WORKSHOP ON IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES IN THE AMERICAS
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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

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

Saturday, October 10, 2020
10-10:30 Heritage language home and community: Gendered division of labor and language shift, Joshua Bousquette & David Natvig

10:30-11  Immigrant monolingualism and verticalization in 1910: A comparative view, Joseph Salmons

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

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

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 Grammatical gender in North American Danish, Jan Heegård Petersen

13-14 Close and business meeting
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