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April 23, 2026 at 3:45pm 

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Mai 07, 2026 at 3:45pm 

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Mai 21, 2026 at 3:45pm 

Title: Using diachronic change to predict variation in heritage languages

Speaker: Sol Lago (Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures - Goethe Universtiy - Frankfurt; invited by Shanley Allen)

Abstract:  Can processes of language change help explain variability in heritage languages? This talk addresses this question through two Romance phenomena: null objects in Portuguese and clitic doubling in Spanish. I present behavioral and eye-tracking evidence comparing heritage speakers of European Spanish and Portuguese with speakers of varieties that are diachronically more advanced with respect to these phenomena—Argentinian Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. The experiments test whether the real-time processing profiles of heritage speakers mirror those observed in diachronically more advanced varieties. By integrating methods and perspectives from psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, the talk advances a different view of heritage language variability as part of broader trajectories of grammatical change.

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Mai 28, 2026 at 3:45pm 

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Speaker: Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen

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June 11, 2026 at 3:45pm 

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Juni 18, 2026 at 3:45pm 

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