09:30

Opening

10:00

Jan Heegård Petersen
(University of Copenhagen)

The First Steps Toward a Phonology of American Danish

10:30

Arnstein Hjelde
(Østfold University College)

The Integration of English Loanwords in American Norwegian

11:00

Break

11:30

Khanin Chaiphet
(Queens College/City University of New York)

The Status of Inverse Scope in Thai: A Comparison between Native and Heritage Speakers 

12:00

Sunny Park-Johnson
(DePaul University)

Heritage Korean: The Attrition and Retention of Transitivity Alternation

12:30

Lunch

02:00

Keynote: Netta Avineri
(Monterey Institute of International Studies)

“Not really nostalgia because I didn’t have it the first time”:  The ‘Heritage Narratives’ of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members

03:00

Holger Hopp & Michael Putnam
(Pennsylvania State University & University of Mannheim)

Word order in a moribund variety of heritage German

03:30-05.00
Coffee
and
posters

Hyoun-A Joo, Richard Page & Lara Schwarz: (Pennsylvania State University ):
The loss of a phonological contrast in a moribund heritage language: The merger of /a/ - /ɔ/ in Moundridge Schweitzer German

Karen Roesch (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis):
The alveolar trill in Texas Alsatian

Tammie Tran (University of California – Irvine):
Integrating Social and Cultural Issues in Vietnamese Contextualized Grammar Lessons

Sarah Benor (Hebrew Union College):
Postvernacular Ladino at Sephardic Adventure Camp

Dena Afrasiab (University of Texas)i:
Come, Let's Wrestle: Language and the Struggle for Authority in 'Iranian Vines’

Karoline Kühl, Jan Heegård Petersen, Anna Sofie Hartling (University of Copenhagen):
Documenting Argentina Danish: Discussion of methods of fieldwork and data sampling in little known rural communities south of Buenos Aires

Janne Bondi Johannessen & Ida Larsson
(University of Oslo)

Pronouns and gender in American Heritage Norwegian and Swedish

10:00

Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology & UiT, The Arctic University of Norway)

Gender Attrition in American Norwegian Heritage Language

10:30

Maren Berg Grimstad, Brita Ramsevik Riksem, Tor A. Åfarli & Terje Lohndal
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

The inadequacy of feature-based lexicalist theories: A case-study of American Norwegian

11:00

Break

11:30

Joshua Bousquette
(University of Georgia)

You take the low road and I’ll take the high road: Variation in Agreement Structure in Wisconsin Heritage German

12:00

Michael Putnam & Lara Schwarz
(Pennsylvania State University )

Raising and Control Predicates in Heritage German

12:30

Lunch

02:30

Hyoun-A Joo
(Pennsylvania State University )

Breaking up (Verb) Clusters: The Lack of Verbal Clusters in Moundridge Schweitzer German

03:00

Karoline Kühl
(University of Copenhagen)

V2 and non-V2 in American Danish Declarative Main Clauses: When, How, and Why?

03:30

Seth Ronquillo
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Interference of the Second Language in the Acquisition of Tagalog Word Order in Children

04:00

Break

04:30

Franny Brogan & Bryan Kirschen
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Contact, Assimilation, and Language Endangerment: The Case of Judeo-Spanish in the United States

09:30

Celia Zamora
(Georgetown University)

Utilizing Elicited Imitation Tasks in Order to Measure Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Proficiency

10:30

Break

11:00

Steffen Krogh
(Aarhus University)

Yiddish and English in Contact: The Case of Haredi Satmar Yiddish

11:30

Joe Salmons
(University of Wisconsin)

Heritage German Case Loss and German Case Acquisition