BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17004-ecfb868d1a5c68c70de197149adad1f4@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T112334Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T103000 SUMMARY:Cole Callen DESCRIPTION:\n“Examining Grammatical Variation in English-Dominant Herit age Speakers of Spanish: Explanations From Production and Comprehension” \n\nCole Callen\, Graduate Student in the Department of Spanish\, Italia n\, and Portuguese at Penn State\n\nFriday\, February 17\, 9:00–10:30 a. m. EST\, in 127 Moore Building and virtually via Zoom\n\nDue to its hete rogeneous nature\, bilingual language development often leads to variabl e outcomes. The case of heritage speakers—that is\, bilingual speakers w hose first and home language is a minoritized language in the society in which they were raised—represents a unique instance of bilingual acquis ition. In some (but not all) cases\, the environmental complexity of HSs ’ context of acquisition leads to divergence in their knowledge and use of grammatical patterns in the heritage language compared to baseline sp eakers. In this talk\, Cole Callen will describe (preliminary) findings from three separate experiments that investigate the production and comp rehension of a variable grammatical form—differential object marking—in HSs of Spanish. Language-internal variation has not been the focus of re search on heritage speakers\, although recent calls for more attention t o this topic have been made (e.g.\, Flores &\; Rinke\, 2020\; Nagy &a mp\; Gadanidis\, 2021). The results from two production experiments lead us to two primary findings: (1) there is great inter-speaker variabilit y in grammatical production in the heritage language\; and (2) the varia ble grammatical patterns of HSs also have language-internal explanations . Data from a self-paced listening task suggest that HSs may process var iable grammatical constructions differently from Spanish-dominant biling uals. While both groups of speakers show no sensitivity to the different ial object marker in one condition\, the HSs show more variable comprehe nsion across conditions. Thus\, linguistic variation present in baseline Spanish speakers may lead to further variation in HSs of Spanish. The f indings from these three studies will be discussed in light of newer pro posals for bilingual grammars\, especially that of bilingual alignments (Sánchez\, 2019).\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu. edu/event/cole-callen/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Examin ing Grammatical Variation in English-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spani sh: Explanations From Production and Comprehension”

Cole Callen, Graduate Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State

Friday, February 17, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EST, in 127 Moore Building and virtually via Zoom

Due to its heterogeneous nature, bilingual language developmen t often leads to variable outcomes. The case of heritage speakers—that i s, bilingual speakers whose first and home language is a minoritized lan guage in the society in which they were raised—represents a unique insta nce of bilingual acquisition. In some (but not all) cases, the environme ntal complexity of HSs’ context of acquisition leads to divergence in th eir knowledge and use of grammatical patterns in the heritage language c ompared to baseline speakers. In this talk, Cole Callen will describe (p reliminary) findings from three separate experiments that investigate th e production and comprehension of a variable grammatical form—differenti al object marking—in HSs of Spanish. Language-internal variation has not been the focus of research on heritage speakers, although recent calls for more attention to this topic have been made (e.g., Flores & Rink e, 2020; Nagy & Gadanidis, 2021). The results from two production ex periments lead us to two primary findings: (1) there is great inter-spea ker variability in grammatical production in the heritage language; and (2) the variable grammatical patterns of HSs also have language-internal explanations. Data from a self-paced listening task suggest that HSs ma y process variable grammatical constructions differently from Spanish-do minant bilinguals. While both groups of speakers show no sensitivity to the differential object marker in one condition, the HSs show more varia ble comprehension across conditions. Thus, linguistic variation present in baseline Spanish speakers may lead to further variation in HSs of Spa nish. The findings from these three studies will be discussed in light o f newer proposals for bilingual grammars, especially that of bilingual a lignments (Sánchez, 2019).

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu /event/cole-callen/

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