PSUxLing10, Spring 2024
9:00am – 10:30am: Plenary Speaker John Lipski, Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
(Spanish) linguistics in (and for) bilingual America: PSUxLING and beyond
Undergraduate research in linguistics is making exciting contributions in confronting some of the discipline’s most intractable issues. This can be eloquently demonstrated by focusing attention on Spanish and its interfaces in the country with the world’s second-largest Spanish-speaking population (the United States). The presentation covers both ongoing and potential lines of research on Spanish and its bilingual ecology in the U. S., together with resources and methods for studying written and spoken language and confronting misconceptions regarding (especially Spanish-English) bilingualism. Although highlighting Spanish, in line with the PSUxLING tradition and the linguistic demographics of the United States, everything except the language-specific examples holds for almost all research projects that deal with language contact, bilingualism, and heritage language.
10:30am – 12pm: Lab Tours/ Break
12pm – 1:00pm: Lunch, 227 Burrowes Building
Information about poster formatting can be found here.
Venue
Events will be hosted in the Foster Auditorium and the Burrowes Building at the Penn State University, University Park Campus.
For Google Map links, see: Foster Auditorium & Burrowes Building
For more information about the history of the buildings and the department and centers housed in them: Explore Campus | College of Liberal Arts