Naomi Nagy (faculty) is giving a talk next week for the Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact at Glendon College, York University: "Cross-generational change in heritage languages in Toronto?" This will be taking place on Wednesday, February 3, from 11 AM to 12 PM. Zoom details can be found at the link.
The Heritage Language Variation and Change project (Nagy 2009, 2011) is based on intergenerational comparisons (i.e. how many generations since the family immigrated to Toronto?) of speakers in language diaspora in Toronto. I will discuss some differences between the results of experimental studies and our variationist sociolinguistic studies based on spontaneous speech. The focus will be on the picture we see of intergenerational differences, as well as differences between homeland versus heritage varieties. In general, greater linguistic stability is illustrated by the variationist approach than experimental methods. The data are from studies of Voice Onset Time (VOT), case marking, and null subject pronoun variation. The languages discussed include Cantonese, Faetar (a Francoprovençal variety spoken in southern Italy), Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian.
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