WILA 12 Schedule
University of Helsinki, virtual format
October 6-9, 2021
All times are Eastern European Time (UTC + 3)
October 6-9, 2021
All times are Eastern European Time (UTC + 3)
Wednesday, October 6
16:15-16:30
Conference opening
16:30-17:30
LIVE Keynote I (chaired by David Natvig)
17:30-18:00
Break: Mini class in Finnish, hosted by Mirva Johnson
18:00-18:45
Session 1 (chaired by Joshua Bousquette)
16:15-16:30
Conference opening
16:30-17:30
LIVE Keynote I (chaired by David Natvig)
- Pia Lane (University of Oslo), Caught unawares? Language shift and internalised ideologies
17:30-18:00
Break: Mini class in Finnish, hosted by Mirva Johnson
18:00-18:45
Session 1 (chaired by Joshua Bousquette)
- Angela Hoffman (Uppsala University) and Josh Brown (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), Ideology and språkfrågan paths leading to language shift in four Swedish-American congregations
- Reda Mohammed (Illinois State University), Arabic as a heritage language and the ideologies of shame and blame
- Kathryn Remlinger (Grand Valley State University) and Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki), "Yah for yes is ok": Ideological functions and meanings of yah [jɑː] in two heritage language communities
Thursday, October 7
15:15-15:45
Session 2 (chaired by Kelly Biers)
15:45-16:15
Break: Live from the Herring Festival, hosted by Elizabeth Peterson
16:15-16:45
Session 3 (chaired by Eeva Sippola)
15:15-15:45
Session 2 (chaired by Kelly Biers)
- Samantha Litty (Europa-Universität Flensburg), German-language press in South Dakota, 1890-1918
- Joshua Bousquette (University of Georgia), Oblique case syncretism in Wisconsin heritage German: Towards a formal analysis
15:45-16:15
Break: Live from the Herring Festival, hosted by Elizabeth Peterson
16:15-16:45
Session 3 (chaired by Eeva Sippola)
- Utkan Boyacioglu and Mireille Tremblay (Université de Montréal), Communities of practice and lexical variation in the Montréal Turkish community
- Rosti Vana (Sam Houston State University), The university Spanish heritage language mixed classes: Sociopolitics, attitudes, and ideologies
Friday, October 8
14:15-15:00
Session 4 (chaired by Kari Kinn)
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Session 5 (chaired by Elizabeth Peterson)
16:30-17:00
Break: Immigrant tour of Helsinki, hosted by Roosa Pöllänen and Kayleigh Karinen
17:00-17:30
Session 6 (posters in three simultaneous zoom rooms)
Room 1
Break
18:00-19:00
LIVE Keynote II (chaired by Elizabeth Peterson)
14:15-15:00
Session 4 (chaired by Kari Kinn)
- Arnstein Hjelde and Camilla Bjørke (Østfold University College), The Nynorsk language in America
- Alexander Lykke (Østfold University College), When does change occur in moribund heritage varieties? A diachronic study of American Norwegian tense
- Arnstein Hjelde and Alexander Lykke (Østfold University College), Young versus old speakers of heritage Norwegian: Novel data to solve methodological problems
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Session 5 (chaired by Elizabeth Peterson)
- Marie Lund Stokka (University of Bergen), Grammatical gender in Latin American Norwegian
- Michael T. Putnam (Penn State University), Terje Lohndal (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) and Åshild Søfteland (Østfold University College), Syntactic change or cross-linguistic influence?: 'Som'-less relative clauses in American Norwegian
- Yvonne van Baal (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) and David Natvig (University of Oslo/University of Stavanger), Ka e de mot avleiing? Derivational morphology in American Norwegian-English contact
- Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir (University of Akureyri), The passive in North American Icelandic
16:30-17:00
Break: Immigrant tour of Helsinki, hosted by Roosa Pöllänen and Kayleigh Karinen
17:00-17:30
Session 6 (posters in three simultaneous zoom rooms)
Room 1
- Jennifer Shen and Yunchuan Chen (Duke University), Inverse scope reading in Q-Neg sentences in heritage Chinese
- Sunny Park-Johnson (DePaul University) and Hanae Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago), Korean Heritage Children and the Linguistic Strategies for Overcoming Low Proficiency
- Jan Heegård Petersen (University of Copenhagen), Enhanced co-articulatory labialization of /ts/ in Argentine Danish
- Artemis Alexiadou and Vasiliki Rizou (Humboldt University of Berlin), Relative Clauses in Heritage Greek
- Izolda Wolski-Moskoff (University of Illinois at Chicago), Mój tato skończył technikum kontraktorskie: Lexicon in Polish heritage language
- Lucas Löff Machado and Sebastian Kürschner, Multilingualism and language ideologies in German-speaking communities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Maria de Fátima de Almeida Baia, Edísio Pereira da Silva Luz Jr., Itana Rodrigues Lopes Nascimento and Laís Rodrigues Silva Bockorni, Hayeren: Armenian linguistic heritage in Brazil
- Kari Kinn, Marie Lund Stokka and Verónica Pájaro, A new approach to heritage Norwegian: Norwegian in Latin America
Break
18:00-19:00
LIVE Keynote II (chaired by Elizabeth Peterson)
- Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam), Urban Heritage varieties
Saturday, October 9
14:30-15:15
Session 7 (panel, chaired by Joe Salmons)
15:15-15:45
Break: WILA Kahoot competition
15:45-16:15
Session 8, chaired by Mike Putnam
16:15-16:30
Conference closing
14:30-15:15
Session 7 (panel, chaired by Joe Salmons)
- Rachyl Hietpas and Charlotte Vanhecke (University of Wisconsin-Madison), How do you feel about Houdoe?: Dutch and Flemish language, culture, and identity in North America
- Rose Fisher (Penn State University), Varieties of Pennsylvania Dutch: Post-vernacular or not so simple?
- Maike Rocker (Penn State University), All that remains: Language and identity in a postvernacular heritage community
15:15-15:45
Break: WILA Kahoot competition
15:45-16:15
Session 8, chaired by Mike Putnam
- Charlotte Vanhecke and Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison), American Double Dutch and verticalization
- Maike Rocker (Penn State University) and Nora Vosburg (St. Olaf College), The versatile life of 'doon(en)'
16:15-16:30
Conference closing
