Schedule

Week # Dates Task
1 Nov 9 -15 Meet & Greet; reading about heritage speakers - Montrul (2016)
2 Nov 16 -22 Presentation about heritage speakers - Montrul (2016); reading about referential expressions - Vogels et al. (2019) & Azar et al. (2020)
3 Nov 23 -29 Presentations about referential expressions - Vogels et al. (2019) & Azar et al. (2020); reading about noun phrase modification - Biber et al. (2009) & Parkinson & Musgrave (2014); reading about register variation - Biber & Conrad (2009) & Polinsky (2018)
4 Nov 30 - Dec 6 Presentation about noun phrase modification - Biber et al. (2009) & Parkinson & Musgrave (2014); presentation abour register variation - Biber & Conrad (2009) & Polinsky (2018); reading the annotation manual, cross-annotating 2 speakers
5 Dec 7 - 13 Comparing the cross-annotations, resolving differences
6 Dec 14 -20 Annotating 5 speakers
7 Jan 4 - 10 Annotating 5 speakers
8 Jan 11 -17 Annotating 5 speakers
9 Jan 18 - 24 Annotating 5 speakers
10 Jan 25 - 31 Annotating 5 speakers
11 Feb 1 - 7 Data anaysis
12 Feb 8 - 14 Data anaysis
13 Feb 15 - 21 Data anaysis
14 Feb 22 - 28 Data anaysis
15 March 1 - 7 Discussion, final project preparation
16 March 8 -14 Discussion, final project preparation
17 March 15 - 21 Discussion, final project preparation
18 March 22 - 28 Discussion, final project preparation

Readings

Obligatory Readings

  1. Montrul, S. (2016). Heritage languages and heritage speakers. In The Acquisition of heritage languages (pp. 13-40). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139030502.002
  2. Vogels, J., Krahmer, E., & Maes, A. (2019). Accessibility and reference production: The interplay between linguistic and non-Linguistic factors. In J. Gundel, & B. Abbott (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of reference. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687305.013.16
  3. Azar, Z., Özyürek, A., & Backus, A. (2020). Turkish-Dutch bilinguals maintain language-specific reference tracking strategies in elicited narratives. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24(2), 376–409. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006919838375
  4. Biber, D., Grieve, J., & Iberri-Shea, G. (2009). Noun phrase modification. In G. Rohdenburg, & J. Schlüter (Eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English (pp. 182-193). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551970.010
  5. Parkinson, J., & Musgrave, J. (2014). Development of noun phrase complexity in the writing of English for Academic Purposes students. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 14, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2013.12.001
  6. Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Registers, genres, and styles: Fundamental varieties of language. In Register, genre, and style (pp. 1-28). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511814358.001
  7. Polinsky, M. (2018). Social pragmatics. In Heritage languages and their speakers (pp. 323-327). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107252349

Optional Readings