Labbies were active at this weekend’s 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022): PhD student Megan Brown gave the talk “Regressive cross-linguistic influence in multilingual speech program: The primacy of typological similarity” (co-authored with Prof. Chang) in the Friday morning Bilingualism session, and PhD student Felix Kpogo gave the poster “A vowel shift in the Twi harmony system: A case of urban Twi speakers” in the Friday morning poster session. PhD student Danielle Dionne was also in attendance!
Abstract: Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages. This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, is written in a highly accessible way featuring activities, and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods. This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.
Congratulations to Meixian (Vicky) Li, whose abstract with Profs. Yao and Chang was accepted to the 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 2025), to be held this coming December in Guangzhou! The title of their poster is “Cross-linguistic social perception of creaky voice by Mandarin-English bilinguals”.
