The Missing Link: Perceived Accents in German / Russian School Children

. Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00 pm to 3:30 pmOnline, via Zoom To register:  https://www.spanport.utoronto.ca/events/kupisch . . […]

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On Bilingual Language Acquisition

. Friday, March 19, 20212:00 – 3:30 PMDetails announced soon . . .  […]

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Children’s Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation

. Friday, March 5, 20212:00 – 3:30 PMDetails announced soon  . . . . […]

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On the Language of Heritage Speakers

. Friday, February 26, 20212:00 – 3:30 PMDetails announced soon . . . . […]

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¿Niñas y niños bilingües? – Un folleto de promoción comunitaria

Folleto de promoción del bilingüismo en la infancia desarrollado por el Dpto. de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Toronto en colaboración con la organización comunitaria Latin@s en Toronto Si te interesa ver el folleto en mayor resolución, puedes hacer click en la imagen. . […]

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El niño bilingüe: ¿se hace o nace? Procesos y contextos del aprendizaje infantil bilingüe.

. “The bilingual child: born or made” In this Webinar, aimed at parents, teachers, and investigators, Prof. Perez-Leroux talks about important issues about bilingual children. This talk discusses the myths and realities of child bilingualism, the advantages and challenges of raising a child bilingually in the Canadian context, the characteristics of bilingual language in typical […]

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Los hablantes de herencia en este mes de octubre de 2020

. Web Program hosted by Fuerza Latina, celebrating the Hispanic-Latin American Heritage Month, featuring as guests Students from OLAS, Professor Laura Colantoni and Professor Ana Perez-Leroux from the University of Toronto, and talented singer/songwriter Ana Lia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0_Z3_J3oY&feature=emb_err_woyt […]

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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

Abstract Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/a e o/), which may diphthongize in word-boundary vowel sequences. English neutralizes unstressed final vowels and separates across-word vocalic sequences. The realization of gender vowels as schwa, due to cross-linguistic influence, may remain […]

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Gender marking under disguise: phonetics and grammar in Spanish-English bilinguals

Paper presented at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, University of Texas, Austin (held virtually). http://sites.utexas.edu/lsrl50/ Spanish gender is encoded by three vowels (/a e o/) which appear in unstressed final position.This is the same position in which vocalic contrasts are neutralized in English. Word final vowels are often followed by other vowels […]

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