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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 (Room: E0.101) | |
8:30 – 8:55 | REGISTRATION |
8:55 – 9:00 | Opening remarks Eystein Dahl ─ Head of the Department of Language and Culture (ISK) |
9:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Monika Schmid (University of Essex, UK) How does age of onset affect L1 attrition in bilinguals? Chair: Marit Westergaard |
10:00 – 10:30 | Wh-Question comprehension in Heritage English: Attrition, lack of resources or processing breakdown? Efrat Harel (Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel), Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) & Irena Botwinik (Tel Aviv University, Israel) |
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Session 2 (Chair: Marta Velnic) | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Comparing heritage speakers and late acquirers in the context of bidialectal bilingualism: Data from production Tammer Castro (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Jason Rothman (University of Reading, UK & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) & Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU, Norway) |
11:30 – 12:00 | Copular Variation in Spanish: Implications for the Study of Heritage Speaker Spanish Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Ashwini Deo & María Mercedes Piñango (Yale University, USA) |
12:00 – 12:30 | Development of perception of tone contrasts in Cantonese as a heritage language Kan Ting Yan Rachel (University of Essex, UK) |
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13:30 – 14:30 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Álvaro Villegas (University of Central Florida, USA) What can an eye-tracker tell us about the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers? Chair: Jason Rothman |
Session 3 (Chair: Antonio Fábregas) | |
14:30 – 15:00 | Heritage Language Reversal: Phonological Processing in L2 English by Child Returnees Neal Snape (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, Japan), Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University, Japan), Yahiro Hirakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Hironobu Hosoi (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, Japan) & John Matthews (Chuo University, Japan) |
15:00 – 15:30 | Language dominance as the main predictor for syntactic transfer in heritage speakers acquiring L3 English: Embedded wh-questions, lexical and phonological proficiency Anika Lloyd-Smith (University of Konstanz, Germany), Henrik Gyllstad (Lund University, Sweden), Tanja Kupisch (University of Konstanz & UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Stefano Quaglia (University of Konstanz) & Lari-Valtteri Suhonen (Lund University) |
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Session 4 (Chair: Jorge González Alonso) | |
16:00 – 16:30 | Effects of parental input on heritage language development: A comparison across linguistic categories Bernhard Brehmer & Tatjana Kurbangulova (University of Greifswald, Germany) |
16:30 – 17:00 | Grammatical Gender in Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners Jessica Diebowski (University of Wuppertal, Germany) |
17:00 – 17:30 | Language mixing and diachronic change: Mixed American Norwegian noun phrases then and now Brita Ramsevik Riksem (NTNU, Norway) |
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17:45 – 18:45 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mike Putnam (Penn State University, USA) Gradient representations in multilingual grammars Chair: Terje Lohndal |
19:00 | ~ INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER ~ Address: Árdna, Campus Breivika |
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 (Room: E0.101) | |
9:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Janne Bondi Johannessen (MultiLing, University of Oslo, Norway) Studying past and present Heritage Norwegian: Possibilities and pitfalls Chair: Kristin Melum Eide |
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10:30 – 11:30 | POSTER SESSION (posters stay up for the remainder of the day) |
Session 5 (Chair: Yulia Rodina) | |
11:30 – 12:00 | Perception and production of lexical pitch accent in heritage Lithuanian Jessica Kantarovich (University of Chicago, USA) |
12:00 – 12:30 | Personal pronouns in American Norwegian: A new piece of the gender puzzle Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand (MultiLing, University of Oslo, Norway) |
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Session 6 (Chair: Terje Lohndal) | |
13:30 – 14:00 | Russian heritage speakers in Cyprus: Language proficiency and literacy skills Sviatlana Karpava (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus) |
14:00 – 14:30 | Language Dominance Affects Heritage Speaker Competence and Processing Eloi Puig-Mayenco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), David Miller (University of Reading, UK) & Jason Rothman (University of Reading & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) |
14:30 – 15:00 | Subject position in heritage Spanish in the Netherlands: Internal and external interfaces Brechje van Osch, Elisabet García González, Suzanne Aalberse, Aafke Hulk & Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
15:00 – 15:30 | The interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in Portuguese-German heritage bilinguals Esther Rinke (University of Frankfurt, Germany) & Cristina Flores (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) |
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Session 7 (Chair: Jason Rothman) | |
16:00 – 16:30 | The role of proficiency in Turkish heritage speakers’ processing of pronouns Gloria-Mona Knospe & Claudia Felser (Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Germany) |
16:30 – 17:00 | “I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t speak it”: The role of morphosyntactic processing in the comprehension of Heritage Spanish receptive bilinguals Bonnie C. Holmes (University of North Georgia, USA) |
17:00 – 17:30 | Intergenerational changes in Norwegian heritage language of the American Midwest Kristin Melum Eide (NTNU, Norway) & Arnstein Hjelde (Østfold University College, Norway) |
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17:45 – 18:45 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland, USA) Structure vs. use in heritage languages Chair: Tanja Kupisch |
19:45 | ~ CONFERENCE DINNER: Kitchen & Table Restaurant ~ |
POSTERS
- Differences in use do not mean deficiencies in competence: Syntactic knowledge of passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speaker children in Germany – Fatih Bayram (University of Reading & Ordu University, Turkey), Denny Berndt (University of Reading), Nadine Kolb (Universität zu Köln) & Jason Rothman (University of Reading & UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
- Competing grammars and licensing mechanisms in embedded wh-questions in Italian heritage speakers – Stefano Quaglia (University of Konstanz), Tanja Kupisch (University of Konstanz & UiT The Arctic University of Norway) & Anika Lloyd-Smith (University of Konstanz)
- Development of lexical access in Turkish and Moroccan child heritage speakers in the Netherlands – Mona Timmermeister & Elma Blom (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Analyzing two methodological issues in heritage language research: Consideration of code-switching attitudes and the binary treatment of Likert scale data – Lucía Badiola, Rodrigo Delgado, Ariane Sande, Sara Stefanich & Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
- Language proficiency in heritage Russian through the prism of narrative sample measures and grammaticality – Yulia Rodina (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & MultiLing, University of Oslo)
- Long-term effects of reduced input on HL ultimate attainment – Tugba Karayayla (University of Essex)
- Question sentence final particles in English-speaking Chinese heritage learners’ Chinese grammars – Shanshan Yan (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Why should formal linguistic approaches to heritage language acquisition be linked to heritage language pedagogies? – Fatih Bayram (University of Reading & Ordu University), Josh de la Rosa-Prada (Texas Tech University, USA), Diego Pascual y Cabo (Texas Tech University) & Jason Rothman (University of Reading & UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
- V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: The vulnerability of syntax vs. pragmatic structure – Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway & NTNU) & Terje Lohndal (NTNU & UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
- Heritage speakers and bilingual language processing – Shi Zhang (University of Reading)
- Gender and attrition in North American Icelandic: A case study – Sigríður Mjöll Björnsdóttir (University of Maryland)