The 16th meeting of the Heritage Language Research Institute was held at UW-Madison this year, organized by Lang Sci professor Joe Salmons and Director Rajiv Rao. The Institute, directed by Maria Polinsky of the University of Maryland, brings together researchers, educators, and other stakeholders interested in heritage language studies, education, and maintenance.
Several UW-Madison faculty and grad students presented at this year’s event, including:
- Chloris Lowe and Laura Redeagle, Panel Discussion on Indigenous Languages
- Katherine Ward, “Yanka Shimi (‘Useless Language’) and Mishki Shimi (‘Rich Language’): Educators’ Conflicting Language Ideologies toward Kichwa-Influenced Spanish in Ecuador”
- Martiniano Etchart, “Revisiting and addressing language ideologies: The case of Spanish in the U.S.”
- B Dowling, “Prosodic prominence perception in American heritage speakers of Chinese”
- Rachyl Hietpas, “Stop stability in heritage Dutch”
