Schedule of Events

Thursday, Sept. 27— Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn

1:30-2:00 Registration

2:00 Welcome – Susan Welch, Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts

Time / Author(s) / Presentation Title
Session 1 moderator: Ashley Roccamo
2:15 - 2:45 / Joshua Bousquette
University of Wisconsin / Complementizer Agreement in Heritage Varieties of Wisconsin-German
2:45 - 3:15 / Alyson Sewell
University of Wisconsin / The role (or lack thereof) of maintained exposure to and use of a heritage language: Interspeaker syntactic variation in Wisconsin-German narratives
3:15 - 3:45 / Kristin Eide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) & Arnstein Hjelde (Høgskolen i Østfold) / V2 and morphological paradigms in Norwegian varieties spoken in the American Midwest.
3:45 - 4:00 / Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00 / John Lipski
Penn State University / Plenary Talk: The Linguistic Consequences of Moving Next Door: Spanish-Portuguese Mixing in NE Argentina

6:30 –8:00 –Thursday Dinner - India Pavilion. 222 East Calder Way, State College

Friday, Sept. 28 — Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn

Time / Author(s) / Presentation Title
9:00 – 9:30 / Breakfast
Session 2 moderator: Mark Louden
9:30 - 10:00 / Caitlin Y. Ting & Janet G. van Hell
Penn State University / When I’m at the Ortegas’ house, I often start a pensamiento in English and finish it in Spanish:
The effect of socio-contextual information on codeswitches
10:00- 10:30 / Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky & Janet G. van Hell / Sentential codeswitching and the impact of cognate triggering in Spanish-English bilinguals
10:30 - 11:00 / Coffee Break
Session 3 moderator: Nick Henry
11:00 - 11:30 / Marit Westergaard & Merete Anderssen
University of Tromsø / Vulnerable domains in Norwegian heritage language: Word order and definiteness within the DP?
11:30 - 12:00 / Tor Åfarli
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) / A Syntactic Frame Model for the Analysis of Code-Switching Phenomena
12:00 - 12:30 / Arnstein Hjelde
Høgskolen i Østfold / The study on the Norwegian language in America
12:30 - 2:15 / Lunch (on your own)
Session 4 moderator: Joe Salmons
2:15 - 2:45 / Mike Putnam (Penn State University ) & Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (University of Icelandic) / Incomplete acquisition vs. incomplete maintenance – Long-distance binding in North American Icelandic
2:45 - 3:15 / Janne Johannessen (University of Oslo) & Ida Larsson (Gothenburg University) / Embedded Word Order in Heritage Scandinavian
3:15 - 3:45 / Angela Falk
(Uppsala University) / The Discourse of Recollection and the Resources of Swedish and Swenglish in English
3:45 - 4:00 / Coffee Break
Session 5 moderator: Mike Putnam
4:00 - 4:30 / Richard Page
Penn State University / The phonology of English spoken by Pennsylvania German Anabaptists in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
4:30 - 5:00 / Mark Louden
University of Wisconsin / Heritage Language Maintenance and Conservative Religious Communities in North America

Friday evening dinner –Leave Nittany Lion Inn at 5:15 – Jonas Yoder, Rebersburg, Pa.

Saturday, Sept. 29— Assembly Room, Nittany Lion Inn

Time / Author(s) / Presentation Title
9:00 - 9:30 / Breakfast
Session 6 moderator: Joshua Bousquette
9:30 – 10:00 / Laura Walls
UCLA / Negotiating Heritage Epistemics: How Language Experience and Ideologies Affect Interactions
10:00 - 10:30 / Anne Golden & Elizabeth Lanza
University of Oslo / Identity construction and language conceptualization in narratives from Norwegian descendents in the US
10:30 - 11:00 / Siwon Lee
University of Pennsylvania / Multiliteracies in Heritage Language: Online Language Practices of Korean American Youth
11:00 - 11:15 / Coffee Break
Session 7 moderator: Richard Page
11:15 - 11:45 / Katya Rouzina
The Ohio State University / The 4M Model and Russian-English Code-Switching
11:45 - 12:15 / Janne Johannessen, Joel Priestley, Kristin Hagen, &
Eirik Olsen
University of Oslo / A Corpus of American Norwegian Speech
12:15 - 12:45 / Luiza Newlin-Łukowicz
New York University / Substrate effects and ethnicity: The case of TH-stopping in New York City

12:45 – 2:45pm – Lunch (on your own)

2:45pm - 3:00pm – Transportation to Mt. Nittany leaves from the Nittany Lion Inn

7:00 - 9:00pm - Banquet, Faculty-Staff Club, Nittany Lion Inn

Sunday, Sept. 30

End of workshop