Third factors in Language Design: the view from heritage languages

The workshop Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages will be held in Paris (Inalco) / Zoom on June 6 2025. 

Invited speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro & Sivia Terenghi (University of Utrecht)

Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest)

Program

9:30-9 :45 Welcome and opening

9:45-10 :20 Zetao Xu, Victor Yunan Pan – Interaction of UG and 3F principles in resumptive pronouns: evidence from heritage Chinese in the Netherlands and France

10 :20-10:55 Laura D’Aurizio, Susann Fischer, Natascha Müller – Third-factor principles in multilingual acquisition: the role of inflection for ‘residual’ subject omissions in French multilingual children

10:55-11:55 Invited speakers Roberta D’Alessandro & Silvia Terenghi – 3rd factors in contact: The view from heritage languages 

11:55-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:35 Aylin Coskun Kunduz & Silvina Montrul – Complex syntax in Turkish-American returnees and L2 learners of Turkish residing in Turkey

14:35-15:10 (zoom) Madhusmitha Venkatesan, Pritha Chandra – Third Factor Principles-Motivated Syntactic Doubling: Evidence from Heritage Tamil

15:20-15:55 (zoom) Andrea Calpe Alvarez, Giuseppe Dario Benigno, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Marta Rivera Zurita – Individual Differences in Structural Priming across a continuum of bilingualism

15:55-16:25 Coffee break

16:25-16:50 (zoom) Daniela Nunes de Alvarez Stransky & Renato García-González – Input-based experience and abrupt input change: the case of Mexican Returnee Heritage Speakers  

16:50-17:25 (zoom) Stéphanie Papin – Linguistic Resilience in CODAs: Heritage Sign Language Acquisition and the Third Factor in Bimodal Bilingualism