Heritage Languages at the Crossroads (HL@Cross): cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies (See the full schedule with abstracts via this link)
Monday, May 29th
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Opening/Welcome | |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Prof. Aylin Küntay Koç University | |
| Plenary | Role of Social Interactions in Early Language Learning | |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Break | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Brechje van Osch | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Investigating the linguistic and social effects of the first year of schooling on the grammar of child heritage speakers: focus on Polish heritage children in the UK | Anna Hart, Laura Domínguez, E: Jamieson |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Toward understanding the variability in Turkish heritage language children’s acquisition of evidentiality | Aylin Coskun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Poster session | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Khadij Gharibi | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Characterizing heritage Spanish speakers’ bilingualism: The role of objective, subjective, and language experience measures | Alicia Luque, Bernard Issa, Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, Harriet Bowden, Bryan Koronkiewicz |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Cortical Thickness is Related to Variability in Heritage Bilingual Language Proficiency | My Nguyen, Kelly Vaughn, Hannah Claussenius-Kalman, Pilar Archila-Suerte and Arturo Hernandez |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Nadine Kolb | |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Predictive processing of case-marking cues in Turkish-Dutch bilingual children and adults | Figen Karaca, Susanne Brouwer, Sharon Unsworth, Falk Huettig |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Language Use Modulates Processing of Island Constraints in Heritage Language Speakers | Gita Martohardjono, Michael Johns, Daniela Castillo, Pamela Franciotti, Ilaria Porru |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | The role of INFL in code-switching | Charlotte Pauw, Rodi Laanen, Luis López, M:Carmen Parafita Couto |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Break | |
| Plenary | Prof. Patrick Rebuschat Lancaster University, University of Tübingen | |
| 17:45 – 18:45 | The contribution of cross-situational statistical learning to the study of heritage languages | |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday, May 30th
| Plenary | Dr. Oksana Laleko University of New York at New Paltz | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Rethinking heritage language exceptionalism: Implications from information structure research | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Break | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Yanina Prystauka | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | The Lexicon of Hebrew Heritage Speakers: Modeling a complex network | Clara Fridman, Natalia Meir |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Lexical development in Russian heritage language across different national contexts: Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom | Yulia Rodina, Alexandra Bogoyavlenskaya, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Westergaard |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Language Experience Impacts L2 English Scope Computation | Leeann Stover, Irina Sekerina, Gita Martohardjono |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| Junior Plenaries | Dr. Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Dr. Grazia DiPisa University of Konstanz | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Uncovering Heritage Speakers Online Processing: The case of Heritage Italians in Germany | |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Jiuzhou Hao | |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Prediction and Lexical Interference during sentence processing in Russian Heritage Speakers | Yanina Prystauka, Reinaldo Cabrera Perez, Jason Rothman |
| 15:45 – 16:45 | How categorical is bilingualism? Using a Support Vector Machine to predict the profile of a speaker | Moreno Ignazio Coco, Giuditta Smith, Roberta Spelorzi, Maria Garraffa |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | “Drop it like it’s hot” – a multi-factorial interplay of subject realization in Greek, Russian and Turkish | Onur Özsoy, Vasiliki Rizou, Maria Martynova, Natalia Gagarina, Artemis Alexiadou, Luka Szucsich |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | Break | |
| Plenary | Prof. Cécile De Cat University of Leeds, UiT Arctic University of Norway | |
| 17:15 – 18:15 | What predicts HL proficiency during the first years of formal schooling in the societal language? | |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Closing |