3rd Heritage Language Syntax brainstorming meeting

The 3rd HLS brainstorming meeting will take place on May 23 at 2:30 pm CET (time could change slightly).

The meeting will take place on Zoom as usual (link below) and will be moderated by Liliana Sánchez (UIC).

The issues we will discuss are:

o    HLs show very clearly that there is a continuum between processing (and frequency effects) and syntactic structural change.

§  How do we handle frequency effects?

§  How do we handle differences between acceptability and production?

o    How do we present the continuum which is clear in our field to syntacticians who assume a categorical distinction between processing and structural change?

o    How do we handle the continuum, from the viewpoint of 

§  Modularity theory

§  Acquisition

§  Contact linguistics

§  Attrition or innovation?

o    How do we incorporate other possible variables are lexical access, inhibitory control, and self-perception as a member of the speech community.

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More information on Heritage Language Syntax can be found on this website.