WILA 11 Schedule
All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Thursday, October 8, 2020
10-10:30 Welcome, Regine Criser (Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures)
10:30-11 Reading skills among young Norwegian American heritage speakers in the early 1900s, Arnstein Hjelde & Camilla Bjørke
11-11:30 Language as part of national identity: Icelandic in the newspaper Framfari, Kristín Jóhannsdóttir
11:30-12 Break
12-12:30 Laryngeal contrast in Heritage Dutch, Charlotte E. Vanhecke
12:30-13 Indigenous bilingualism and language shift: Heritage language speakers in Mexico, Stanislav Mulík, Mark Amengual, Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz
13-13:30 Immigrant monolingualism and verticalization in 1910: A comparative view, Joseph Salmons
10-10:30 Welcome, Regine Criser (Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures)
10:30-11 Reading skills among young Norwegian American heritage speakers in the early 1900s, Arnstein Hjelde & Camilla Bjørke
11-11:30 Language as part of national identity: Icelandic in the newspaper Framfari, Kristín Jóhannsdóttir
11:30-12 Break
12-12:30 Laryngeal contrast in Heritage Dutch, Charlotte E. Vanhecke
12:30-13 Indigenous bilingualism and language shift: Heritage language speakers in Mexico, Stanislav Mulík, Mark Amengual, Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz
13-13:30 Immigrant monolingualism and verticalization in 1910: A comparative view, Joseph Salmons
Friday, October 9, 2020
10-10:30 Historical sociolinguistic contexts: Documenting networks of German-American letter collections, Samantha Litty
10:30-11 Plural verb marking in historical Swiss German heritage data, Anita Auer
11-11:30 The influence of literary practice on language maintenance: Evidence from the Ostfriesen Zeitung and a reader's diary, Maike Rocker
11:30-12 Break
12-13 Plenary, Encountering the unfamiliar: New world immigrants and the linguistic negotiation of the exotic, Kevin J. Rottet
13-13:30 Networking and social time
10-10:30 Historical sociolinguistic contexts: Documenting networks of German-American letter collections, Samantha Litty
10:30-11 Plural verb marking in historical Swiss German heritage data, Anita Auer
11-11:30 The influence of literary practice on language maintenance: Evidence from the Ostfriesen Zeitung and a reader's diary, Maike Rocker
11:30-12 Break
12-13 Plenary, Encountering the unfamiliar: New world immigrants and the linguistic negotiation of the exotic, Kevin J. Rottet
13-13:30 Networking and social time
Saturday, October 10, 2020
10-10:30 Heritage language home and community: Gendered division of language and language shift, Joshua Bousquette & David Natvig
10:30-11 Grammatical gender in North American Danish, Jan Heegård Petersen
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 US Spanish under a morphological approach to discourse, Jose Sequeros-Valle
12-12:30 "We were really, really praying for it that we would get Trump" -- Politicalness as an indicator of sociocultural shift among recent Mennonite immigrants, Nora Vosburg
12:30-13:30 Networking and social time
10-10:30 Heritage language home and community: Gendered division of language and language shift, Joshua Bousquette & David Natvig
10:30-11 Grammatical gender in North American Danish, Jan Heegård Petersen
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 US Spanish under a morphological approach to discourse, Jose Sequeros-Valle
12-12:30 "We were really, really praying for it that we would get Trump" -- Politicalness as an indicator of sociocultural shift among recent Mennonite immigrants, Nora Vosburg
12:30-13:30 Networking and social time
Thursday, October 15, 2020
10-11:30 Corpus of American Nordic Speech Panel in memory of Janne Bondi Johannessen (Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian, Kari Kinn & Ida Larsson; Variation and change in the tense morphology of American Heritage Norwegian, Alexander K. Lykke; Variation and change of the American Norwegian back vowel chain shift over time, David Natvig; New data on language change: Compositional definiteness in American Norwegian, Yvonne van Baal)
11:30-12 Break
12-12:30 The role of language socialization in Arabic heritage language maintenance / shift in the US, Reda Mohammed
12:30-13 Language and identity: The case of North American Icelandic, Laura Moquin & Kirsten Wolf
13-13:30 Networking and social time
10-11:30 Corpus of American Nordic Speech Panel in memory of Janne Bondi Johannessen (Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian, Kari Kinn & Ida Larsson; Variation and change in the tense morphology of American Heritage Norwegian, Alexander K. Lykke; Variation and change of the American Norwegian back vowel chain shift over time, David Natvig; New data on language change: Compositional definiteness in American Norwegian, Yvonne van Baal)
11:30-12 Break
12-12:30 The role of language socialization in Arabic heritage language maintenance / shift in the US, Reda Mohammed
12:30-13 Language and identity: The case of North American Icelandic, Laura Moquin & Kirsten Wolf
13-13:30 Networking and social time
Friday, October 16, 2020
10-10:30 Heritage Swedish across the lifespan in a Minnesota family, Josh Brown & Angela Hoffman
10:30-11 Plurals in Argentine Hunsrik German: A case of allomorphic restructuring, Robert Klosinski & B. Richard Page
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 Cross-linguistic influence in the online processing of Turkish post-verbal word order variations by Turkish-English heritage bilinguals in Canada, Gözde Mercan
12-12:30 Accusative clitic strategies in Mosquito Coast Spanish, Madeline Critchfield & Chad Howe
12:30-13 Particle verbs as a "first phase" phenomenon: Evidence from Heritage German, Andrew Hoffman & Mike Putnam
13-13:30 Networking and social time
10-10:30 Heritage Swedish across the lifespan in a Minnesota family, Josh Brown & Angela Hoffman
10:30-11 Plurals in Argentine Hunsrik German: A case of allomorphic restructuring, Robert Klosinski & B. Richard Page
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 Cross-linguistic influence in the online processing of Turkish post-verbal word order variations by Turkish-English heritage bilinguals in Canada, Gözde Mercan
12-12:30 Accusative clitic strategies in Mosquito Coast Spanish, Madeline Critchfield & Chad Howe
12:30-13 Particle verbs as a "first phase" phenomenon: Evidence from Heritage German, Andrew Hoffman & Mike Putnam
13-13:30 Networking and social time
Saturday, October 17, 2020
10-10:30 "Rotkohl...but I think this is German" -- postvernacular identity in two North Frisian immigrant communities in the US, Robert Kleih
10:30-11 "Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland": Preliminary postvernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German, Joshua Bousquette & Samantha Litty
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 Pomeranian in Wisconsin and Brazil, Ryan Dux
12-12:30 Plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch, Rose Fisher, Katharina S. Schuhmann, Mike Putnam
12:30-13:30 Close and business meeting
10-10:30 "Rotkohl...but I think this is German" -- postvernacular identity in two North Frisian immigrant communities in the US, Robert Kleih
10:30-11 "Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland": Preliminary postvernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German, Joshua Bousquette & Samantha Litty
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12 Pomeranian in Wisconsin and Brazil, Ryan Dux
12-12:30 Plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch, Rose Fisher, Katharina S. Schuhmann, Mike Putnam
12:30-13:30 Close and business meeting
