Schedule
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Ojibwe Ballroom, Davies Center
12-12:45: Registration (with coffee and light refreshments)
12:45-1: Welcome. Rodd Freitag, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
1-1:30: Mike Putnam & Maike Rocker (Pennsylvania State University), English-origin aspectual verbs in Pennsylvania Dutch: The case of start(e)
1:30-2: Nora Vosburg (Pennsylvania State University), Change in life and language: Mennonite communities in southwestern Kansas
2-2:30: Karoline Kühl, Jan Heegård Petersen, Gert Foget Hansen, Jacob Thøgersen (University of Copenhagen), Linguistic proficiency in immigrant and heritage speakers of Danish in Argentina and North America: A quantitative approach
2:30-3: Coffee break
3-3:30: Robert Klosinski (Pennsylvania State University), Maintaining Distinct Phonologies Despite Phonetic Influence: The Case of Misionero German/Portuguese Bilinguals
3:30-4: Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ea[s]y come, ea[z]y go? Laryngeal phonetics and phonology of Norwegian English
4-4:30: Arnstein Hjelde (Østfold University College), Language change over a lifespan: Einar Haugen’s last living speaker
12:45-1: Welcome. Rodd Freitag, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
1-1:30: Mike Putnam & Maike Rocker (Pennsylvania State University), English-origin aspectual verbs in Pennsylvania Dutch: The case of start(e)
1:30-2: Nora Vosburg (Pennsylvania State University), Change in life and language: Mennonite communities in southwestern Kansas
2-2:30: Karoline Kühl, Jan Heegård Petersen, Gert Foget Hansen, Jacob Thøgersen (University of Copenhagen), Linguistic proficiency in immigrant and heritage speakers of Danish in Argentina and North America: A quantitative approach
2:30-3: Coffee break
3-3:30: Robert Klosinski (Pennsylvania State University), Maintaining Distinct Phonologies Despite Phonetic Influence: The Case of Misionero German/Portuguese Bilinguals
3:30-4: Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ea[s]y come, ea[z]y go? Laryngeal phonetics and phonology of Norwegian English
4-4:30: Arnstein Hjelde (Østfold University College), Language change over a lifespan: Einar Haugen’s last living speaker
Friday, October 26, 2018
Ojibwe Ballroom, Davies Center
9:30-10: Coffee and light refreshments
10-10:30: Kristin Melum Eide & Arnstein Hjelde (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Østhold University College), Norwegian bilinguals in America and their language change: real, apparent, attrition?
10:30-11: Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir (University of Akureyri), The two perfects of Icelandic
11-11:30: Sigridur Bjoernsdottir, Marit Westergaard (Arctic University of Norway, Tromso), The acquisition and attrition of grammatical gender in Heritage Icelandic
11:30-12: Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki), Functions and social meanings of agreement marker ja in Sanpete County English
12-1: Lunch
1-1:30: Joshua Bousquette (University of Georgia), Left-dislocation in Wisconsin-Heritage German: evidence for diffusion of non-standard syntax
1:30-2: Emily Bernate (St. Edward’s University), The use of modals to compensate for tense and mood simplification
2-2:30: Steffen Krogh (Aarhus Universitet), Recent German features in Haredi Satmar Yiddish
2:30-3: Samantha Litty (Bloomsburg University), Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: a sociolinguistic analysis of German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters, 1864-1865
3-4: Conference reception
4-5: Plenary. Barbara Bullock (University of Texas), Modeling patterns of mixing in heritage languages
10-10:30: Kristin Melum Eide & Arnstein Hjelde (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Østhold University College), Norwegian bilinguals in America and their language change: real, apparent, attrition?
10:30-11: Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir (University of Akureyri), The two perfects of Icelandic
11-11:30: Sigridur Bjoernsdottir, Marit Westergaard (Arctic University of Norway, Tromso), The acquisition and attrition of grammatical gender in Heritage Icelandic
11:30-12: Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki), Functions and social meanings of agreement marker ja in Sanpete County English
12-1: Lunch
1-1:30: Joshua Bousquette (University of Georgia), Left-dislocation in Wisconsin-Heritage German: evidence for diffusion of non-standard syntax
1:30-2: Emily Bernate (St. Edward’s University), The use of modals to compensate for tense and mood simplification
2-2:30: Steffen Krogh (Aarhus Universitet), Recent German features in Haredi Satmar Yiddish
2:30-3: Samantha Litty (Bloomsburg University), Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: a sociolinguistic analysis of German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters, 1864-1865
3-4: Conference reception
4-5: Plenary. Barbara Bullock (University of Texas), Modeling patterns of mixing in heritage languages
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Ojibwe Ballroom, Davies Center
9-9:30: Coffee and light refreshments
9:30-10:45: Poster session
12-1: Lunch
1-1:30: Kelly Biers & Ellen Osterhaus (University of North Carolina at Asheville & University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), Quantity-to-quality contrast shift and phonemic merger in Wisconsin Walloon high front vowels
1:30-2 Laura Moquin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Language ideology in Norwegian-American newspapers
2-2:30: Mirva Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Language shift and verticalization in Finnish American communities of the Upper Midwest
9:30-10:45: Poster session
- Kristin Melum Eide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Overlap, convergence and hybrid rules in a heritage language
- Rachyl Hietpas & Joshua R. Brown (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), Postvernacular Dutch in Wisconsin
- Robert Kleih (Europa-Universität Flensburg), North Frisian in the US: an under-researched heritage language
- Olga Lovick (First Nations University of Canada), Language ideologies and practices in young heritage speakers of German in Saskatchewan: an exploratory study
- Jan Heegård Petersen, Karoline Kühl, Gert Foget Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Code-switching in Heritage Danish in North America and Argentina: inventory, frequency, and functions
- Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University), Gender and case in New Ulm German: speaker strategies
- Fabiola Varela-Garciá (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), Isleño Spanish language preservation in Louisiana: 227 years of abandonment, language contact, and invisible immigration
12-1: Lunch
1-1:30: Kelly Biers & Ellen Osterhaus (University of North Carolina at Asheville & University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), Quantity-to-quality contrast shift and phonemic merger in Wisconsin Walloon high front vowels
1:30-2 Laura Moquin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Language ideology in Norwegian-American newspapers
2-2:30: Mirva Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Language shift and verticalization in Finnish American communities of the Upper Midwest