around the globe,
particularly for the cases of rhythm, stress, and lexical tone, which
have received even less attention than intonation. Based on the topics
covered and gaps identified, I will conclude with a series of
recommendations that aim to push studies on heritage prosody forward
along innovative pathways.
To wrap up:
Time: 28th October 2026, 15:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Topic: Heritage language prosody: What we know and where to go
Speaker: Rajiv Rao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Hosts: Mariia Pronina & Rebecca Woods
Zoom link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/96178988270 (Zoom login required)
The website with all the updated information can be found here -
https://sites.google.com/view/making-waves-group.
Everyone is warmly invited to join us!
Marusia & Becky

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology


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