37.3058, Confs: Heritage Languages Around the World 3 (Norway)

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Subject: 37.3058, Confs: Heritage Languages Around the World 3 (Norway)

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Date: 23-Sep-2026
From: Nadine Kolb [nadine.kolb at uis.no]
Subject: Heritage Languages Around the World 3


Heritage Languages Around the World 3
Short Title: HLAW 3
Theme: Heritage Languages

Date: 12-May-2027 - 14-May-2027
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Contact: Nadine Kolb
Contact Email: nadine.kolb at uis.no
Meeting URL:
https://www.uis.no/en/research/events/humanities/heritage-languages-around-the-world-3-hlaw3

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

Submission Deadline: 16-Nov-2026

We invite submissions addressing any aspect of heritage language
research. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Linguistic properties of heritage languages in child and adult
multilinguals
- Heritage language acquisition and development across the lifespan
- The role of input, exposure, and language use in heritage language
development
- Cross-linguistic influence in heritage language speakers
- Heritage language maintenance, attrition, and revitalization
- Variation and change in heritage languages
- Research methods and methodological advances in heritage language
research
- Understudied heritage languages and communities
- Heritage language literacy and education
- Family language policy and intergenerational language transmission
- Heritage language policies and multilingualism
- Language attitudes, identity, and belonging
- Heritage languages and the preservation of linguistic diversity
We particularly welcome research on understudied languages and
communities, as well as work that expands the geographical,
linguistic, theoretical, and methodological scope of heritage language
research.
Keynote Speakers
- Cristina Flores (Universidade do Minho)
- Sonali Nag (University of Oxford)
- Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)
- Hilde Sollid (UiT Norges arktiske universitet)
Following the successful first two editions of Heritage Languages
Around the World, held at the University of Lisbon in 2022 and the
University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2024, we are pleased to
announce the International Conference on Heritage Languages Around the
World (HLAW), which will take place at the University of Stavanger
from 12th to 14th of May 2027.
In the last two decades, Heritage Languages have received growing
attention, both in the field of bilingualism studies and in research
concerned with the preservation and revitalization of endangered
languages. They have been under the scrutiny of linguists, especially
of those working on bilingual language acquisition and on
sociolinguistics, as well as language policy makers, language
activists, and researchers in education. For linguists interested in
bilingualism, heritage speakers represent not only a large part of the
bilingual population, but also a case in which it is possible to study
the effects of different amounts of exposure and of cross-linguistic
influence on a population in which birth is maintained as the age of
onset for the heritage language. From the viewpoint of
sociolinguistics, heritage languages raise several questions,
including which conditions determine linguistic preservation or
attrition, or the significance of the fact that heritage speakers are
often exposed to only a non-standard variety of the heritage language.
The recognition of the specificities of heritage speakers and heritage
languages in multilingual societies is what justifies the relevance of
the topic for policy makers and for researchers interested in language
education and language policies.
The main goal of this conference is to bring together various research
perspectives on heritage languages in order to contribute to a better
understanding of the effects of language development and education in
immigrant and minority language communities around the world.



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